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Cristiano Ronaldo has a message for the Bernabéu crowd during Real Madrid’s Champions League quarter-final win against Bayern Munich. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images
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Neymar is presented as a Barcelona player in June 2013 – the legal fallout from the deal continues to this day. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images
![Race for Neymar: the Inside Story of How Barcelona Sealed the Controversial Deal](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/4256.jpg)
Race for Neymar: the Inside Story of How Barcelona Sealed the Controversial Deal
On a July evening in 2011 the football world’s focus was on the Vila Belmiro Stadium in Santos, which appears little changed from the days when a teenage Pelé lived in a dormitory under one of the stands. National-team coaches had arrived in Brazil before the World...Caption:
‘It will be fascinating to see how this compelling little sprite of a footballer finds room to grow and assert his will, a mere superstar in the presence of greatness.’ Illustration: Nathan Daniels for the Guardian
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Neymar Won’t leave Barcelona while He is Hovering Close to the Throne
Mourinho was surely right when he described the week’s most exciting transfer rumour, the notion Neymar might be lured to Manchester United, as “absurd”, “impossible” and “like trying to break into a safe”. Sadly for the Premier League, this must surely be the case....Caption:
Jermain Defoe celebrates his goal, his first for England for four years, scored midway through the first half in England’s 2-0 home win against Lithuania. Photograph: Sandra Mailer/Rex/Shutterstock
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Jermain Defoe Rolls Back the Years to Show England What They Have Missed
There was something very familiar about all this. The sight of a winger bustling to the byline and, even as he pulled the ball back across goal, being absolutely convinced the net would be billowing by the time his momentum had carried him on to the artificial turf...Caption:
Samir Nasri said Jamie Vardy should ‘play the game like a man’ after their altercation at the King Power Stadium. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
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