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• How Alvarez became Europe's most sought-after striker

  10-06-2026 14:43 via bbc.com
  
  Julian Alvarez heads to the World Cup aiming to fire Argentina to back-to-back triumphs at a time when he is the subject of one the most sensational transfer bids ever made.
  
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• Qatar v Switzerland: World Cup 2026 – live

  13-06-2026 19:25
  ⚽️ Kick-off 12pm local, 3pm EST, 8pm BST, 4am Sun AEST
  ⚽️ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail JohnBeing unable to play during the final part of Real Madrid’s season and not taking part at the World Cup with the Seleção is a feeling impossible to explain. Watching Real Madrid’s crucial matches on TV without being able to step on to the pitch and give my all for the club left a bitter taste. And watching the World Cup squad announcem
  
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• Clutch time: Canadian and US World Cup mascots feature in Peruvian drugs raid

  13-06-2026 17:39
  
  Lima police dress as mascots in raid on suspectZayu the Jaguar left out of police operationWhile tensions between Canada and the United States have risen in the last few years as Donald Trump has made threats to turn his northern neighbor into a 51st state of America, there has been some mutual cooperation in crime fighting.Earlier this week, Clutch the Bald Eagle and Maple the Moose – the mascots for the United States and Canada respectively at this year’s World Cup – helped P
  
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• Big Lalas Energy to ulcerative colitis meds: Fox is this World Cup’s very soul in the US

  13-06-2026 16:47
  
  The US version of the tournament’s opening ceremony helpfully focused on one of its main themes: aspirational consumerismThe 2026 World Cup: a festival of football; a moment to revel in upsets, spectacular goals, stars made, and reputations ruined; a test of Didier Deschamps’s unshakable addiction to Adrien Rabiot. But also: a celebration of America; a chance for Fox Sports to prove the haters wrong; a social experiment to see how long Thierry Henry can last on set with Alexi Lalas b
  
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• Kretinsky set to become West Ham‘s biggest shareholder and addresses Sullivan allegations

  13-06-2026 16:44
  
  Czech billionaire to increase his stake from 27% to 43%Kretinsky and Gold‘deeply concerned’ by revelationsDaniel Kretinsky, the owner of Royal Mail, is set to overtake David Sullivan as West Ham’s largest shareholder after agreeing to buy an additional stake in the club from the Gold family. The Czech billionaire has moved to increase his power at West Ham after Sullivan stepped down as a director and co-chair of the club last Saturday, before a joint investigation by the Times
  
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• Football Daily | A cult classic kit, 4-4-2 and refcam: 10 things we’ve noticed in World Cup so far

  13-06-2026 16:10
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!We’re almost a 25th of the way through the Geopolitics World Cup – four games down, 100 to go – so it’s the perfect time to reflect on what we’ve learned and noticed so far. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘You make people a bit happier’: the football app building friendships in London

  13-06-2026 15:00
  
  Footy Addicts helps amateur players find a game at short notice – and tackles the problem of lonelinessCries of “Boss! Boss! Boss!” emerge from the pitch during a hard-fought game of football in a London park. There aren’t a lot of names used in this game, because most players only met just before kick-off. They were brought together by an app that’s injecting life into grassroots football.Footy Addicts was invented to solve an infuriating problem for amateur player
  
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• Ghana strongly criticises Canada for denying Thomas Partey a World Cup visa

  13-06-2026 14:10
  
  ‘High-handed and extremely unfair,’ government saysOfficial note of protest sent calling for a reviewGhana’s government has described Canada’s decision to deny Thomas Partey a visa for his country’s World Cup game against Panama on Wednesday as “high-handed and extremely unfair”.Ghana’s foreign ministry said it understood the decision to be based on pending criminal proceedings in Britain. The 32-year-old Partey, a former Arsenal midfielder who pla
  
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• In a USA win for the history books, what stood out most was the ‘fun’ and free nature of it

  13-06-2026 13:00
  The United States are no longer a workmanlike outfit built on grit and grind – and Mauricio Pochettino says they are ‘winning a lot of fans’To find a precedent for the United States’ win over Paraguay, one must return to a time when World Cup teams were forced to drop out due to the Great Depression, and the ones who did make it arrived via ship, playing with a leather ball held together by seam and laces.The dominant 4-1 win matched a 96-year-old landmark – the lar
  
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• Pipers and dreams: World Cup fever grips Scotland again after 28 years

  13-06-2026 12:00
  
  The country is ready to blow away decades of dashed hopes and celebrate, with marching bands and all-night partiesScotland is leaning into one of its most treasured traditions: embracing the hope and anxiety of a football World Cup, with a healthy dose of self-deprecating style.There are brash new tartans, an Edinburgh bar offering free Irn-Bru-infused “fiery ginger” beers for patrons with red hair, a collaboration between Scottish whisky firms and a Brazilian distiller, and all-nigh
  
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• David Beckham joins Hollywood Walk of Fame as World Cup comes to LA

  13-06-2026 11:09
  Beckham enjoys ‘surreal’ occasion with Tom CruiseCelebrities cheer on USA at their opening matchDavid Beckham has been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Beckham called the ceremony “surreal” as his wife, Victoria, and his friend Tom Cruise praised him at the ceremony.Cruise lauded Beckham’s journey, saying it was “a Hollywood story” of hard work, determination and global influence on sport and culture. Continue reading...
  
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• USA blast out of the blocks and Canada get first ever point | World Cup Daily

  13-06-2026 09:33
  On the podcast today: the USA … might actually be very good? They blew Paraguay away in their opening game in LA. Christian Pulisic, we owe you a huge apology. Elsewhere; Canada come back to draw with Bosnia and Herzegovina, an inspired triple substitution from Jesse Marsch turning things around, and if not for some brilliant Bosnian blocks they should have won it. Plus, a preview of the next batch of games including Haiti v Scotland, the developing domestic bliss between Max and Barry, a
  
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• Why football does not remember the name of its greatest ever Jewish player

  13-06-2026 06:00
  Influential Jewish managers such as Bela Guttman survived the Holocaust. In his new book, David Bolchover explores the great players who did notWho was the best Brazilian player of all time? Pelé comes the answer. Argentina? Maradona or Messi. Hungary? Puskas. Holland? Cruyff. Germany? Beckenbauer. Portugal? Eusébio or Ronaldo – take your pick. France? Zidane? England? Perhaps Bobby Charlton?What about the best Jewish footballer ever? Gotcha! That’s one to send even a g
  
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• Injury deprived me of chance to play so I am going to the World Cup to support Brazil | Rodrygo

  13-06-2026 06:00
  Watching the squad presentation knowing I wasn’t in it was tough, but I have high hopes with Carlo Ancelotti in chargeI am travelling to the United States this week to watch some of the Seleção’s games at the World Cup. I’ll be continuing my daily treatment to recover from the knee injury I suffered in March and, during this routine, I’ll try to experience the competition in a different way. While Rodrygo, a boy from Osasco [a city in the state of São
  
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• ‘I thought – gosh, he’s going to be some player’: the making of England’s Declan Rice

  13-06-2026 06:00
  
  Rejected by Chelsea, honed by West Ham and a league winner at Arsenal, the midfielder has plenty from his footballing journey wishing him well at the World CupThree years ago Declan Rice was the star guest at a Soho House event about the power of effective leadership. Tickets were in hot demand and Rice, who was due to play a European semi-final for West Ham two days later, could not understand why so many people were interested in what he had to say.The audience was packed with marketing direct
  
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• Cold War Steve on … Gianni Infantino staying cool as World Cup heats up

  13-06-2026 06:00
  The first in a special series of World Cup 2026 themed collages made for the Guardian by the celebrated satiristContinue reading...
  
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• Manchester United lead chase for West Ham’s £80m-rated Mateus Fernandes

  13-06-2026 03:01
  
  Real Madrid also among midfielder’s potential suitorsCastellanos an option for Everton amid likely exitsManchester United are leading the race to sign Mateus Fernandes from West Ham. The midfielder also has interest from Arsenal, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain, but the strongest early moves have come from United as they look to boost Michael Carrick’s squad.West Ham hope to receive £80m for Fernandes, although they may face financial pressure to drop their asking price aft
  
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• BBC kicks off World Cup broadcast battle in Salford and provides contrast to ITV’s celebrity slop

  13-06-2026 00:32
  Journalistic muscles were flexed with Ros Atkins factchecking real-world issues with production offering merits more achievable by working from homeMust a World Cup broadcast be on location? The BBC, for reasons of cost and environmental concerns, has rolled back to when tournaments were beamed back to the UK. Halcyon days of Brian Moore and Des Lynam accompanied by pundits in garish knitwear and beige furniture are long gone, if lamented. How to recapture their magic? Need it be a problem when
  
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• Supersub Cyle Larin rescues point for Canada against Bosnia and Herzegovina

  12-06-2026 23:21
  “History is about to be made,” the understandably giddy stadium announcer said in the seconds before kick-off and while this was not the perfect start, Canada will not forget Cyle Larin’s equaliser against Bosnia and Herzegovina in a hurry.Trailing to Jovo Lukic’s first international goal, Larin stepped off the bench and pulled the co-hosts level with his first touch, lashing in 121 seconds after his entrance. It felt like a shot that carried pent-up frustration at being
  
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• Rangers target Derek McInnes from Hearts as replacement for Danny Röhl

  12-06-2026 19:56
  
  Röhl expected to join RB SalzburgMcInnes turned down chance to manage Rangers in 2017Rangers are likely to move for the Hearts manager, Derek McInnes, if Danny Röhl completes a move to RB Salzburg. The Ibrox club and Salzburg are in talks over a deal for Röhl, who was appointed by Rangers last October. The 37-year-old began his coaching career elsewhere in the RB stable, at Leipzig. There is a rising sense in Glasgow that he will accept Salzburg’s overtures, with a switch li
  
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• World Cup refcam offers new perspective to hint at future of football broadcasting

  12-06-2026 17:59
  Usage in opening matches focused on replays of goals from a unique angle, offering the viewer greater depth to watch from homeNot all of Fifa’s innovations at this men’s World Cup have been an instant hit with fans. But amid the clutter of the opening day, one success did seem to emerge – the new and improved refcam view.As part of their matchday equipment a small, high-definition “stabilised” camera is attached to the referee’s headset. Before the tournament,
  
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• Football Daily | The ‘Azteca’ delivers as hosts and ghosts give us that World Cup feeling

  12-06-2026 16:36
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!There’s an elemental force to football that can never be bottled and sold off. For reasons only known to Gianni Infantino and attendant pen pushers, the Azteca has been renamed the Mexico City Stadium for the Geopolitics World Cup. You can change a name for admin purposes, make punters pay through the nose for tickets, and charge 280 pesos ($17) for a beer (!) but legacy endures. It cannot be costed, sliced and diced. The ghosts of 1970 an
  
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• Nobody should underestimate what Thomas Tuchel can do with England | Emma Hayes

  12-06-2026 13:00
  Leaving Cole Palmer at home surprised me, but I know Thomas from Chelsea – he’s the type of coach to die on his swordIn Thomas Tuchel, England have an elite coach. Don’t underestimate him. In my 12 years working at Chelsea, he and Mauricio Pochettino were my two favourite managers.Thomas is a great communicator, he’s demanding and he articulates himself really well. I admire the way he transfers information to the press and to players in a clear, concise way that is metho
  
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• Kenny Jackett, former Wales and Watford player and successful manager, dies aged 64

  12-06-2026 11:54
  Jackett spent whole playing career with WatfordHe managed seven clubs including Millwall and WolvesThe former Watford and Wales player Kenny Jackett, who managed clubs including Wolves, Millwall and Swansea, has died aged 64.Jackett won 31 Wales caps during a playing career spent entirely with Watford, his local club, before starting his managerial career with the Hornets in 1996. He took charge of more than 900 games across spells with seven clubs, most recently Leyton Orient, but also includin
  
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• Tartan Army toast Scotland’s World Cup return: ‘It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’

  12-06-2026 11:00
  Of all the bases Scotland fans could have found for their World Cup journey, it had to be the city renowned for chasing the English out of townSam Adams is the beer of Boston, named after a founding father of the United States who was the fourth governor of Massachusetts. Downtown, there’s a tap room where you can drink it all day. On Thursday lunchtime the bar was packed, full of Scotland fans, and hanging over the first-floor balcony was a big yellow flag. It bore the legend “Remem
  
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• Joy for Jiménez and Mexico as co-hosts make ideal start: World Cup Daily – podcast

  12-06-2026 09:58
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Barney Ronay, Jeff Rueter and Jonathan Wilson as the World Cup kicks off in MexicoRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts and join the conversation on email.On the podcast today: there are tears from Raúl Jiménez as he scores his first ever World Cup goal that confirms a very easy win for co-hosts Mexico. South Africa gifted them the first, had a man sent off … and then had another red card (while the there was also another dismissal
  
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• Klopp role in putting Rohl in Salzburg frame - gossip

  12-06-2026 08:36 via bbc.com
  
  Former Liverpool boss plays role in putting Rangers head coach in frame for RB Salzburg job as Celtic backroom team asked to take wage cuts.
  
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• 'Best Canada team ever' bid to shine at home World Cup

  12-06-2026 08:12 via bbc.com
  
  Amid political turbulence in the US and talk of moving matches out of Mexico, it can be forgotten that there is a third co-host of the 2026 World Cup. Canada hope it will be their time to shine.
  
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• Everyone needs to feel loved playing for England - Bellingham

  12-06-2026 07:24 via bbc.com
  
  England midfielder Jude Bellingham stresses the importance of needing to 'feel loved' as he looks to help the Three Lions enjoy World Cup success this summer.
  
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• Who am I? Guess World Cup star No 5

  12-06-2026 07:21 via bbc.com
  
  Will you get today's player in as few attempts as possible?
  
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