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Can England go all the way at Qatar 2022? Developments in recent years suggest that they will be one of the main contenders England’s lone FIFA World Cup win was achieved 54 years ago today Winning the FIFA World Cup™ is the dream of many players and many a team, but in the competition’s 90-year history, only eight countries have… Read More

​On This Day in 1930 Uruguay became winners of the very first FIFA World Cup The teams squabbled over whether to use an Argentinian or Uruguay ball ‘The One-Armed One’ sealed victory for his country The Men’s Olympic Football Tournament Paris 1924 was a landmark in the history of the game, the first official competition in which national teams from… Read More

Iconic Final to be premiered on FIFA’s YouTube Channel Broadcast will feature interviews with former stars It will also feature previously unseen footage from Wembley Stadium On its 54th anniversary, England’s dramatic 1966 FIFA World Cup Final win over West Germany will be broadcast in full on the FIFA YouTube Channel on Thursday 30 July at 16:00 CEST. Fans across… Read More

Fuad Anwar scored Saudi Arabia’s first-ever goal at the World Cup Midfielder appeared in two editions of the global showpiece 1994 generation considered by many as the best Saudi Arabian team When Jorge Solari’s Saudi Arabia side arrived in the USA in the summer of 1994 for the FIFA World Cup™, expectations were not especially high given that it was… Read More

Bolanos named league’s best player in Costa Rica at age of 36 Player ready for any challenge with national team “Costa Rica facing their toughest qualifying competition” Many felt there was no way back for Costa Rican Christian Bolanos in December 2017, when he announced he had failed to agree a contract renewal with Vancouver Whitecaps. Some went as far… Read More

Al Bayt Stadium has become the second FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ tournament venue to achieve a five-star sustainability rating. The 60,000-capacity stadium in the northern city of Al Khor, which will host the opening match of Qatar 2022, received the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS) certification from the Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD). Al Bayt received three… Read More

Guam captain Jason Cunliffe has seen the east Asian nation make notable progress The national team’s most-capped player is showing little sign of slowing down The Matao set to resume Qatar 2022 qualifiers later this year At 36, most strikers are slowing down. Don’t count Guam’s most-capped player, record marksman and captain among them. The Micronesian territory lost 1-0 to… Read More

Rapidly-improving Malaysia enjoy massive support at home Malayan Tigers’ midfielder Brendan Gan has become a key figure “It is amazing to be a part of and quite life-changing” Go to any pub, bar or restaurant in Malaysia and there is a good chance there will be a football match on. Often it is the English Premier League or a major… Read More

Ibrahim Amada started as a playmaker before switching to defensive midfield His outstanding performances helped Madagascar reach the AFCON quarter-finals He dreams of helping his country reach the next FIFA World Cup As football has developed in recent years, a growing number of coaches have focused on creating a solid defensive base before moving on to their attack. In this… Read More

Englishman Jamie Day took the reins of Bangladesh in 2018 “We’ve come a long way over the past two years” Bengal Tigers eyeing further improvement in remaining Qatar 2022 qualifiers “We have to be realistic,” Bangladesh coach Jamie Day told FIFA.com last year before the start of Asia’s second qualifying round for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, in which… Read More