The grass inside Lusail Stadium is lush, richly coloured, moist. One hundred days after the World Cup final, the pitch is still watered daily and cut once a week; a team of around 30 workers are on hand to maintain the site. Empty white seats glare from stands that once
Tag: World Cup 2022
Gareth Southgate feels ‘conflicted’ over England job future after recent lows
Gareth Southgate has dropped a strong hint that he could walk away from the England manager’s job, saying he feels “conflicted” about whether to stay on in light of the various lows of the past 18 months. Southgate remains physically and mentally shattered by his team’s World Cup quarter-final defeat against
Football turned Neymar’s talent toxic: Qatar 2022 feels like an end point | Barney Ronay
The morning after its seven-game World Cup lifespan was complete, Stadium 974 – the shipping container one, a kind of elite Qatari hipster project, cod-Hackney to go with the cod-Paris – was already being dismantled by men with diggers and grabbers and electric wrenches. This is the way of things here.
Azzedine Ounahi helps Morocco make the impossible a vivid reality | Nick Ames
Qatar World Cup chief hits out at media for focus on migrant worker deaths – video
Qatari authorities are investigating the reported death of a Filipino man working at a resort used by the Saudi Arabia national team during the group stage of the soccer World Cup. When asked about the incident, World Cup chief executive Nasser Al Khater expressed disappointment that journalists would ask questions
Netherlands v Argentina: their previous World Cup meetings
Netherlands 4-0 Argentina: 1974 second group stage The first World Cup meeting between the sides is not one Argentina will remember with fondness. They are ruthlessly torn apart in Gelsenkirchen by the brilliant Johan Cruyff-inspired Oranje, whose collective vision, movement and passing patterns are complemented by steely tackling and defensive discipline.
A short history of World Cup hat-tricks: from Patenaude to Ramos
Gonçalo Ramos received immediate, global acclaim when he scored the first hat-trick of the World Cup in Qatar. Having replaced Cristiano Ronaldo in the Portugal starting lineup, the 21-year-old had already caused quite a stir and the eyes of the world were trained on the Benfica striker against Switzerland. He
