4 June 2022,
Before the world cup starts, the annual European awards are announced. The Best Player of Europe this year is Kazuo Kogure from Japan. He had an amazing season at AS Roma, playing 53 games, scoring 22 goals, giving 14 assists, and an average rating of 7,88. The European Golden Shoe goes to
Harry Cozens, who has scored 28 league goals for Manchester City last season. The 2nd and 3rd place go to
Michael Wilson and
Bornexplorer, who have both scored 22 league goals.
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10 June 2022,
It's time for the FIFA World Cup of 2022, hosted in Qatar! 32 countries will be challenging to win the most prestigious trophy in the world of football. 12 of our players were called up for this World Cup to lead their team to glory.
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Harry Cozens personally shot his team to the World Cup by scoring 17 goals in the Asian qualifiers. So did
Michael Harris and
Nemanja Markovic, both scoring 8 goals in the European qualifiers.
Ryan Kimbrell and
Ricardo Peraza led the rankings in the North American qualifiers, scoring 14 and 13 goals for their country.
The group draw was already in December of last year, lets have a look at the highlights.
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In pot 1 is Qatar, the host for this World Cup, together with the highest ranked countries from around the world. The favorites to win this World Cup are Spain, Brazil, and Italy.
Spain has won the previous World Cup, and will be trying to defend their title.
Brazil is number one on the world rankings right now, and has won the Confederations Cup last year.
Italy was runner up in the previous World Cup, losing to Spain, but they did win the European Championship two years later by beating, guess who, Spain.
Here goes the group draw!
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Is there a group of death? Will your country make it through to the second round? Find out next time...
Question of the day:
Yesterday I asked you to which club Cristiano Ronaldo went. FMrize and bornexplorer88 almost had it right by saying he went to Benfica or Sporting. but the answer is
FC Porto!
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Today's question: Lionel Messi is now 34 years old and is still playing at Barcelona. But how high is his value?