2026 World Cup

[Tonyschin]

The good old days or is that the bad old days.
Derby games (games between close neighbours) were fiercely contested.

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[Twelvefret]

" The U.S. players say it didn’t matter … and that’s what they would say. But it certainly mattered to the Belgians, who played with a sense of greater stakes: that they were defending the game against crude intrusions of political power. "
Rowan Richardo Phillips

 

[Twelvefret]

I read the play analysis and my head begins to hurt. I do not doubt there are strategies, but I also think there is creative genius that might appear as strategy.