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Cristiano Ronaldo with Portugal, unstoppable but no longer so essential

His appearance in training yesterday with a swollen face could not better illustrate the bad moment Cristiano Ronaldo is going through. Hit in the nose by a botched start by Czech goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik early in the game on Saturday, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner suffered from start to finish in his team’s trip to …

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Italy wins in Hungary and joins the Final Four of the Nations League

The game: 0-2 The terrible night against North Macedonia (0-1), in the qualifying play-offs for the World Cup, on March 24, synonymous with the second consecutive failure to qualify for the final phase of a World Cup, will never be erased. But Italy, however, has treated this open wound a bit in recent months. By …

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Olivier Giroud, soon at the top of the ranking of scorers for the France team?

Olivier Giroud broke a record this Thursday, although he is still chasing another, much more prestigious, and which is getting closer. By scoring the second goal against Austria (2-0), the Milanese became the oldest goalscorer in the history of the French national team at 35 years and 357 days. The former Gunner overtakes Roger Marche, …

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