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The best team to lift the trophy was Brazil’s star-studded 1970 team.
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The French set up FIFA and the World Cup.
Kylian Mbappé (c), France’s new star.
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When France won the world cup in 1998, the team was celebrated for its multiculturalism. What has happened since?
To arms, citizens!
Primary school children in France will now have to learn and sing La Marseillaise. But for many people, it is racist and xenophobic.
At the 2014 World Cup African fans felt that Nigeria were on the receiving end of poor refereeing.
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Video Assistant Referees at the World Cup finals in Russia might help African teams to do better than they have done so far.
Riot police drill outside Saint Petersburg’s new soccer stadium ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky
After a series of debacles, many metropolitan areas no longer want their leaders to vie for these opportunities.
North Korean cheerleaders support the South Korean men’s ice hockey team in PyeongChang.
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Sometimes diplomacy won the day, sometimes it didn’t.
Lining up at Argentina 1978.
Scotland faces another exit at the World Cup qualifiers stage. Time for radical thinking.
France’s Olivier Giroud (right), Paul Pogba, Laurent Koscielny and Antoine Griezmann train for Euro 16.
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France’s performance at Euro 16 could provide the country with a much needed boost – if its footballers can stand up to the test, that is.
Not much liberty, fraternity or equality round here.
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Some Gallic goals might cheer up the French, but they certainly won’t save Hollande.