Here are five names to have at your fingertips about the 10th World Cup, hosted and won by West Germany. Emmanuel Sanon. Losses to Canada and Mexico ended theUSA’s World Cup qualification hopes while Haiti stunned the Mexicans to represent Concacaf in Germany. After a promising start, taking a 1-0 lead over Italy on an […]
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Hart, Wilshire, Lallana excluded from England's World Cup squad
A young England team with virtually no international experience in goal has been named by manager Gareth Southgate for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Southgate included five standbyplayers in addition to a 23-man roster released Wednesday. Nearly three weeks remain until the June 4 deadline for the final list to be submitted to FIFA. […]
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World Cup Retro 1970: Five names to have at your fingertips
Here are five names to have at your fingertips about the ninth World Cup, hosted by Mexico and won by Brazil. Azteca. In 1968, Mexico had become the first LatinAmerican country to host the Olympics when it held the 19th Summer Games. It built the 114,000-seat Azteca Stadium for the 1970 World Cup and it […]
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World Cup Countdown: How Mexico's foreign legion fared
Mexico is poised to field more foreign-based players in Russia than ever before at a World Cup. Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio’s preliminary 28-man World Cup squad, which mustbe pared down to 23, is comprised of 12 European-based players, an MLS trio, and 13 Liga MX players. Mexico’s 2014 World Cup squad featured eight foreign-based […]
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World Cup Countdown: Peru names two MLS players to 23-player squad
The number of MLS players selected to play in the World Cup or named to preliminary rosters is up to 23 with the selection of a pair of players to Peru’s 23-player squad. The group named by CoachRicardo Gareca includes second-year Orlando City midfielder Yoshi Yotun and first-year Portland Timbers winger Andy Polo. Yotun and […]
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World Cup Retro 1966: Five names to have at your fingertips
Here are five names to have at your fingertips about the eighth World Cup, hosted and won by England. World CupWilly. The nation that wrote the rules to the game 103 years earlier finally hosted the World Cup. It created the first World Cup mascot — the soccer-playing lion World Cup Willy, the firstin a […]
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World Cup Countdown: Maracana heroes missing from Germany squad
Only nine members of Germany’s 2014 World Cup-winning squad have been named by Coach Joachim Loew to his 27-player preliminary roster for the 2018 World Cup that will be pared down to23 players. Neither Mario Goetze, who scored the overtime goal in Germany’s 1-0 2014 final win over Argentina, nor the man who assisted on […]
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World Cup Retro 1962: Five names to have at your fingertips
Here are five names to have at your fingertips about the seventh World Cup, hosted by Chile and won by Brazil. Carlos Dittborn. FIFAhad by now decided to alternate venues between Europe and South America. Chile was a controversial choice because of a devastating earthquake and a 1960 drought that ravaged the nation’seconomy. Chile’s soccer […]
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Argentina: Dybala and Icardi make preliminary squad
Juventus forward Paulo Dybala and Inter Milan forward Mauro Icardi, who both were excluded from Argentina’s squad for its March friendlies, were named to Coach Jorge Sampaoli‘s35-player preliminary squad for the World Cup in Russia. Dybala over Icardi? Dybala helped Juve win its seventh straightSerie A title. He scored 22 goals but only eight in the […]
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World Cup Countdown: Six MLS Ticos headed to Russia
Costa Rica’s 23-player squad for the World Cup includes six MLS players. As many as seven players could be on Panama’s team for its first World Cup when the Canaleros’ squad is cut down from 35 to23. The squads announced on Monday included 22 MLS players. Most teams have not picked their final squads. Other […]