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CNN — As he sprinted away to the corner flag with his arms spread wide on Monday, Cristiano Ronaldo thought he’d leveled Portugal great Eusebio’s record as the nation’s all-time World Cup scorer.His teammates bundled onto him as they celebrated with the 37-year-old, while commentators and pundits praised him for getting the slightest of touches on Bruno Fernandes’ cross to divert the ball past the Uruguayan goalkeeper.Ronaldo had his second goal in as many games at the 2022 World Cup and his ninth for Portugal at World Cups. Or so we thought. As the party atmosphere in the Lusail Iconic…

The families of Iran’s World Cup soccer team have been threatened with imprisonment and torture if the players fail to “behave” ahead of the match against the USA on Tuesday, a source involved in the security of the games said. Following the refusal of Iranian players to sing the nation’s national anthem in their opening match against England on November 21, the source said that the players were called to a meeting with members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The source said that they were told that their families would face “violence and and torture” if they did not sing the…

CNN — World Cup chief Hassan Al-Thawadi said that between 400 and 500 migrant workers have died as a result of work done on projects connected to the tournament – a greater figure than Qatari officials have cited previously. In an interview with Piers Morgan which aired on TalkTV on Monday, Al-Thawadi was asked about the number of fatalities to migrant workers as a result of the work done in the tournament and said: “The estimate is around 400, between 400 and 500. “I don’t have the exact number, that’s something that’s been discussed. One death is too many, it’s as simple as that.”…

The U.S. men’s national team faces a must-win situation against Iran in its World Cup Group B finale, after tying Wales and England in its previous two games.Iran, meanwhile, only needs a draw against the USMNT to advance out of the group stage for the first time in its history. After getting trounced 6-2 by England in its World Cup opener, Iran rebounded for a 2-0 win over Wales.The USMNT must also exorcise some demons. Iran famously defeated the U.S. 2-1 in a 1998 World Cup match in France that eliminated the Americans.Group A will also kick off its final…

The 2022 FIFA world cupcontinues Tuesday with Group A taking center stage early, as Ecuador (1-1-0) takes on Senegal (1-0-1) at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, and we’ve got you covered with all the action! You can watch this game on FS1 and every match of the tournament on the FOX Sports family of networks — the tournament’s official English-language broadcast partner in the U.S. — and the FOX Sports app and FOXSports.com. You can also stream full-match replays for free on Tubi. Here are the top plays! Ecuador vs. Senegal Setting the stage Ecuador is aiming to secure its place in the knockout stage for only…

FIFA WORLD CUP 202 9 HOURS AGO SHARE MartinMartin Rogers FOX SPORTS INSIDER DOHA, Qatar — Cristiano Ronaldo did what Cristiano Ronaldo does on Monday, delivering the goal that sent Portugal surging through to the knockout stages of the World Cup. Or so it seemed for a minute or two at Lusail Stadium, as Ronaldo celebrated like a goalscorer until it was revealed that Bruno Fernandes had in fact provided the decisive blow that now looks likely to determine the outcome of Group H. Does it really matter? Isn’t it always about Ronaldo? The world’s most famous soccer player is always in the news, whether he is…

AL RAYYAN, Qatar – It’s the story surrounding the U.S. men’s national team that Gregg Berhalter wishes would stop being talked about. The curious case of Giovanni Reyna. The 20-year-old winger has been a hot-button topic since before the World Cup began, and not by his own doing. Reyna – the closest thing to U.S. Soccer royalty as the son of two-time U.S. World Cup captain Claudio Reyna and former U.S. women’s national team player Danielle Egan – is one of the brightest young stars on a team full of bright stars. He figured to play a huge role for…

Has Canelo Alvarez lost it?The Mexican super middleweight champion has threatened to hurt soccer superstar Lionel Messi for disrespecting Mexico following Argentina’s 2-0 victory in the World Cup on Saturday in Qatar. .Messi moved a Mexican jersey with his foot during a celebration in his team’s locker room, which Alvarez took as an insult. He said in so many words that one of the greatest soccer players of all time should watch his back. Imagine a boxer or MMA fighter threatening to beat up NFL star Tom Brady for a perceived lack of respect. That would be the equivilent. Messi…

When Ramin Rezaeian scored his first World Cup goal to seal Iran’s victory over Wales last week — just the country’s second tournament win in 24 years — it should have been a moment of pure joy. Yet Rezaeian tweeted afterward that he didn’t know “whether to laugh or cry” — feeling trapped along with his teammates between a government that views their success as a propaganda tool and Iranian protesters mounting the most dangerous challenge to the country’s theocratic rulers in four decades. Those conflicting emotions could become even more complicated Tuesday when Iran meets the U.S. in a game that will determine which team…

Carlos Queiroz once spent a year trying to fix U.S. soccer. On Monday, as coach of the Iranian national team, he’s going to try to beat the Americans.“He took maybe a year to analyze U.S. soccer, analyze youth development in U.S. Soccer,” current American coach Gregg Berhalter. “I remember when I was with the national team in ’98, he was around observing.”At the end of that year, Queiroz turned in a 113-page report that was supposed to be a blueprint on how to get the U.S. to a World Cup final by 2010. A dozen years later, Berhalter is simply…