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
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1930 Trust your own The final brought grudging neighbours Uruguay and Argentina to face off in an air of mutual distrust in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. So much so that one half of the match was played with an Uruguayan ball and the other with an Argentinian one.