In Buenos Aires, for their first home game since winning the World Cup in Qatar, Argentina won on the night of Thursday to Friday in a friendly match against Panama (2-0). Largely dominating, the flock of Lionel Scaloni waited for the start of the last quarter of an hour to open the scoring thanks to...
Tag: World Cup 2022
Lionel Messi, Angel Di Maria and Giovanni Lo Celso among those called up for Argentina’s next two games
Lionel Scaloni, the coach of the Argentina national team, communicated this Friday a list of 35 players for the next two meetings of the Albiceleste: two friendly matches, on March 23 at the Monumental in Buenos Aires against Panama, then on March 28 against Curaçao in Santiago del Estero, north of Cordoba. The reigning world...
2022 World Cup: Uruguay and Cavani sanctioned by FIFA
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee sanctioned the Uruguayan Federation and four of its players on Friday for incidents during the World Cup group stage match, won against Ghana (2-0) but not far enough to overtake South Korea, 2nd in Group H and qualified for the round of 16. judged “responsible for the discriminatory behavior of its...
Nicolas Tagliafico: “Emiliano Martinez is a good guy, and a bit crazy…”
World champion with Argentina, OL left-back Nicolas Tagliafico returned, at a press conference on Friday, to the controversy surrounding the celebration of certain Argentinian players, and in particular Emiliano Martinez, the Aston Villa goalkeeper , who had used his best goalkeeper trophy like a phallic objectbefore lugging a doll in the likeness of Kylian Mbappé...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic denounces the behavior of the Argentines during the World Cup
A Roman on the radio? Zlatan Ibrahimovic was the guest of France Inter’s morning show this Wednesday, along with Guillaume Canet, to talk about the theatrical release on February 1 of the film “Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Empire”, directed by Canet and in which the Swede plays the role of Antivirus, the right arm...
Three investigations opened in France for suspicion of espionage by Qatar
Three preliminary investigations have been opened in France, including one after a complaint was lodged by former UEFA boss Michel Platini, following the investigation by the Sunday Times in November on suspicion of spying by Qatar, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday, confirming information from the World. The former number 10 of the France...
The trial of the seven indicted following France-Morocco again postponed
France ended up beating Morocco, 2-0, without extra time, for a place in the World Cup final. December 14 stretched out in collective joy, with no real beats… We will have to wait until at least next September 8 to, perhaps, find out what Marc De Cacqueray Valmenier, and some trip comrades, were planning in...
2022 World Cup: FIFA opens proceedings against Argentina and Croatia
FIFA announced on Friday that it had opened two procedures: one against Argentina, following the World Cup final against Franceand the other against Croatia, on the sidelines of their match for 3rd place against Morocco. The international body accuses the South Americans of breaches of articles 11 (offensive behavior and violation of the principles of...
Jonathan Clauss after his non-selection for the World Cup: “I did not have the words”
It is a necessarily painful ordeal that Jonathan Clauss had to go through last November. Regularly present in the lists of Didier Deschamps in 2022, the right side of OM (6 selections) was not retained by the coach of the Blues to compete in the World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year....
Kane digested his missed penalty against France, never forgetting it
England captain Harry Kane assured, in an interview with theEvening Standard, that his missed penalty in the World Cup against France in the quarter-finals (1-2) will remain with him for the rest of his life, but without affecting him. The Tottenham center-forward had first scored his 53rd goal in an England jersey (Wayne Rooney’s record...