Buenos Aires: Thousands of people took to the streets of Buenos Aires, the country’s capital, to celebrate Argentina’s first World Cup win in 36 years and catch a glimpse of their favourite players, causing traffic jams and forcing the players’ parade to be stopped midway.

People were carrying flags, they were dancing and singing with full enthusiasm, but their number was so high that due to this, the open bus of the players’ parade had to be stopped and they were paraded by helicopter. The Argentine government called it an air parade.

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New Delhi: The match for third place will be played today in the FIFA World Cup 2022. In this, the teams defeated in the semi-finals will be seen clashing. This match will be played between Croatia and Morocco.

In the first semi-final of the World Cup being played in Qatar, Croatia had to lose the match 0-3 to Argentina. At the same time, Morocco was defeated by France 2-0.

Croatia, who was the runner-up of the World Cup 2022, looks strong in this match. The team has many star players like Luka Modric, Perisic, Kremirich and Lavran. This will also be the last match of the World Cup for legendary player Luka Modric. In such a situation, Croatia would like to bid farewell to this star player in the World Cup with a win.

On the other hand, the Moroccan team has also not been weak. The team made many reversals and made the way to the semi-finals. Morocco qualified in the knockout stage by topping the group by defeating Belgium and Canada.

Morocco made it to the semi-finals by defeating teams like Spain in the Round of 16 and Portugal in the quarter-finals.

Croatia made it to the round of 16 by drawing with Morocco and Belgium in the group stage and winning the match against Canada. In the knock-out stage, Croatia first beat Japan and later Brazil to win the semi-finals.

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New Delhi: Croatia’s team was in front of Argentina in the first semi-final of the FIFA World Cup 2022, but in this match, Lionel Messi’s team has defeated the runner-up Croatia of the previous World Cup 3-0. Messi scored the first goal of this match in the 34th minute.

Argentina’s star player Lionel Messi scored this goal from a penalty corner. This is Messi’s fifth goal in this FIFA world cup while Messi’s 11th goal in FIFA World Cup history.

At the same time, Julian Alvarez scored the second goal for Argentina. Julian Alvarez scored this goal in the 39th minute. In this way Argentina led the match 2-0. Argentina were leading 2-0 at the end of the first half.

After this, In the second half, Lionel Messi missed his second goal in the match and the third goal for the team in the 58th minute. However, Lionel Messi passed the ball to Julian Alvarez in the 69th minute, after which the young player made no mistake and scored his second goal in this match.

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New Delhi: The FIFA World Cup 2022, which is going on in Qatar, has been in the headlines since day one. Now the death of an American journalist covered by FIFA has created a sensation all over the world. American journalist Grant Wahl has been found dead under mysterious circumstances in Qatar.

Earlier, he was detained by Qatari police for wearing a rainbow T-shirt in support of the LGBTQ community.

Eric, the US journalist’s brother, confirmed the news of his death. Eric has questioned the suspicious death of his brother and put the Qatari government in the dock. Grant Wahl was covering the quarter-final match between Argentina and the Netherlands at the Lussel Iconic Stadium this Friday. During the match, he suddenly fell from his seat.

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New Delhi: The excitement of the FIFA World Cup 2022 is at its peak among the fans. Till the pre-quarterfinals, more than one exciting match has been played in the World Cup.

The golden boot race has also become quite interesting with these matches. The race for the Golden Boot includes names ranging from young French star player Kylian Mbappe to Argentina’s star veteran player Lionel Messi. There are about the five players who are running at the top of this list.

Kylian Mbappe

The magic of France’s star young player Mbappe is visible in the FIFA World Cup 2022. He has scored 5 goals in this World Cup so far. At the same time, he has done 9 goals in World Cup history. In this case, Argentina’s star player lionel Messi is equal to him.

Lionel Messi

Argentina’s star player Lionel Messi’s experience is benefiting his team a lot in this World Cup. Messi has scored three goals in the World Cup 2022 so far. However, in the race to score goals, he seems to be slightly behind France’s star player Mbappe.

Bukayo Saka

England team’s star player Bukayo Saka is in fray of the Golden Boot race. He has scored three goals in the World Cup so far. Saka scored two goals against Iran and one against Senegal.

Richarlison

Fifa World Cup 2022 has also been very good for Brazilian player Richarlison. He has scored three goals in this World Cup so far. He also scored a wonderful goal against South Korea in the pre-quarterfinals.

Álvaro Morata

Spain’s Álvaro Morata has scored three goals for his team and himself so far. However, his team has lost to Morocco in the pre-quarterfinals. In such a situation, Morata is now out of this race.

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Lucell (Qatar): Portugal beat Switzerland 6-1 in the pre-quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup on Tuesday with the help of a hat-trick from substitute Gonzalo Ramos, who replaced Cristiano Ronaldo.

The 21-year-old Ramos, who made his debut for Portugal last month, played for his country’s team for the first time in a game for which Ronaldo is famous.

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Ryan: Morocco made a major change in the quarter-finals of the Football World Cup, defeating 2010 champions Spain 3-0 in a penalty shootout to secure a place in the last eight here on Tuesday.

This is Morocco’s best performance in the history of the World Cup. The team had earlier reached the pre-quarterfinals in 1986.

Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou made the best saves in the penalty shootout after both teams failed to score a goal in the match in regular and post-extra time. In the shootout, Abdelhamid Sabiri, Hakim Ziyech and Achraf Hakimi scored for Morocco while Badar Benoun missed.

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Al Wakrah: Croatia defeated Japan 3-1 in a penalty shootout to reach the quarter-finals here today. Earlier, Dazen Maida scored from a short corner just before the first half to give Japan the lead. Shortly after, Ivan Perisic scored a goal to level the score. After the allotted 90 minutes, both the teams could not score a goal even in extra time twice. After this, the match was decided through penalty shootout.

Earlier, Japan finished first in Group E with a total of six points with a loss and two wins, while Croatia reached the pre-quarterfinals with five points in Group ‘F’. In the quarter-finals, Croatia will face the winner of the match between Brazil and South Korea.

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Doha: Defending champions France advanced to the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup with a 3-1 win over Poland here today. For France, the team’s star player Kylian Mbappe scored two goals while Olivier Giroud scored one goal. For Poland, Lewandowski opened the team’s account in the extra time (90+9) of the second half.

For France, Olivier Giroud scored in the 44th minute and Kylian Mbappe in the 74th minute and extra time (90+1) of the second half. During the match, France occupied 55 percent of football, while Poland had 45 percent possession. In the quarter-finals, France will now face the winner of the match between England and Senegal.

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Brussels: Riots broke out in several cities in Belgium and the Netherlands after Morocco’s 2-0 victory over Belgium in the Football World Cup on Sunday. In Brussels, police fired water cannons and tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.

Police detained about a dozen people in Brussels and eight in the northern city of Antwerp.

Police detained about a dozen people in Brussels and eight in the northern city of Antwerp. Several rioters set fire to cars, e-scooters and pelted stones at vehicles.

The police swung into action after one person was injured in the incident. Police in neighbouring Netherlands said violence also broke out in Rotterdam and anti-riot officials tried to stop a pro-football group of about 500 people who pelted stones at police and set fire to them and also vandalised them.

Two police officers were injured in the incident. According to media reports, there is also an atmosphere of unrest in the country’s capital Amsterdam and the Hague.

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