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
2018 The future was here and it was electric France, the second-youngest team in the tournament captured the sport’s biggest prize in 2018. 19-year-old Kylian Mbappe’s blistering acceleration was electric, helping France win a thriller with a goal which made him the second-youngest player to score in a final after Pele. In the quarterfinal against Argentina, Mbappe had already matched another Pele feat by becoming only the second teenager to score two goals in a World Cup match. Hearing this, Pele tweeted “If Kylian keeps equalling my records like this, I may have to dust my boots off again.”