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By Vivem Soriano Eagle News Service The group stage is over and now only 16 teams remain in the battle for global football superiority as the FIFA World Cup round-of-16 kicks off tonight with two titanic matches. 1998 winners France will battle 1978 and 1986 champions Argentina at the Kazan Arena in Kazan at 10:00 PM (GMT +8), the first game of the knockout stages. France topped Group C during the group stage with a […]
by Justin DAVIS MILAN, Italy (AFP) — Andrea Belotti could further underline his status as Italy’s current go-to striker when the Azzurri host Germany in a San Siro clash that should produce the usual fireworks between the European giants. Having marked his full debut with the opener in a 3-1 World Cup qualifying win over Macedonia last month, the Torino striker pressed his case with a first Italy brace in a 4-0 rout of Liechtenstein on Saturday. […]
(Reuters) — Russia’s preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup are in full swing as the country gets 11 cities ready to host the tournament in three years time. The Local Organising Committee are currently showing journalists around the 11 World Cup cities to show how the work is going. Construction is underway in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod city, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) east of Moscow, where a gleaming new soccer stadium is under construction […]
