Read 4 minutesNew DelhiUpdated: 7 July 2026 09:14 AM IST White House phone calls don’t win you football games. FIFA can bend the rules but still cannot guarantee results. Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino made sure US forward Folarin Balogun’s red card was overturned and he was on the field but it didn’t matter for Belgium, who scored. A 4-1 win secured a place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup. The American Dream is over; All three hosts are out of the World Cup. Belgium took the lead within the first 10 minutes through a goal by Charles de

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Cristiano Ronaldo’s biggest dream will forever remain invincible. The man who can deliver football’s most records and trophies will ride off into the sunset without its greatest prize, the World Cup. It was a dream, to kiss it, to hold it in the sky, to sleep like a baby; the fuel that kept him burning at 41, the one that lifted him above the pains and niggles of a sculpted but battered body; trolls and memes; The tactical burden he placed on his team, the flamboyant ego that had long ago told him to retreat to the shadows. His eyes

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Read 4 minutes7 July 2026 06:15 AM IST Much of Mohamed Salah’s life has been in the shadow of Lionel Messi. The Egyptian was a young prodigy and started playing senior football when Argentina was at the peak of its powers. The comparisons that followed were plentiful, and just as every country’s left-footed right winger died in football with a contrasting profile to Messi’s side, Salah also suffered. Many people remember the successful nine years of ‘Egyptian Messi’ in Liverpool. Most forget he was a journeyman before arriving on Merseyside: FC Basel, Chelsea, Fiorentina and AS Roma – five years

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Read 3 minutesUpdated: 6 July 2026 09:31 PM IST US President Donald Trump has admitted he has lobbied FIFA president Gianni Infantino to review the one-match suspension of USA forward Folarin Balogun, a decision that has fueled uproar at the ongoing 2026 World Cup. Balogun was shown a straight red card for a challenge on Bosnia and Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic, which also means a suspension for the next game. however, After Fifa Dr that “enforcement of the match suspension has been suspended for a probationary period of one year”, thus allowing him to play in the USA’s next match,

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Read for 2 minutesUpdated: July 7, 2026 03:07 AM IST Cristiano Ronaldo The last World Cup campaign ended at the hands of familiar foes Spain Portugal lost 1-0 in Dallas on Monday night in the round of 16. This means that Ronaldo will join the many legends of the game who failed to win the coveted World Cup trophy during their careers. Substitute Mikel Merino scored in extra time to send his side into the quarter-finals and extend their run without conceding a goal. Merino struck in the 91st minute after fellow substitute Ferran Torres slipped a pass behind the

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Read 4 minutes6 Jul 2026 11:13 PM IST FIFA’s red card suspension of USA striker Folarin Balogun has come under the spotlight ahead of the co-hosts’ 2026 World Cup Round of 16 match against Belgium. US President Donald Trump later admitted that he had asked FIFA president Gianni Infantino to let Balogun play, only the second of 189 red cards in World Cup history with the decision by the world governing body. Brazil great Garrincha received a red card in the semi-final against Chile in the 1962 World Cup and was overturned in Brazil’s final against Czechoslovakia. Balogun was shown

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Bards and poets must be laughing. It was the ending he wrote himself: a final act crafted to perfection. Remove the context for a moment and consider the final telling act of Brazil vs. Norway. A penalty. Neymar was walking up. Brazil’s top scorer with more goals than Pele and more goals than Rivaldo and Ronaldinho. He will become the second Brazilian player to score in four World Cups with one goal. And opposite him, Ørjan Nyland. invulnerable He had rejected Bruno Guimaraes from the spot and then the undisputed Vinicius Jr. Every Brazilian attack disappeared. Then came Neymar. flamboyant

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Portugal vs Spain World Cup 2026 Match Today Live Updates: Two generations will collide when Portugal’s 41-year-old superstar Cristiano Ronaldo faces Spain’s 18-year-old scholar Lamine Yamal at Dallas Stadium on Monday night. Ronaldo, with three goals, will be looking to silence his critics while Yamal will be keen to return to form in the ordinary competition so far. Yamal will have no memories of facing Portugal last year as they lost on penalties in the UEFA Nations League final. At the World Cup, this is the first time the two sides have met since the 2018 edition in Russia where

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Read for 5 minutes6 Jul 2026 07:39 PM IST The five-time champions lost 1-2 to Norway in the round of 16 in New Jersey on Sunday Brazil exited the tournament. The loss in the round of 16 meant that it was the country’s first World Cup exit since their defeat in the last 16 of the 1990 World Cup. The defeat means that Brazil have failed to win the World Cup in the last five editions of the tournament since Cafu-led Brazil won the World Cup in 2002. Former Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic believes Brazil are haunted by their history

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The 2025 UEFA Nations League final is set to be played once again, but this time on a bigger stage and with a lot more at stake, as Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal take on teenage sensation Lamine Yamal’s Spain in the FIFA World Cup Round of 16 at the Dallas Stadium. goals so far in the tournament, keeping 4 clean sheets in the process, and looking to extend that further. While A Seleção das Quinas secured a thrilling 2-1 win over Croatia in the 2018 final. However, the atmosphere in Dallas is set to be electric and both nations will be

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