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England winger Bukayo Saka said he was willing to risk his fitness and play through the pain for Thomas Tuchel’s team at the World Cup, insisting he was fit ...

American great Serena Williams will return to Wimbledon with her sister Venus following a four-year absence after the All England Club gave the pair a doubles wildcard on Tuesday and ...

Tunisia have sacked coach Sabri Lamouchi and replaced him with fellow Frenchman Herve Renard in the wake of the 5-1 defeat by Sweden in their World Cup opener in Monterrey ...

Lionel Messi has very little left to prove in his career, but the iconic Argentine forward gearing up for another World Cup is like Tom Brady running it back for ...

Kylian Mbappe heads into France’s World Cup opener against Senegal on Tuesday with questions swirling around him after a season that has left the country’s biggest football star ...

Human goal machine Erling Haaland will seek to get his World Cup account up and running immediately when Norway take on Iraq on Tuesday to end the country’s nearly ...

Iran and New Zealand share four-goal thriller amid political tensions Iran twice came from behind to earn a dramatic 2-2 draw with New Zealand in a gripping Group G encounter ...

Maxi Araujo scored a late equaliser to salvage a 1-1 draw for Uruguay in their World Cup opener against Saudi Arabia on Monday, preventing another stunning upset in Group H ...

Omonia winger Willy Semedo played his part as Cape Verde held European champions Spain to a goalless draw in their first ever game at a World Cup finals at the ...

Carlos Queiroz is still one tournament short of matching the record for coaching at the World Cup, but the 73-year-old will still enter the record books this week. Queiroz takes ...

U.S. President Donald Trump hosted mixed martial arts fights on the White House lawn on Sunday, an unprecedented spectacle highlighting his willingness to blend the pageantry of his office ...

England’s opening World Cup match against Croatia on Wednesday will be refereed by Frenchman Clement Turpin, who was once labelled “Grade E” by Thomas Tuchel who is now England ...

Iran open their World Cup Group G campaign against New Zealand in Los Angeles on Monday in a match shaped as much by events off the pitch as by the ...

Spain arrive in Atlanta with the air of a team expecting a long World Cup summer, but on Monday they face opponents carrying an equally powerful feeling: the giddy disbelief ...

Substitute Amad Diallo struck in the 90th minute to give Ivory Coast a deserved 1-0 win over Ecuador in both teams’ Group E opener on Saturday night. Diallo’s first-time ...

Ayari double, Isak and Gyokeres fire Sweden to 5-1 rout of Tunisia Sweden’s Yasin Ayari scored two sensational goals and Alexander Isak and Viktor Gyokeres also got on the ...

Germany walloped Curacao 7-1 in their World Cup opener on Sunday after Felix Nmecha scored the tournament’s fastest goal so far and then drew a penalty in first-half stoppage ...

Lewis Hamilton claimed his first Formula One grand prix victory for Scuderia Ferrari on Sunday after producing a dominant drive at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, leading from the front to ...

Toyota won the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Sunday after a Hypercar battle with BMW and Cadillac in the 94th edition of the race. BMW had started from pole position ...

The latest country to make its World Cup debut will also have the oldest coach ever in the tournament when Curacao plays traditional powerhouse Germany in a Group E match ...

The first World Cup that Giovanni remembers vividly was South Africa in 2010. He was 15 at the time, on summer holiday, and went a little football-mad, watching every game. Life got ...

Australian Cypriot Aziz Behich was a late substitute as Australia got off to a winning start at the World Cup, beating Turkey 2-0 at BC Place in Vancouver. Behich, now 35 ...

Scotland hang on for first World Cup win since 1990 with 1-0 victory over Haiti Scotland, roared on by their Tartan Army of travelling fans, savoured their first World Cup win ...

Qatar celebrated their first World Cup point after a late own goal forced a 1-1 draw against Switzerland and sent the Gulf nation into jubilation on Saturday. Qatar captain Boualem ...