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The Guardian Football‘The best goalscorer in the world’: Erling Haaland primed for World Cup debut
Norway coach Solbakken backs striker to make impact ‘He’s played better and better in training,’ 58-year-old says The venue where one footballing great’s World Cup journey ended will witness the beginning for another. Little did anybody know at the time that Diego Maradona’s appearance for Argentina against Nigeria in 1994 would be his last on football’s biggest stage. It was then the Foxboro Stadium. Fast forward 32 years. Same place, different name. At the Boston Stadium, Erling Haaland will play in the World Cup for the first time as Norway face Iraq on Tuesday. Careers can be defined by this tournament. It is a reference point, for example, that George Best never featured in one. “I think he is the world’s best goalscorer,” said the Norway head coach, Ståle Solbakken. “He is physically fit. I think he has gradually played better and better in training. Continue reading...
The Guardian Football‘Kylian is Kylian’: Deschamps happy to shield Mbappé amid political scrutiny
With France captain in spotlight at team hotel and in home press, head coach tries to pull focus before their World Cup opener against Senegal Since France arrived at their World Cup base in Boston last week they have been a regular source of fascination for locals. Crowds of mostly young people have formed outside Les Bleus ’ downtown hotel to cheer the team as they leave for training. All the players are met with pleas for waves and autographs, but the roar that meets Kylian Mbappé is of a different order altogether. Mbappé is one of a small number of contemporary footballers whose names have cut through with the US public (though he is not yet a mononym, unlike Messi ). As France begin their quest for a third World Cup he is inevitably the focus back home too, not least after giving an interview to Le Parisien at the weekend in which he denied ambitions of one day becoming president of France, saying: “I’m hated enough as it is!” Continue reading...
ESPN'Finally': Norway star Erling Haaland on fulfilling World Cup dream
Erling Haaland tells ESPN he is ready to make his World Cup debut and show his love for Norway on football's biggest stage.
BBC SportFrance star Mbappe vows to increase defensive work
French captain Kylian Mbappe vows to increase his defensive efforts at the World Cup in the face of criticism.
The Guardian FootballWill Norway’s slick modern model succeed where the class of ’94 failed?
Ståle Solbakken’s fast, flexible side are far from the no-frills unit that last made the World Cup but new challenges await If Norway’s highly fancied generation need a warning from history they need only look back 32 years and study the lessons from another searing, suspenseful American summer. They had raced through qualifying at England’s expense to reach their first World Cup since 1938; their top players were starting to make it in the Premier League and through the euphoria shone a confidence that a place in the knockout stage, at least, was there to be seized. “When we got there we didn’t manage to even get close to the quality of play we had produced in qualification,” remembers Lars Bohinen, one of the silkier elements in a side that, under Egil Olsen, became renowned for an uncompromising and no-frills approach. “That’s the biggest disappointment when I talk now to my old teammates. We never got near to performing at the level we needed.” Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballFrance’s Adrien Rabiot: ‘We all have a role. You have to be humble with that’
The midfielder on providing the balance to allow attacking stars to shine and wanting a fitting World Cup sign-off for Deschamps France will look a little different this summer. “Naturally, it seems a bit more attacking than usual,” Adrien Rabiot says. “I think it is good because we have the players for it.” Lucas Hernández adds that France have “the best attack in the world” and Rayan Cherki talks about “crushing” opponents at the World Cup. Rabiot says: “I think that we have one of the most well-equipped teams in an attacking sense. We have real threats from the start but also from the bench and that is very important in a World Cup … it is great to have all of this quality.” If France seem more attacking, it is because they are. Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballIraq head coach Graham Arnold: ‘We’re capable of doing something that will shock the world’
Australian has had to contend with war, 50C heat and playoffs to steer country to a first World Cup in 40 years Twenty-eight months, 21 games, four rounds, a 117th-minute penalty and a playoff. A coach stuck in Dubai where he watches war start over the water, bombs shaking everything. A team trapped in Baghdad first and Jordan next, missiles flying around them. A scrambled 9,000-mile trip to Mexico where it all rests on one night, the very last country to make it. And, when they do finally land, the hero whose goal took them there is held up by the FBI and the man whose photographs are due to document history is turned back. There may never have been a journey to a World Cup quite like Iraq’s. “It’s been an experience,” Graham Arnold says. And the 62-year-old Australian coach who led them through it all – the “football nut” who is their other “dad” and gets mobbed everywhere he goes – is adamant that it’s not over yet. “Now it’s time to show the world what we’ve got.” Listening to him, you can’t help but believe it. Not least because he did when no one else would. Continue reading...
BBC Sport — Champions LeaguePSG go back-to-back and join 'greatest of all time'
Paris St-Germain underline their status as one of European football's greatest ever teams by retaining their Champions League crown with victory against Arsenal.
The Guardian Serie AEuropean football: Harry Kane hits hat-trick as Bayern Munich complete double
Stuttgart beaten 3-0 in DFB-Pokal Cup final Girona and Mallorca relegated from La Liga Harry Kane cut through the smoke of the DFB-Pokal cup final with a hat-trick for Bayern Munich to beat defending champions Stuttgart 3-0 and complete another domestic double on Saturday. Kane’s goals in the second half set off fireworks among the Bayern fans who had joined their Stuttgart rivals in protesting against the German soccer federation (DFB) for a planned increase in security measures. Continue reading...
The Guardian Serie AEuropean football: Roma close to Champions League return after beating Lazio
Sevilla safe despite defeat against Real Madrid Tiny Elversberg seal first promotion to Bundesliga Roma took a huge step towards returning to the Champions League by beating Lazio 2-0 in a feisty derby which finished with both teams down to 10 men, while Napoli won 3-0 at Pisa to secure a top-four spot. Gianluca Mancini smashed home two headers from corners, one in each half, at the Stadio Olimpico to move Roma up to fourth thanks also to Juventus’s shock 2-0 home defeat by Fiorentina. Continue reading...