Category Archives: World Cup
Tim Farrell thinks he has the perfect replacement to the penalty shootout. He just needs someone to listen.
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Hungary’s “Golden Team” was so good it took Russian tanks to stop it.
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When goalkeeper Gordon Banks magically denied Pelé’s explosive header during England’s World Cup match with Brazil, he launched a 47-year debate about why this extraordinary save was the best ever.
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Inside the history of the Russian city that best explain why Putin wants to host the World Cup
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At the 1982 World Cup, only one team could beat Brazil—and it wasn’t Italy.
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New Jersey’s soccer-mad governor Phil Murphy opens up about the 2018 World Cup, the future of soccer in the U.S., and how the beautiful game can bridge the broad divides in American politics.
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The French star could maraud the pitch like football’s haunted elite, but instead Griezmann plays the game with a delightful brand of footballing innocence. It could cast him as the surprise French star of the World Cup.
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The mystery of why the Soviet Union’s greatest player, Eduard Streltsov, was sent to the gulag instead of to a meeting with Pelé at the 1958 World Cup.
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Follow the World Cup with Eight by Eight, now on Apple News!
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Manchester United’s David De Gea has become the undisputed no. 1 goalkeeper. Can he help lead Spain to a second world cup victory in eight years?
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A conversation with Adam Sobel about his documentary, The Workers Cup, which tells the hidden stories of Qatar’s migrant workers.
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When the magical and mononymous men from Brazil appeared from another world in 1958, they played football in a way no one ever knew it could be played.
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Men in Blazer’s Roger Bennett previews American Fiasco, a new podcast from WNYC Studios about the United States’ calamitous 1998 World Cup campaign Read More
Post it proudly at work, at home, your favorite footy bar, or wherever you’ll be watching the biggest sporting event on the planet
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The best writing, art, and design in the football world is here just in time to get you ready for the world’s biggest sporting event.
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Louisa Nécib is the next coming of Zinedine Zidane—and she’s ready to lead Les Bleues to glory Read More
Newspapers around the world slammed FIFA after several of the governing body”s high-ranking officials were arrested in a long-running investigation by the United States Department of Justice
It’s time to party in the Great White North
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In an exclusive interview ahead of the women’s World Cup, Eight by Eight’s Andrew Helms caught up with U.S. Women’s National Team star Kelley O’Hara to hear about how the U.S. team is getting ready to win it all in Canada
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How country girl Megan Rapinoe came to rule U.S. soccer
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For Luke Shaw, the transformation is taking its time
Which United States national team player has swapped kits with Zlatan, James, and Falcao in the past year? Eight by Eight’s Andrew Helms sat down with Alejandro Bedoya in Boston last week and talked about his impressive European career, the future of the U.S. team, and how to lead over 38,000 Frenchmen in song. Does he have your attention now?
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The World Cup in Brazil might be over, but these stunning instances of art, design, and photography will always remain.
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A special collaboration between Eight by Eight and VICE Sports.
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Even after 101 years, the United States has failed to develop a national playing style. If Jurgen Klinsmann wants to do so, he should look, unconventionally, south.
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