‼️ HISTORIC ‼️
Morocco 🇲🇦 become the FIRST nation in World Cup history to field 11 players born OUTSIDE the country at the same time:
🇪🇸 Hakimi, Saibari, Riad
🇫🇷 Issa Diop, El Aynaoui, Bouaddi, El Mourabet
🇧🇪 Talbi, El Khannouss
🇳🇱 Mazraoui
🇨🇦 Bono
🚨🇶🇦 Qatar's Public Investment Fund has announced that Boualem Khoukhi will receive $3M and the latest Rolls-Royce Phantom worth $550,000 after scoring the equalizer against Switzerland today at the World Cup. 🤑💰
It was only the second goal Qatar has ever scored in the tournament. ⚽
Ghana’s government is threatening legal action against Canada after the country denied a visa to midfielder Thomas Partey, 32.
Partey faces seven counts of alleged r*pe and one count of alleged sexual assault in the United Kingdom involving four women between 2020 and 2022. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges and his trial is not scheduled to begin until June 2027.
Brazil v Morocco is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries are outside Europe, but share a land border with a European state.
Brazil borders France in the Amazon. Morocco borders Spain at Ceuta and Melilla.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
I love how Canadians, who have watched their leaders destroy their country in real time over the last 30 years boo the United States because they think Trump caused their pain.
English born XI in the WC, but play for other nationalities .
GK - Owen Goodman🇨🇦
RB - Aaron Wan-Bissaka🇨🇩
CB - Luc De Fougerolles 🇨🇦
CB - Axel Tuanzabe🇨🇩
LB - Jerome Opoku 🇬🇭
CM - Scott McTominay 🏴
CM - Zidane Iqbal 🇮🇶
CM - Gio Reyna🇺🇸
RW - Michael Olise 🇫🇷
CF - Erling Haaland 🇳🇴
LW - Antoine Semenyo 🇬🇭
Probs missed some.
Haiti v Scotland is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries occupy the smaller, mountainous part of a major island shared with a larger neighbour.
Haiti has western Hispaniola. Scotland has northern Great Britain.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.