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Ancelotti’s Real Madrid find a new hero in Dani Carvajal to clinch 15th Champions League title
Madrid barely had to go through the motions to win. Vinicius Jr even got his customary breakaway goal. Jude Bellingham gets his first Champions League medal to make it a double in his first season, even if this was not his finest game. It didn’t need to be. It was all so inevitable. This time, not even Dortmund could have been fooled by the usual rope-a-dope, the near-cruelty of how Madrid seem to give you a chance.
Luis Suarez passes away. Barcelona legend, Ballon d'Or winner - all you may want to know
Luis Suarez, legendary Spanish soccer player who played for top European football clubs such as Barcelona and Inter Milan, has died, according to reports.
FIFA World Cup: The ball is moving from Messi-Ronaldo to Mbappé-Gavi
Last Wednesday, in Spain’s 7-0 destruction of Costa Rica, Gavi outdid Messi. The former Barcelona and current Paris Saint-Germain Argentine was 18 years 357 days when he scored his first World Cup goal in 2006 against Serbia and Montenegro. Gavi’s volley off the post into the Costa Rican net came when the current Barça midfielder was 18 years 110 days old.
Onus on Messi, Ronaldo to 'not be legends who never lifted the Cup'
As the clock ticks down for the start of the 24th edition of the biggest tournament for the sport also called Joga Bonito -- The Beautiful Game -- in Qatar on Sunday, the two most successful stars of the last two decades -- Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who have achieved everything that club football has to offer and who are adored by millions of fans around the world -- are facing a threat of joining the above-mentioned legends that have never won the coveted Cup.
Di Stefano memorabilia, including European Cup medals, coins from Real Madrid player's collection, to be auctioned
Born in Buenos Aires, Di Stefano was a star of the Real Madrid side that dominated Spanish and European soccer.
How Maradona refashioned the football field as a battlefield-cum-canvas with his divine physicality
Physicality for Maradona was about space-time to be created, expanded, contracted, controlled and conquered. This is a divine quality. Diego Maradona made us understand that metaphysics is only a product of a man’s state of play in the physical world. His leela was football.
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Diego Maradona: Singing the body electric
‘Maradona’ remained ensconced like a sun in jar, in a past which we had techno-magic access to, like an old whisky one takes out once in a while to remember the taste of, lest one forgets that such a taste once existed.
Neymar Jr: It’s not new, this story
Neymar actually thrived in Messi’s large shadow, and as Messi’s emotional Instagram post and his cheeky response showed, the two were buddies rather than antagonists.
Soccer-List of Ballon d'Or winners
SOCCER-BALLON/WINNERS:Soccer-List of Ballon d'Or winners
Chapecoense take hope from Real lifeline to Man United
UK-COLOMBIA-CRASH-CHAPECOENSE:Chapecoense take hope from Real lifeline to Man United
Soccer-Chapecoense take hope from Real lifeline to Man United
COLOMBIA-CRASH/CHAPECOENSE:Soccer-Chapecoense take hope from Real lifeline to Man United
Soccer-Real hail Ronaldo after he beats Di Stefano derby record
SOCCER-SPAIN/RONALDO:Soccer-Real hail Ronaldo after he beats Di Stefano derby record
Suarez delighted to run riot with Messi and Neymar again
SOCCER-CHAMPIONS-BARCELONA-SUAREZ:Suarez delighted to run riot with Messi and Neymar again
Soccer-Suarez delighted to run riot with Messi and Neymar again
SOCCER-CHAMPIONS-FCB-CEL/SUAREZ:Soccer-Suarez delighted to run riot with Messi and Neymar again
Messi sets hat-trick record as Barca hit seven
SOCCER-CHAMPIONS-FCB-CEL:Messi sets hat-trick record as Barca hit seven
Messi sets hat-trick record as Barca hit Celtic for seven
SOCCER-CHAMPIONS-FCB-CEL:Messi sets hat-trick record as Barca hit Celtic for seven
Soccer-Messi sets hat-trick record as Barca hit Celtic for seven
SOCCER-CHAMPIONS-FCB-CEL/ (PIX):Soccer-Messi sets hat-trick record as Barca hit Celtic for seven
Ronaldo scores on return as Real equal club record
SOCCER-SPAIN-REALMADRID-RONALDO:Ronaldo scores on return as Real equal club record
Is Lionel Messi the supreme sovereign of football?
He is the only player – with four titles – to have won the best European player award consecutively. The only thing Lionel Messi misses: the World Cup.
Should more foreigners play in our football leagues?
It has been a fundamental debate in footballing nations small and big: Should foreigners play in the local leagues? How many? Under what rules?
10 Players who missed the World Cup
At times it could be sheer bad luck, or a tragedy. Legends as these are, they never get to play in football’s ultimate tournament
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