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Sports
Brazil’s Neymar Is Out With an Injury After Serbia Match
Neymar, the Brazilian soccer star, will not be playing in the team’s next World Cup match after he was injured…
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Politics
Iran’s Football Team Has Already Won
Iran’s national football team, known affectionately as Team Melli, kicked off its World Cup on Monday in dispiriting fashion. The…
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Sports
Brazilians give thanks today — for their team’s World Cup opener.
Credit...Dado Galdieri for The New York TimesRIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil does not celebrate Thanksgiving, but it is in effect…
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Sports
American Dreams, Honed in Leeds
LEEDS, England — The stadium was already half-empty, and the steadfast few who remained inside Elland Road were in an…
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Sports
The Best Part of Winning? Smiling at Everyone Who Said You’d Lose.
SALT LAKE CITY — The crowd roared and bounced so enthusiastically that seats in the upper deck of the arena…
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Sports
The New Recruits
DOHA, Qatar — Bryan Mbeumo did not know, not for certain, why he had received the invitation, but he knew…
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Sports
‘What’s in the Water in Brampton?’ A Suburb Powers Canada Soccer
BRAMPTON, Canada — When Canada plays its first match in the 2022 World Cup on Wednesday, it will be a…
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Sports
Meet the First Ladies of Croatian Soccer
SPLIT, Croatia — The way the international soccer calendar is set up, Luka Modric is usually with his second family…
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Sports
England Had a Game, but First Its Fans Had a Quest. For Beer.
DOHA, Qatar — Faced with the disturbing prospect of enduring an entire World Cup match with no alcohol after the…
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Sports
How to watch today’s World Cup games.
England v Iran How to watch: 8 a.m. Eastern. FS1, Telemundo, Peacock (free). Few in England were intimidated by the…