FIFA distributes compensation to all clubs whose players have been called up for the tournament, based on the length of their stay overseas. In Italy, the clubs receiving the most compensation are Milan, Atalanta and Inter

A goal by Ferrán Torres in the 106th minute enabled the Spanish national team to lift their second World Cup in their history

The Belgian had never before won a mountain stage at the Tour de France. On the Plateau de Solaison, which featured on the Grande Boucle route for the first time today, he managed to finish ahead of Tadej Pogačar and Isaac Del Toro. Jonas Vingegaard withdrew after a crash

Tadej Pogačar won the fourteenth stage of the 2026 Tour de France. A stage that treated us to the spectacle of the Col du Haag, Richard Carapaz’s determination, Jonas Vingegaard’s desire to take centre stage, Remco Evenepoel’s tenacity and the talent of Paul Seixas and Isaac Del Toro

Sixty years ago in England, one of the darkest chapters in the history of the national team: the defeat against the Korean side that the UK’s institutions and the football authorities did not want to acknowledge

There is no historical evidence of Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi’s telephone call to the Tuscan cyclist; what is certain is that, at the 1948 Tour de France, Ginettaccio restored a sense of national pride to Italians that had been shattered by the wounds of the Second World War

Football turns coincidences into destiny: from the washing-up bowl to the World Cup. And the same goes for Scaloni and De la Fuente: one waited almost ten years within the Federation, the other was only supposed to stay for two matches

El Pibe de Oro could only be stopped by physical force. For this reason, I believe he is unrivalled. The isolation of the number 10 mirrors his 1986 match, even before any of Lionel Messi’s, including the American final he heroically won at the age of forty

At 38, with two children, Arianna is preparing for her 14th World Championships: “Now every race is a gift: if I win, it’s a unique sense of fulfilment; if I don’t, I no longer see it as a failure”