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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.

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Lionel Messi powers Argentina into final, his last shot at World Cup glory

DOHA: Lionel Messi is in a place we all want to be in but know we just can't. He's always that half foot ahead of you, your insides turning as he twists this way and that providing needle-eye passes for kids on his team 10 years younger, to fire.

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Messi kills us softly with his song, then drops the bombshell

DOHA: That day, we ate our dinner in silence. In some parts of the world, it would qualify as breakfast. Maybe it did in this one too. Crack of dawn, a run-down, never run-out eatery in the neighbourhood, but in the time zones of our minds, it was dinner. We…

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FIFA World Cup 2022: Our system needs an overhaul, says Germany coach Hansi Flick

DOHA: “I’m afraid of falling into a hole.” Joshua Kimmich would only be humanizing his condition the morning after Germany couldn’t stop itself from hurtling down the rabbit-path.

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Belgium decline mirrors the vagaries of time

DOHA: Football can be funny. On Thursday, one of the brightest generations in the modern game faced the realities of age and time, and perhaps, underachievement at the highest level.

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FIFA World Cup: Young ones staking a claim to centrestage

DOHA: Cristiano Ronaldo landed and soon came the swipe, that good, old-fashioned snark, when a TV commentator described the star as “the unemployed footballer” as he was leading his team in the second half against Ghana. He was alluding, of course, to the termination of the star’s contract with Manchester…

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FIFA World Cup 2022: Maradona and Mexico as two different ideas for Argentina

DOHA: Maradona and Mexico. Argentina’s pre-match talk with the press resonated with these two words here on Friday. Up until now, the words had sat happily beside each other, becoming a world by itself and getting a life of its own. And importantly, staying that way for 36 years.

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FIFA World Cup 2022: Vacant spaces, Indian bulwark and Diego Maradona’s permanent absence

DOHA: “Mohammad?” The lady volunteer handing out accreditations tentatively asked, holding up a card and looking at the sparse bunch of journalists in the waiting area. Directed at nobody but since one was straight in her line of vision, it would have been impolite not to reply. So, “No, Mountain.”

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Airlines pledge to stabilise rocky recovery

DOHA: Global airlines wrapped up an annual summit on Tuesday by pledging to overcome operational problems that have marred the industry's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

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