FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
At its best and its worst, the FIFA World Cup is more thrilling than any other event can conjure up. A live performance unequalled in its vigour and trickery, the thralling geometry of its movement a mere foil to the violent earnestness of its combat. From 1930 to 2022, from Pele to Zidane to Mbappe, here's a walk down the lanes of the history of the beautiful game
1930 A goal that set the ball rolling In the nineteenth minute of the inaugural world cup’s opening game in Uruguay, Frenchman Lucien Laurent collected a high cross from the right wing and let it rip past the Mexican goalkeeper Oscar Bonfiglio, buckling the net. Lucien earned a special place, marking the first goal ever scored at the 1930 World Cup.