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Ciro Immobile’s 13 goals for Lazio in all competitions this season are bettered only by Lionel Messi across Europe’s top five leagues. Photograph: Filippo Venezia/EPA
by Paolo Bandini | Oct 12, 2017 | Sports
London — There was a time when Italians might have been insulted by the suggestion of theirs being the third-best football league in Europe. Serie A was always il campionato più bello del mondo – the most beautiful championship in the world. How else to describe a...
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Spain’s goalkeeper Iker Casillas, left, Andres Iniesta, center, and Fernando Torres walk off the field after their World Cup 2014 Group B soccer match against Chile at the Estádio Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, on June 18, 2014. (Reuters/Jorge Silva)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 19, 2014 | Sports
Belo Horizonte, Reuters—Holders Spain crashed humiliatingly out of the World Cup on Wednesday after a second shock defeat while 2010 runners-up the Netherlands continued their perfect start with another high-scoring win. Thrashed 5–1 by the Dutch in their opening...
