Gimnasia Y Tiro · Liga Profesional Argentina · Attacker · #20 · Argentina · 30 yrs
Gareth Bale hopes Wrexham "keep doing Wales proud" as they continue to build towards their aim of reaching the Premier League. The Red Dragons missed out on a play-off spot in the Championship on the final day of the 2025-26 season as they were pipped to sixth spot by Hull City, who went on to gain promotion to the top-flight. "I don't think it's the model (to follow), but obviously it's a model and what they've done is absolutely incredible," the former Real Madrid star told US media outlet Front Office Sports.
Support in LA included those of past and present regimes, and opponents of both, but a match that captivated all could not dissolve troublesSoccer unites. This is what we are told. It swoops in, majestic in the players’ grace, and gives a people – any people – a thing to rally around in good times and bad. It’s true, that does happen on occasion. But other times, as in Monday’s 2-2 draw between Iran and New Zealand here in southern California, the magic of this ridiculously simple game lies in its power to make one, or several, or several thousand, forget.Before the game, Iranians worldwide had been divided by decades of political and cultural difficulty and the Iran team were hamstrung by interrupted preparations for what should be the pinnacle of any player’s career. Continue reading...
From Zagreb to Wembley and Moscow, the Croatia great has derailed the Three Lions on many occasions. Now he’s ready for one last dance in DallasWhen Luka Modric first played against England, Tony Blair was still in office. Arsenal had just moved from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium, Italy were newly crowned world champions and Pep Guardiola retired as a player after a six-month spell in Mexico with Dorados. Twitter was less than three months old and Facebook had been made fully public earlier that year. Amy Winehouse’s album Back to Black was about to be released, while the much-hyped film Borat was coming to cinemas.Football fans in England – and in Croatia – may recognise which game it was solely from that last bit of pop culture history: the European Championship qualifier in Zagreb on 11 October 2006. Continue reading...
Our cartoonist offers up some observations after the tournament’s group games got under way in the US, Mexico and CanadaBuy a cartoon | David’s favourite works of 2025And his latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...
A Liverpool fan and an influencer explain what it’s like to be hired for a Truman Show-style experimentWhen Kevin Kotoko heard that he had been selected as one of Fox’s chief World Cup watchers he had no hesitation in accepting. What self-respecting football fan could turn down the opportunity to be paid $50,000 (£37,000) to take in all 104 games at this World Cup, after all?The only issues were that he would have to watch every match in a custom-built viewing cube in the heart of Times Square and let his employers know that he wouldn’t be coming in for work the next day. “I quit my job,” admits Kotoko, a Liverpool fan who is from Florida and was working as a waiter in a restaurant. “I found out on Thursday that I had won the competition and so I told them on Friday that would be my last day!” Continue reading...
Argentina are out to make history this summer and become the first nation to retain the World Cup on a different continent. No team has done it anywhere since Brazil in 1962. Achieving it would cap Lionel Messi’s career. But how realistic is winning it again?
Lawrence, a college town of about 100,000 in northeastern Kansas, has embraced Les Fennecs with a fervor that has surprised everyone but the people who live thereYou’ve probably seen it by now: The video of a sweet elderly man overcome with emotion, standing outside in the rain and thunderstorms of Lawrence, Kansas, as Algeria arrived at its base camp.The video and several more have gone viral as the surprise love affair of the World Cup has emerged from what seems like the unlikeliest of places – at least to those on the outside. Continue reading...
Contracts have been agreed for head coach Danny Rohl's switch from Rangers to RB Salzburg and for Hearts' Derek McInnes to arrive at Ibrox as his replacement, but talks are continuing about the German's desire to take his backroom team with him. Rangers are set to receive a £2m compensation fee when head coach Danny Rohl's switch to RB Salzburg is completed.
Contracts have been agreed for head coach Danny Rohl's switch from Rangers to RB Salzburg and for Hearts' Derek McInnes to arrive at Ibrox as his replacement, but talks are continuing about the German's desire to take his backroom team with him. Rangers are set to receive a £2m compensation fee when head coach Danny Rohl's switch to RB Salzburg is completed.
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Barney Ronay, Dan Bardell and Sid Lowe as debutants Cape Verde earn a draw against the favourites SpainRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts and join the conversation on email.On the podcast today: their first ever game at a World Cup and Cape Verde hold Spain to a 0-0 draw after an utterly heroic defensive effort. Sid Lowe joins us to ask if this is just an early blip or if Spanish fans should be concerned. Continue reading...
Barcelona’s pursuit of a new striker has been a key aspect of their transfer policy this summer, and with their priority target proving increasingly difficult to land, the club have been forced to e...
If the opening days of the tournament have taught us anything, it’s that reputations count for very little once the FIFA World Cup gets underway.Upsets continue to pile up, unexpected heroes are ste...
Ghalenoei claims team told to ‘leave immediately’ ‘We were supposed to stay here tonight to recover’The Iran captain Mehdi Taremi, midfielder Mohammad Mohebi, and head coach Amir Ghalenoei hit out at Fifa and hinted at resentment toward the US government after being told they needed to leave Los Angeles immediately after Monday night’s 2-2 draw against New Zealand in the World Cup.“Everything is like disaster, actually, for us,” said Taremi, who added that Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, visited the team in the dressing room and they expressed their concerns to him directly. Continue reading...
