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Siddhanth Aney, Vaibhav Raghunandan
Best of 2018 FIFA World Cup: Goal, Player, Match, the Highs and Lows
18 Jul 2018
Newsclick sports desk lists out the best from the 2018 FIFA World Cup -- it indeed was difficult to pick one goal from the other, or one great match from the countless many good ones, such was the…
Leslie Xavier
Kylian Mbappe, the Future of Football? Not Yet
17 Jul 2018
Every FIFA World Cup throws up new names touted as the ones who will replace Lionel Messi and Cristinao Ronaldo and from Russia it is Kylian Mbappe. Unfortunately, one-off month long tournaments can…
Siddhanth Aney
France Win FIFA World Cup, Croatia Win Hearts in Dream Finale
16 Jul 2018
In the highest scoring FIFA World Cup final since the French demolished Brazil (1998), France proved their supremacy, and took home a FIFA World Cup they deserve, leaving Croatia in tears.
Siddhanth Aney
The Middle Path: Croatia, France's Midfield Magic Storms FIFA World Cup
15 Jul 2018
A successful FIFA World Cup campaign revolves not around individual stars, goal-scoring magnets or headline acts -- it boils down to the best partnership in the middle of the park and Croatia and…
Newsclick Report
Croatia vs France FIFA World Cup Final: Road to Summit Clash in Images
14 Jul 2018
Croatia football team won two penalty shootouts, and beat powerhouses England and Argentina; while France football team scalped Belgium and Uruguay among others to reach the FIFA World Cup summit…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
FIFA World Cup: A Beautiful Midfield’s Ugly Realities – the Croatian Irony
14 Jul 2018
Croatian football’s successes have always come from chaos, rather than order. The first came after a brutal war; the second, at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, has come from the survivors of the war, who…
Renedy Singh
FIFA World Cup: Croatia Too Good for England, Wily France Outfox Belgium
12 Jul 2018
Belgium were no match for Didier Deschamps’ evolved and flexible France, while the hugely creative midfield of Croatia exposed the one-dimensional England in the FIFA World Cup semi-finals.
Siddhanth Aney
Will France Play for Legacy or the Cup in the Final vs Croatia?
12 Jul 2018
Didier Deschamps’ France played a pragmatic, defensive football against Belgium in the FIFA World Cup semi-final, and that approach should, ideally, change in the final against Croatia, where it…
Renedy Singh
Why England are Not Favourites in FIFA World Cup Semi-final vs Croatia
10 Jul 2018
England lack the attacking flexibility that champion sides possess, and have been too one dimensional, reliant on their captain Harry Kane to eke out results at the FIFA World Cup.
Vaibhav Raghunandan
FIFA World Cup Semi-Finals: Of Golden Generations and Unfulfilled Destinies
09 Jul 2018
The sides from Belgium, Croatia and England at the FIFA World Cup semi-finals have neither been there nor done it before, rendering France as the favourites. But nothing’s certain when ‘golden…