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Turkiye Crash Out of the World Cup With a Record No Team Wants

There is a particular kind of cruelty in football that has nothing to do with conceding cheap goals or losing your nerve from the spot. It is the cruelty of doing almost everything right at the wrong end of the pitch and walking away with nothing to show for it. Sixty-two shots, not a single […]

Jun 25, 2026
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Netherlands Crush Sweden 5-1 as Gakpo Equals Van Persie

Some performances announce themselves inside the opening exchanges, and Houston got one of those on 20 June 2026. By the time five minutes had elapsed the Netherlands were already ahead, by the seventeenth they had doubled the lead, and a crowd of roughly 69,000 sensed early that Sweden were in for a chastening evening. Brobbey’s […]

Jun 25, 2026
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Morocco Eye Back-to-Back Knockouts as Saibari Fires Atlas Lions

Four points from two matches rarely sounds like the stuff of headlines, yet for Morocco the arithmetic carries unusual weight. A 1-1 draw with Brazil followed by a 1-0 win over Scotland has left the Atlas Lions perched on the edge of the knockout rounds, and a victory over Haiti on 24 June would seal […]

Jun 25, 2026
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Luka Modric Hits 200 Caps as Croatia Edge Panama to Stay Alive

Some footballers chase round-number milestones for years; Luka Modric reached his on a humid evening in Toronto, almost as a footnote to a result Croatia simply had to deliver. On 23 June 2026 the veteran midfielder won his 200th international cap, and his country repaid the occasion with a 1-0 victory over Panama that kept […]

Jun 25, 2026
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Japan Rout Tunisia 4-0 to Set a Continental World Cup Record

Numbers rarely lie, and on 21 June 2026 they spoke loudly in Group F. A scoreboard reading Japan 4, Tunisia 0 looked emphatic on its own, yet the figure that mattered most was hidden behind it. This was not merely a comprehensive win; it was the afternoon a side from Asia pushed past a ceiling […]

Jun 25, 2026
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Haaland Sends Norway Back to the World Cup After 28 Years

Picture a Norwegian fan born the summer after France 1998. They are now an adult, and until 22 June 2026 they had never once watched their national side at a World Cup. That strange, generation-long gap snapped shut on a single evening in Group I, where a 3-2 result against Senegal carried Norway through and […]

Jun 25, 2026