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...Lionel Messi has taken to Chinese social media to apologise to “mainland Chinese and Hong Kong football fans” after the Argentine star sat out a much-anticipated friendly fixture in Hong Kong....
...Lionel Messi has taken to social media to apologise to “mainland Chinese and Hong Kong football fans” after the Argentine star sat out a much-anticipated friendly fixture in Hong Kong....
...Knighthoods are given to individuals who make a “pre-eminent contribution in any field of activity”....
...McClory acknowledges that shares in the 14 companies it took public last year — including a group marketing Lionel Messi-inspired sportswear and a start-up that sells pills to treat erectile dysfunction...
...Violence in Argentina The birthplace of well-known figures from revolutionary Che Guevara to football superstar Lionel Messi, Rosario has more recently become known for a different reason: it has transformed...
...Plus we’re picking through the ruins of Lionel Messi’s ill-fated tour of Asia....
...On Saturday night, Lionel Messi will play surely his last match for Paris Saint-Germain, against little Clermont. He has been looking as if he can’t wait to finish....
...Lionel Messi wows crowds with his performances for Inter Miami while US investors have poured capital into European football teams....
...Those who make the team can say they played against some of the best players in the world, and race to swap shirts with the biggest name on the field....
...In that crowded field it was the French-educated Ali Bongo, one of seven “official sons” and a jazz-funk musician, who emerged as his successor....
...That garden’s owner was Lionel Fortescue, a retired schoolmaster from Eton College, who turned it into a charity as a means of running it tax-free....
...“What people want, what owners want, what the fans want is a level playing field....
...In addition to offering rich signing bonuses to players, fields were limited to 48 players and to 54 holes played over three days, both more modest than traditional professional competitions....
...No matter how proud of the team’s performance on the field and desirous to see the same values and principles that turned a dream into reality applied to the government, Lionel Messi’s compatriots were already...
...Did Lionel Messi need to win a World Cup to be the best? “What? No!” replied Diego Maradona at his kitchen table in 2014....
...These included Money (1984), a satire about Thatcher’s consumerist society, London Fields and The Information....
...France 3 Argentina 3 (after extra time) Argentina win 4-2 on penalties This was the ending that Lionel Messi deserved....
...How about this, from London Fields, about a miserable marriage: “When Hope called his name — ‘Guy?’ — and he replied Yes? there was never any answer, because his name meant Come here.”...
...“However, we cannot put our players in the situation where they might be booked or even forced to leave the field of play.”...
...In Bondy, crowds painted in French tricolours watched the World Cup final on a big screen erected on his old football field. Inevitably, he scored....
...He knew he wasn’t as good as Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo but such motivational tactics — what he described as “the will to surpass yourself” — were necessary....
...Argentina’s victory in the World Cup final was the crowning moment of Lionel Messi’s career, and possibly the greatest match of all time. Off the field of play, record-breaking deals just kept coming....
...Cristiano Ronaldo’s first game in Saudi Arabia looks set to pit him against Lionel Messi’s PSG....
...In just over 24 hours from now, France and Argentina will take to the field for the World Cup final at Lusail Stadium in Doha....
...Officials also hope the World Cup will boost tourism — groups of Argentines now visit Doha to trace the steps of their victorious captain, Lionel Messi — as it seeks to become a magnet for family-oriented...
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