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A look at the 10 greatest ‘park the bus’ managers in football history and how they mastered the art of defensive football.
A push to expand the men's 2030 World Cup to 64 teams is “a bad idea,” UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin said on Thursday.
Sam Tighe has a look at next year’s World Cup betting favourites, the best of the rest, and the dark horse picks.
With 14 months before the USMNT takes the field in LA for their first World Cup match, the team feels like it’s still in the stagnant place it was after crashing out of the 2024 Copa América, which ...
The Azzurri have not qualified for the last two editions of the World Cup, but Tonali is confident La Nazionale will reach ...
Michael Cox continues his history of World Cup winners with Italy's win in an edition used by Benito Mussolini as a ...
Since March 2024, the Red Devils have won five of their last 16 games and lost five of their last seven. Four of those wins ...
The 2026 World Cup will have a record 48 teams, and Japan became the first nation excluding the three hosts to secure a spot. Other teams could follow in the current international window.
This is hardly a new problem, Italy have lacked a genuine centre-forward since Luca Toni at the 2006 World Cup, which is why ...
France turned it around in full on Sunday to continue their slow build towards the 2026 World Cup. Jean Catuffe/Getty Images Unlike four days earlier, when Deschamps made a mess of his tactics ...
Nigeria's hopes of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup finals are one more looking a little bleak. The Africa Cup of Nations runners-up were winless in their first four matches in CAF Group C ...