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The Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal game at the Cape Town Stadium, built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is set to break the attendance record of 35,681 for a tennis match set by Kim Clijsters and Serena Williams in 2010 in Brussels

A member of the Croatian team that reached the semi-finals of the 1998 World Cup, Igor Stimac is undoubtedly one of the most high-profile names to have managed India, but the start hasn't been impressive

India are all set to take on Oman here for their first encounter of the qualifying campaign for the FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022 and the AFC Asian Cup, China 2023. The hosts have never won against the visitors in a FIFA-recognised match

The official unveiling of FIFA World Cup 2022 emblem took place in Qatar’s capital, Doha, at 20:22 local time, with thousands of spectators witnessing the synchronised projection of the emblem onto a number of the country’s most iconic buildings

'Realistically, Qatar and Oman are the favourites in our group. We have never won an official match against either of them. So it's not going to be easy at all. In Guwahati we are going to give everything on the pitch, aiming to win it,' India coach Igor Stimac said

China, the host country for the Asian Cup 2023, would have to navigate past Syria, Philippines, Maldives and Guam in Group A in their bid for a second appearance in the FIFA World Cup Finals.

England’s global ambitions have never been fully realised since Sir Alf Ramsey’s team won the 1966 FIFA World Cup. Whether it is Gary Linekar or Hary Kane, the ‘Cup’ that they desperately want never came home during the last five and half decades

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With the year drawing to a close, let us turn the pages backward and look at instances when our favourite teams from different sports bit the dust 

It has been backed by facts that Ronaldo was the fastest player at FIFA World Cup 2018, clocking a speed of 33.98 kmph. He has a body fat of just seven percent and a muscle mass of 50 percent

Neymar said: 'I wouldn't go as far as to say I didn't want to play again but, I didn't want to see a ball, or to see any more football played'

While the Bachchan boys watched the finals live in Moscow, Aishwarya enjoyed the broadcast from her hotel in Paris and joined Abhishek later in London