THE 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup will begin in Qatar on Nov 20 with the host nation taking on Ecuador at the Al Bayt Stadium, the farthest venue from central Doha.
QATAR: England defender Conor Coady said on Thursday that temperatures at the World Cup in Qatar are certainly much hotter than those experienced back home but it is time the players embraced the heat ...
DOHA: Senegal star Sadio Mane has lost his race to be fit for the 2022 World Cup and has been withdrawn from their squad, the country’s football federation announced on Thursday.
DOHA: Indian drums drowned out Argentina’s diehard fans as hundreds waited hours to get a glimpse of a bus carrying Lionel Messi outside his World Cup team base in Qatar.
QUITO: The Ecuadoran football federation said Tuesday that defender Byron Castillo had been left out of the nation’s World Cup squad to avoid further “unfair sanctions” in a dispute over the player’s nationality. ...
CENTRAL COAST MARINERS coach Nick Montgomery labelled Australia’s World Cup-bound teenager Garang Kuol “lethal” as the forward signed off from A-League action with a brace from the bench against Macarthur ...
CENTRAL DEFENDER Milos Degenek does not believe Australia will gain an advantage at the World Cup from having played regularly in host nation Qatar’s air-conditioned stadiums during the qualifying rounds ...