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🚨 Chelsea launch a home kit with a yellow lion crest today.

It marks 30 years since the first-ever Chelsea home kit with yellow logos was worn in 1995-1997.

You can buy yours here: https://t.co/myOglr6ItZ

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🚨 Didier Deschamps is the only man to win the World Cup as captain and manager. He lifted it as France captain in 1998. He won it as France manager in 2018.

This is his final tournament.

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🚨 Curaçao are the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup. Population: 152,000. That's smaller than the capacity of the Camp Nou.

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🚨 Mexico will become the first country to host the World Cup 3 times. 1970. 1986. 2026. Not Brazil. Not Germany. Not Italy. Mexico.

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🚨 Argentina are attempting to win back-to-back World Cups. Only Italy (1934, 1938) and Brazil (1958, 1962) have done it. No team has achieved this in 64 years.

History vs. complacency.

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🚨 Brazil have won 5 World Cups. More than any nation. Their last title? 2002. The gap is now 24 years. That's the same drought they endured between 1970 and 1994. History repeating.

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🚨 Igor Thiago has 23 combined goals and assists in the Premier League this season. The most by any Brazilian in Europe's top five leagues.

Read that again.

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🚨 Brazil are the ONLY nation in football history to play in every World Cup. 23 tournaments. 23 appearances. 1930 to 2026.

No other country has done this. Not one.

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🚨Messi, Ronaldo and Guillermo Ochoa will become the first players in history to participate in six editions of the World Cup if they play any minutes at the 2026 tournament.
Messi holds the record with 26 World Cup appearances. Ronaldo is on 22. Ochoa is on 11

Legends of the game.

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🚨Italy missed out on three consecutive World Cups after failing to qualify for 2026. They are the only former champion not at the tournament. Four World Cup titles. The only nation alongside Germany to win it four times.

Extra pasta, extra TV time coming up.

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🚨 Mexico will host the opening match of the World Cup for the third time in history. The Estadio Azteca becomes the first stadium ever to stage three World Cup opening matches: 1970, 1986, and 2026. The last stadium to host two? None.

History belongs to one.

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🚨 Lamine Yamal led the entire Champions League with 12 big chances created this season along with 6 goals, 4 assists in the Champions League this season. Yet, Arda Guler is voted best young player of the tournament.

Was Yamal more deserving of the prize?

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🚨 Countries with the most World Cup appearances.
Germany
Brazil
Argentina

Numbers don't lie.

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🚨 Lionel Messi holds the all-time record with 26 World Cup appearances. He's at USA 2026.
At 38 years old, he could extend a record that has already stood for four years.

No player in history has ever played in a sixth World Cup and won it.

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🚨 Argentina will try to win back-to-back World Cups at USA 2026.
Brazil in 1962 were the last team to defend the trophy.

That's 64 years ago.

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🚨 Neymar hasn't played for Brazil since October 2023. 979 days without the Seleção. 34 years old. Coming off knee surgery. Named in the World Cup squad anyway. Brazil's all-time leading scorer with 79 goals. Carlo Ancelotti chose experience over form.

History over fitness.

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🚨 Ousmane Dembélé has 8 goals in 13 Champions League games this season. The Ballon d'Or holder scored in the final. The first player since Cristiano Ronaldo in 2017 to do that.

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🚨 Arsenal became the first team in Champions League history to reach the final unbeaten through 14 matches in a single campaign. 11 wins. 3 draws. 0 defeats. Then lost the final on penalties.

Perfect until it mattered most.

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🚨 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has scored 10 Champions League goals this season from just 4.81 xG. The biggest xG overperformance in the competition. He doesn't need high-quality chances to punish you.

More than efficient.

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🚨 PSG have won 6 penalty shootouts in a row under Luis Enrique. Yesterday Arsenal vs PSG today. Marseille (Trophée des Champions). Every single one. They don't miss when it counts.

Clinical.