In a landmark gesture that transcends national rivalries, Brazil will honor Argentina’s Lionel Messi at Rio de Janeiro’s ...

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The once inconceivable notion of a World Cup played on African soil, in ultra-modern stadiums beamed live to soccer fans in all corners of the globe will become a reality on Friday.

Pele's trips to Nigeria and the Democratic Republic ... Pelé was always a proponent of African progress at the Fifa World Cup tournaments. His apocryphal prediction in the mid-1970s that an ...

Neymar became Brazil's outright all-time top goal-scorer after breaking the record held by the legendary Pele. In a 5-1 victory over Bolivia in World Cup 2026 qualifying, the 32-year-old scored ...

Pakistan’s former hockey international of the early 1980s, Major Peerzada has been regularly organising functions to honour ...

Brazil icon Zico fits the bill of never having been eligible to win the Ballon d'Or, as both someone whose career was over by 1995 and played predominantly outside Europe.

From the days of Pele to the modern teams of Ronaldo and ... seeing Brazil stuck in fifth in the CONMEBOL qualifying table for the 2026 World Cup after the September internationals was a glaring ...

“That whole moment was sportswashing distilled,” he says, having been chief football writer at the Independent since 2017.

while André and Jordan played at the 2014 World Cup. Abedi Ayew was born into a family in the town of Kibi and grew up in the town of Dome at the northern outskirts of the city Accra. Abedi Pele ...

"I just had the chance to read a quote from Pele in the building who said that ... England, however, have not won the World Cup, or any other major trophy, since 1966 and Tuchel said it was ...

Ireland vs New Zealand is at Aviva Stadium on Friday night, November 8. This game kicks off at 8.10pm. The game is being ...