Read 3 minutesUpdated: June 16, 2026 07:25 PM IST Cape Verde According to the BBC, since 1996 – with records available for 30 years – it may be the fewest fouls committed in a FIFA World Cup match. Number of fouls – 1. 18 from team tackles. He left Sidney Lopes Cabral with a yellow card. Can do this from his 5 clearances and 2 tackles. Spain committed 9 fouls, 1 yellow. The archipelago held off Spain’s dominating attack in a goalless 0-0, fending off waves of goal-breaking attempts – such was their organized clean tackling that saw 9 outfielders

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FIFA World Cup 2026, France vs Senegal Football Score: FRA take on SEN in Group I opener. FIFA World Cup 2026 Live Score Update of Today’s Match: Two-time World Cup winners France will be wary of their history against Senegal in openers when the two teams meet in their Group I opener at the MetLife Stadium in New York/New Jersey. The last time these two teams met in their World Cup opener was in 2002, when then-defending champions France suffered a shock 1-0 loss to the newcomers. The team could not recover after that and exited the group stage without

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Read 6 minutes16 Jun 2026 06:38 PM IST Zidane Iqbal was boarding a flight back to Manchester – where he was born and raised – at Mexico City airport when a friend sent him a message. Just 24 hours earlier, Zidane had made a sensational switch Iraq until the 2026 World Cup finalsOvercame numerous odds, defeating Bolivia in the play-offs. When the friend’s message arrived, he was watching a video of his father, Amr, lunging in an Iraqi shirt as the final whistle blew in Guadalajara. A message from a friend broke the news that Zidane was unaware of. When

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Read 3 minutesUpdated: June 16, 2026 06:21 PM IST Exactly one year later on 15 June 2025, Egypt’s Imam Ashour was taken on a stretcher to a hospital in Miami after suffering a collarbone fracture in Messi’s Club World Cup match against Inter Miami. He left the field in tears while playing for Egyptian club Al Ahly. So When he opened the scoring for the Faroes against Belgium in SeattleAshour completed an emotional reversal — one he celebrated with his favorite — the ‘Billionaire Strut,’ which traces its origins to the most American of things going global — the WWE.

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Read for 2 minutesUpdated: June 16, 2026 04:34 PM IST Spain captain and midfielder Rodri scored for World Cup debutants Cape Verde as they held the 2010 world champions to a 0-0 draw in their FIFA World Cup Group H opener on Monday. Cape Verde used a low block that Spain found it very difficult to penetrate, with both teams taking the spoils in the end. “It wasn’t meant to be. There’s little to complain about,” he said. “We knew it was a game that required patience. They sat back and they went away too quickly. We couldn’t put it

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Read 3 minutesUpdated: June 16, 2026 02:20 PM IST Sarpreet Singh scored for New Zealand in a thrilling 2-2 draw against Iran Their first match at the 2026 FIFA World Cup at Los Angeles StadiumThus joining the list of Indian-origin players in the tournament this year, others include Qatar’s Tahseen Mohammad Jamsheed, DR Congo’s Samuel Mautousami and Australia’s Nishan Velupille. Sarpreet was instrumental in New Zealand’s first goal, with Elijah exchanging passes with him and captain Chris Wood before slotting the ball into the back of the net. He was taken off in the 92nd minute of the match, replaced

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The final whistle had not been blown when Iran was told to leave. Tomorrow is not as planned. now 11pm flight from Los Angeles International. No recovery sessions, no overnight stays. Return to Mexico. FIFA president Gianni Infantino came to the dressing room after the match. He promised to help, Iran captain Mehdi Taremi said. A few hours later they were on the plane. “They didn’t even give us time to recover,” manager Amir Galenoi said. Our team is the most suppressed in the World Cup. Federation is absent here. Our media is not here. Our management team, many of

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Read for 5 minutesUpdated: June 16, 2026 10:22 AM IST One would have thought that just being in the FIFA World Cup was history enough for Cape Verde. In their first appearance at the tournament, they faced a star-studded Spain side who had the luxury of not selecting a single Spaniard from Real Madrid. On the other hand, Cape Verde has a key player who was recruited by LinkedIn and plays for Shamrock Rovers in Ireland. And yet, that day, they frustrated Spain to the end and drew 0-0. Their 33-year-old defender Roberto Lopes, the aforementioned LinkedIn search, and their

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The evening is not over for Vozinha, Cape Verdean hero against Spain. With a flag draped around his body, the goalkeeper ran around the Atlanta stadium with gleeful aimlessness. Finally, when the broadcasters managed to pull him over for a chat, his eyes were welling up with tears, mixing with sweat dripping from his forehead. He was delighted that his seven saves, each rolled into the history books, capped his country’s greatest night in football. But he was sad that his mother was not with him. Tickets booked, bags packed, but she was denied a visa. “She couldn’t come here

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Read for 5 minutesMexico City16 June 2026 08:00 AM IST The bridge is irresistible; To win it, to win it again. If Lionel Messi hadn’t won the World Cup in Qatar, he would have been just another celebrity guest in the corporate box. But success, unlike failure, tempts us to relive the glorious past, to kiss the bulbous crown again, to swing it over the shoulders of our teammates, or to weep ever so innocently again. Messi cannot put his past behind him and so he is in the US in 1962 for Pele and friends to finally achieve a

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