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Back to the drawing board for Nagelsmann after Germany's shock defeat to Slovakia
Germans suffer a first ever World Cup qualifying away defeat with manager saying: 'We picked the best players but maybe we have to put less importance on quality and more on players who will give it all out there'

Fri, 05 Sep, 2025

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S 2026 World Cup: How far has the US game come since 1994's 'greatest show on earth'?
The biggest difference from 31 years ago is that football fever has finally gripped the USA, which will host three-quarters of the tournament

Wed, 11 Jun, 2025

Government 'still hopeful' extra Euro 2028 games will be held in Irish venues 
Government 'still hopeful' extra Euro 2028 games will be held in Irish venues 
Asked if he was disappointed that any extra matches are now likely to be held in Dublin rather than in regional cities, Thomas Byrne said that it was always going to be a Uefa decision

Sun, 05 Jan, 2025

State Papers: Ireland asked US to be flexible on World Cup visas for 'Jackie Charlton's army' 
State Papers: Ireland asked US to be flexible on World Cup visas for 'Jackie Charlton's army' 
Pleas by tånaiste Dick Spring and ambassador Dermot Gallagher got a lukewarm response from World Cup 1994 hosts 

Sat, 28 Dec, 2024

Irish Examiner view: How will homeless fare after 'painful correction'?
Irish Examiner view: How will homeless fare after 'painful correction'?
House prices overvalued by 8% to 10% ESRI warns 

Fri, 13 Dec, 2024

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S Tommy Martin: Why TMS (that’s Too Much Sport) viewing numbers are tumbling
Too Much Rugby is a smaller scale version of Too Much Football, which reaches new levels of bloated madness with next year’s FIFA Club World Cup

Thu, 12 Dec, 2024

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Late Zhang winner reignites China's World Cup dream, Saudis hold Australia
The top two finishers in each of Asia's three qualifying groups advance automatically to the 2026 finals in North America while the third and fourth placed nations progress to another phase of preliminaries.

Thu, 14 Nov, 2024

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Saudi Arabia pays for naming rights to AtlĂ©tico Madrid’s stadium for nine years
Saudi Arabia is all-but confirmed to host the 2034 World Cup. It is the only candidate in a contest FIFA member federations will decide in a December 11 vote.

Wed, 09 Oct, 2024

High jinks: Bolivia moves World Cup qualifier to even thinner air, hoping to elevate performance
High jinks: Bolivia moves World Cup qualifier to even thinner air, hoping to elevate performance
Bolivians hopes to exploit the higher altitude by picking a squad for Thursday's World Cup qualifier against Venezuela in which 80% of the players are from clubs used to playing in thinner air

Wed, 04 Sep, 2024

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Spain, Portugal, and Morocco to host 2030 World Cup
Spain, Portugal, and Morocco are set to co-host the 2030 men's World Cup, with three South American nations staging the opening matches to mark the tournament's centenary

Wed, 04 Oct, 2023

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FIFA chief Infantino says women should  ‘pick the right battles’ in equal pay fight
Infantino rounds on critics, says 'best' Women's World Cup generates $570m for FIFA

Fri, 18 Aug, 2023

Watch: Irish fans on Coogee Beach cheer on girls in green ahead of World Cup opener
Watch: Irish fans on Coogee Beach cheer on girls in green ahead of World Cup opener
Viral video shows hundreds of Irish people forming a huge human #COYGIG message on the popular beach outside Sydney

Wed, 19 Jul, 2023

Jennifer Horgan: Saying no to ‘sportswashing’ is just turning a blind eye to injustice
Jennifer Horgan: Saying no to ‘sportswashing’ is just turning a blind eye to injustice
Switching off the television is too easy a fix and it doesn’t make the injustice go away. It is far more powerful to sit in our discomfort, to feel it, and understand what it really means

Sat, 24 Jun, 2023

Irish Examiner view: Turning the wake of a true great into the Gianni Infantino show
Irish Examiner view: Turning the wake of a true great into the Gianni Infantino show
The Fifa president's reputation was bad enough already and then he compounds it with his tacky behaviour at Pelé's funeral

Wed, 04 Jan, 2023

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How will Premier League stars cope after highs and lows of Qatar?
How do those players return to civilian life, to the petty concerns of the everyday?

Sat, 24 Dec, 2022

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Joyce Fegan: Turn down volume on ‘free’ speech with only malice at heart
This week it was announced that Formula One drivers will be banned from displaying political or religious statements without prior approval from next season. It has all the hallmarks of what goes on over at Fifa

Fri, 23 Dec, 2022

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When can we expect to see World Cup stars back in domestic action?
Qatar 2022 concluded in thrilling fashion on Sunday with Argentina’s penalty shoot-out win against France and there is little time to draw breath before domestic leagues return to action

Tue, 20 Dec, 2022

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Argentina's World Cup winners arrive home to hero's welcome
Thousands welcomed the new world champions home to Buenos Aires.

Tue, 20 Dec, 2022

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Blue and white euphoria grips Buenos Aires 
More than a million people were in the streets of Buenos Aires celebrating the victory, according to estimates from the Argentinian authorities

Tue, 20 Dec, 2022

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How Lionel Scaloni re-shaped Argentina into world champions
Lionel Messi was the first through, cradling the trophy he had barely let go since he set eyes on it. And why not? It is some sight up close, the kind of thing you could hold for ever, that completes you and, in his case, completes football too.

Tue, 20 Dec, 2022

Emiliano Martinez: From penalties to mind games
Emiliano Martinez: From penalties to mind games
In Martinez’s three penalty shootouts for Argentina, opponents have scored only seven times from 14 attempts, a conversion rate of 50 per cent

Tue, 20 Dec, 2022

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French hearts are broken but future looks bright
France will be heartbroken after losing the World Cup final in a penalty shootout but the genius of Kylian Mbappé and the depth of talent in the squad bode well for the future

Tue, 20 Dec, 2022

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Kieran Shannon: Sport doesn't get bigger and rarely gets better than Messi's World Cup
Football has always been the global game, and for a long time Messi has been its king. And now thankfully after last Sunday he’s indisputably the king of the world

Tue, 20 Dec, 2022

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The winner is 
 Qatar: Curtain comes down on Project Hard Football Power
It was costly, carbon-heavy, bloodstained and corruption-shadowed but this micromanaged power play couldn’t have gone much better for the hosts

Mon, 19 Dec, 2022

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Ten memorable impressions from the Qatar World Cup
The epic finale will smother all else when the 2022 World Cup is remembered but there were plenty of other dramatic developments over the course of 28 days in the desert

Mon, 19 Dec, 2022

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