Read 3 minutesJune 29, 2026 10:37 PM IST Premier League side Manchester City have finally found a name to replace outgoing coach Pep Guardiola, as Enzo Maresca has been appointed as their new manager, the club announced on Monday. The Italian joined City after a mid-season exit from Chelsea and signed a three-year deal. Maresca is familiar with Man City’s set-up, having previously coached the club’s youth team. He was also assistant coach of the senior team under Guardiola during City’s 2018–19 treble-winning season. Dubbed the end of an era, Guardiola left City at the end of the 2025-26 season

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Debbieh Davis remembers guns — not their crack, but their presence as a fact of daily life in Monrovia, they made everything right. You ate as they said. According to them you have moved on. You knew whether your children would survive according to them. When the Second Liberian Civil War arrived at his family’s doorstep, Debeh and Victoria fled to Buduburam, a refugee camp in Ghana. They built a life in a tin shack no bigger than a minivan. Their fourth youngest child was born there on November 2, 2000 and was named Alfonso. Less than one percent of

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Brazil vs Japan FIFA World Cup 2026 Live Score: (AP Photo) Brazil vs Japan, FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Today Live Score: Brazil will face Japan in the first knockout round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup at the Houston Stadium on Monday. Brazil are the most successful team in the competition’s history, having won the World Cup five times, but the last time they won it was in 2002, and since then they have only managed to reach the semi-finals once – an infamous 1–7 loss to Germany at the Maracana. Teams: Brazil: Alisson Baker, Waverton, Ederson, Gabriel Magalhas,

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What unites Ghanaian Benjamin Asare, Ivorian Yahya Fofana, Japanese Zion Suzuki and Senegalese Edward Mendy? They are All Black goalkeepers, although no one wants to be in goal early in their careers. These two words have never been combined in the history of football. The game has produced elite black strikers, wingers and defenders, but a black goalkeeper is a rare commodity. This World Cup has especially challenged perceptions. Statistics confirm. Six of the 20 goalkeepers with the highest save percentages so far at the tournament are black – a dramatic increase from the corresponding figure of just one in

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Read 3 minutes29 Jun 2026 03:29 PM IST History is written by the winners and it will be recorded that South Africa bowed out in the FIFA World Cup round of 32 after a last-gasp goal against Canada. But for a team that was derided as perhaps the worst in the competition after a game and a half, reaching the knockout stages for the first time in its history was a credible achievement in itself. Beating a pedigree team like South Africa to progress was due to the team punching above its weight and making optimal use of its limited

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Read 3 minutes29 Jun 2026 12:54 PM IST Julian Nagelsmann says he feels no pressure to prove himself as Germany prepare for their World Cup Round of 32 clash against Paraguay. The upcoming game is a significant milestone for the four-time world champions, as it is their first appearance in the knockout stages of the tournament in 12 years. After entering the World Cup with nine straight wins, Germany dominated Curacao 7-1 in their Group E debut and then secured top spot with a last-minute victory over Ivory Coast. Despite earlier early exits at the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, the

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Read 3 minutesUpdated: June 29, 2026 11:24 AM IST World Cup debutants Cape Verde’s historic qualification for the knockout stages on Saturday has been marred by an investigation into rape allegations leveled against their captain on Sunday by a Brazilian woman. According to Brazilian news outlet Globo, forward Ryan Mendes is accused of sexually assaulting a woman who worked as a translator with the team in New Zealand during the FIFA series tournament played from March 27-30 this year. Globo reported that the woman alleged that Mendes entered her hotel room in Oakland and physically and sexually assaulted her. The

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Read 3 minutesUpdated: June 29, 2026 09:02 AM IST Brazil manager Carlo Ancelotti has praised Asian giants Japan ahead of their World Cup 2026 clash, calling Monday night’s Round of 32 match a virtual “final” for the five-time champions. The former Real Madrid boss said Japan could compete on equal terms with Brazil in the knockout stage at the Houston Stadium, calling them one of the best teams in the world. “Japan is one of the best national teams in the world, and we have a lot of respect for them – this final will be like that. There are

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Two years ago, when Stefan Eustaquio walked onto the pitch, he felt a sense of purposelessness. He had lost his parents in the space of a year, and when he couldn’t find them in the stands, he wanted to cry, to leave the game his parents helped create. “I thought my life had no meaning and we were playing world champions Argentina in COPA,” he told the Canada Football website. Over the next few months, he rested, took time for himself, and revived. “It was their dream to see me do something big, so I have to keep playing for

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Read 3 minutesUpdated: June 28, 2026 10:13 AM IST Lionel Messi continued his excellent World Cup goal-scoring form as he stepped off the bench to score a superb free-kick in Argentina’s 3-1 win over Jordan in their final Group J match at Arlington on Saturday night. Highlights: Argentina vs Jordan Having already reached the knockout stages, Lionel Scaloni did not start with Messi, who had already scored five goals in the tournament. But without their talismanic figure, Argentina looked a team that knew what to do. Giovanni Lo Celso opened the Argentina account in 1999Th minute with a free-kick before

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