football

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Players will also have the chance to enter a prize draw to win an official World Cup football signed by members of the BBC World Cup team.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

That’s why he’d rather put his focus on the Homeless World Cup, an annual international street football tournament that advocates an end to homelessness globally.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

In its heyday in the 1970s, a third of the total television viewing audience tuned in on Sunday evening, not all of them having simply left the TV on after the football.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

I had a young family, a wife and a one-year-old daughter, so I decided to say 'I love football and it's my living but I'll walk away from it'.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

We’ve reached the football fields where we go our separate ways, and we’re in the middle of saying goodbye when it happens.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler