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Man City boss Pep Guardiola explains how Pele redefined football and the number 10 shirt

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola gave a glowing tribute to Pele, who sadly passed away this week in Brazil.

Manchester Evening News

Struggling Rangers facing acid Celtic test while tributes pour in for king of football Pele - Hotline

David McCarthy manned the phones as Dons fans called for Goodwin to go and Lenny to arrive.

Daily Record

Everton and Liverpool to pay respect to Pele as Premier League confirm tribute plans

Both Everton and Liverpool will pay their respect to Pele this weekend

Liverpool Echo

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It was a week of highs and lows in soccer: David Lowe

The great Lionel Messi and some lunatics at AAMI Park.

Newcastle Herald

Michael Beale is Rangers rear end kisser who only says what people want him to hear - Hotline

Fraser Wilson takes your calls after the greatest football show on earth drew to a close.

Daily Record

Dublin-based Argentine backs Lionel Messi to sign for hometown club Newell’s Old Boys

Former Newell's Old Boys player Fabian Costello, who hails from the same neighbourhood as Lionel Messi, watched Argentina's World Cup win on Sunday from his home in Glenageary, Co Dublin.

Irish Mirror

Kylian Mbappé nets World Cup final hat trick to prove his class, but there has to be a winner and a loser

Kylian Mbappé ultimately lost out in the FIFA World Cup final battle between himself and Lionel Messi, but his star is still very much on the rise as he proves himself a match for the all-time greats, even in defeat, writes Simon Smale.

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Maradona moment for Messi as Argentina beat France; heartbreak for hat-trick hero Mbappe

LUSAIL STADIUM: Lionel Messi had waited years, ages, millennia too maybe, to be anointed the greatest. He didn't need the World Cup to prove it. But like every other child in this world -- you, me, Maradona -- he wanted it.

The Times of India

Messi emulates Maradona in fairytale ending to a story like no other

Argentina’s maestro followed his hero in leading his country to the World Cup and completed his collection of titles

The Guardian - UK

Argentina fans erupt with joy after Messi wins 'best ever World Cup final'

Argentina lifted the World Cup in 2022 after a nail-biting final in Qatar, with icon Lionel Messi marking a record 26th appearance at a World Cup game with a stunning victory

Daily Mirror

Lionel Messi has finally won the FIFA World Cup, and can claim to be the greatest male footballer of all time

Football almost never delivers perfect narratives, so when it happens it's all the more impactful, writes Dan Colasimone.

ABC News

‘We’re going to win’: Argentina waits in hope for World Cup title

A nation battered by crises is coming together to cheer for Argentina as they face France in Sunday’s World Cup final.

Al Jazeera

Argentina-France World Cup final in Qatar: A clash for the ages

DOHA: What do you do when a football match ceases to be just a football match, and becomes cosmic activity? Does it remain football, just a sport or does it become a lifelong metaphor for greatness and immortality. How is it entered in the official records then? Just plain Match…

The Times of India

Messi vs Mbappe sees immoral World Cup set for an immortal conclusion

The 2022 World Cup final stands out because it is a rare deciding match between two of the great stars of the age

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

‘Our team will win’: how so many Indians started supporting Argentina

Better known for its love of cricket, every four years India and the wider region are gripped by World Cup fever

The Times of India

FIFA World Cup: Messi and Maradona kiss the sky as eternal final looms

DOHA: "After the game is before the game." When Sepp Herberger, counted as among football’s earliest philosophers, first uttered this strange truism of the game, he would never have thought it would ring so true ahead of a World Cup final nearly seven decades later.

Daily Mirror

Piers Morgan lays out "sheet of facts" why Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi starred as Argentina reached the World Cup final with a win over Croatia, but Piers Morgan still believes it is Cristiano Ronaldo who should be named the Greatest of All Time

The Independent UK

Messi fans overjoyed in south Asia after Argentina semi win

Argentina and Lionel Messi fans in India and Bangladesh are overjoyed after the soccer team secured its place in the World Cup final by beating Croatia

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The Guardian - UK

Lionel Messi sets up his shot at destiny with throwback brilliance

Argentina’s icon ran things again and took a step back in time to set up a clinching third goal as Croatia were swept aside

The Independent UK

Lionel Messi embraces ‘spirit of Maradona’ to drag beaten Argentina to World Cup semi-final

Messi has embraced responsibility with the Albiceleste growing after their ‘traumatic loss’ against Saudi Arabia

The Times of India

Messi invokes his inner Maradona as referee decides tie is a brawl

LUSAIL STADIUM: How do you claim a beautiful victory in an ugly game? Argentina were doing just that, late, late on Saturday.

The Guardian - UK

England’s World Cup quarter-finals: Maradona’s magic to the likable lads

Before their date with France, we look at how they fared in the previous nine, from beer poisoning to Lineker’s rescue act

Al Jazeera

‘Joy, sadness’: Football unites Argentina during World Cup 2022

Argentina’s fans hope for victory as they meet the Netherlands in World Cup quarter-final.

The Guardian - UK

‘Messi is liberated’: Jorge Valdano on Argentina, politics and his goal in ‘86

The former Argentina striker talks to Sid Lowe about his World Cup triumphs and heartbreaks, and the current side’s chances against the Netherlands

The Times of India

Decisions that changed the Cup's course

Controversies around VAR have been brewing in the horizon, but it truly spilled over on Thursday night when Spain lost to Japan 2-1, which led to the ouster of Germany from the group stages.

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