Conte: 'Impossible' to rest Tottenham's World Cup stars
The twelve Tottenham players who featured at the World Cup will not find rest easy to come by, to Antonio Conte's frustration.
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Former AFF Cup champions Vietnam cruise to opening win over Laos
Former champions Vietnam made a winning start to their challenge for the 2022 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Mitsubishi Electric Cup on Wednesday (Dec 21) as Park Hang-seo's side thrashed Laos 6-0 in Vientiane.
Former champions Vietnam cruise to opening win over Laos
Former champions Vietnam made a winning start to their challenge for the 2022 Asean Championship on Wednesday as Park Hang-seo's side thrashed Laos 6-0 in Vientiane.
Gillingham get the lowdown on Carabao Cup opponents Wolves by watching streams of their friendly matches under new boss Julen Lopetegui
Gillingham boss Neil Harris knows a new man in charge at Wolves makes things even tougher for his team in the Carabao Cup.
World Cup: Hits and misses
Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe have dazzled at the World Cup in Qatar, while Morocco caught the imagination of a continent on their run to the semi-finals.
World Cup hits and misses
DOHA: Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe have dazzled at the World Cup in Qatar, while Morocco caught the imagination of a continent on their run to the semifinals. But the host nation flopped badly, Germany made a swift exit and Cristiano Ronaldo discovered he was no longer an automatic pick for Portugal. AFP Sport looks at the hits and misses from a month-long festival of football. Overachievers Morocco became the first African side and the first Arab team to reach the semifinals of a World Cup. And it was no fluke. Walid Regragui’s men, ranked 22nd in the world, beat Belgium and drew with Croatia on the way to topping their group before dumping 2010 champions Spain and Portugal out of the tournament. Roared on by tens of thousands of fans and supported across Africa and the Arab world, they came up short in the semifinals, losing 2-0 to France, but they have broken new ground. Japan shocked Germany and Spain to top their group before losing on penalties to Croatia in the round of 16. South Korea underlined the progress Asian football is making by beating Portugal to qualify from their group but came unstuck against Brazil in the first knockout round.
World Cup of firsts ends with clash of titans
DOHA: There is no new name on the trophy and many of football’s global superstars are taking their final bow but the most controversial World Cup in history will be remembered as a tournament of firsts. Heavyweights France and Argentina progressed to the final, each looking to win the trophy for a third time after a tournament packed with shocks and surprises. Four-time winners Germany crashed out at the group stage for the second successive time while Argentina were beaten by Saudi Arabia in their opener in one of the biggest shocks in the tournament’s history.
Whatever the ending, Qatar World Cup duly delivered
A World Cup that has defied all expectations reaches its climax on Sunday when Lionel Messi could join Diego Maradona in Argentine immortality by taking the south Americans to the title or France could become the first nation to retain it since 1962.