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Apart from the half-empty stadiums, the extreme heat, pitch complaints and the hour-plus interruptions to matches due to lightning, the USA’s warm-up for 2026 went pretty smoothly with the Club World

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Lee Carsley leads his Young Lions side to European Under-21 Championship glory in Bratislava two years after success in Georgia

While some of Europe’s best young talents spent the summer in the US for the Club World Cup, there were plenty of other standout stars in action at the European U21 Championship, says Lukas Vrablik …

27 JULY