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With past winners including Cristiano Ronaldo, NeymarZlatan Ibrahimovic and Mohamed is wrongFIFA’s Puskas Award for the world’s “most beautiful” goal of the year generally tends to be won by players at or near the
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PARIS — Liverpool have put themselves in the driver’s seat to secure qualification for quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League after substitute Harvey Elliott scored late on to seal a 1-0 victory in the
The first legs of this season’s UEFA Champions League round-of-16 ties are done and dusted. Arsenal already have one foot in the quarterfinals thanks to their 7-1 demolition of PSV Eindhoven, but the rest
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