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The greatest comebacks in World Cup history
From Portugal against North Korea in 1966 to the Miracle of Bern, some matches looked lost and ended in glory. The comebacks nobody saw coming.
Roger Milla and Africa's awakening: Cameroon 1990
At 38 and with a dance by the corner flag, Roger Milla took Cameroon to the Italia 90 quarter-finals, Africa's best result until then. And at 42 he would still score at a World Cup.
The World Cup trophy: from the Jules Rimet Cup to the FIFA Cup
The first trophy was stolen and never found; the current one, by Silvio Gazzaniga, has been awarded since 1974. The story of the two trophies that have crowned world champions.
The other World Cup: Spain make their debut at the Special Olympics Unified Football World Cup in Paris
Some debuts are written on the skin long before you step onto the pitch. Spain's Special Olympics side —sixteen athletes with and without intellectual disabilities— play the Unified Football World Cup for the first time, a tournament that kicks off today in Paris and runs until Saturday the 11th. Spain begin on Tuesday against India in Group B.
England survive to knock Mexico out at the Azteca (3-2): a Bellingham double and a win with ten men
Jude Bellingham struck twice in four minutes (36', 38') and Harry Kane settled it from the spot, but England had to dig deep: they played almost 40 minutes a man down after Quansah's red card and Mexico —through Quiñones and Jiménez— came within a whisker of levelling. The Three Lions meet Norway in the quarters; the hosts bow out in their own stadium.
Andrés Escobar, the tragedy that cast a shadow over the 1994 World Cup
The Colombian defender scored an own goal in the defeat to the United States that knocked his team out; ten days later he was murdered in Medellín. He was 27.