Some clubs will roll out a handful of debutants - both fresh draftees and players that have toiled away in the reserves for years - when the AFL returns. In 2025 we saw Essendon debut 15 players - 10 ...

Today, Senegal opens its 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, against two-time winners France. It’s a rematch of the 2002 opener in South Korea, the ...

Doha: The 2026 FIFA World Cup has introduced a new way of recognising individual achievements, with selected players sporting special commemorative patches on their jerseys for the first time in the ...

Cape Verde and Curaçao have carried the hopes of two of the smallest nations ever to reach a FIFA World Cup Jordan and Uzbekistan turned years of regional progress into historic maiden World Cup ...

Cricket has always been drawn to the romance of youth breaking through, and few moments capture it more vividly than a teenager walking out to make his international debut. The arrival of a prodigy on ...

World Cup debutants Cape Verde shocked reigning European champions Spain in Atlanta on Monday, as the minnows held one of the favorites to win the 2026 men’s World Cup to a 0-0 draw. Everyone is ...

England gave debuts to three players in the second Test against New Zealand which began on Wednesday, making it 20 to have been given their cap under head coach Brendon McCullum. Can you name all 20?

Germany won their first opening match at a World Cup since lifting the trophy in 2014 as they eased to a 7-1 win against debutants Curacao in their opening Group E match in Houston on Sunday. The ...

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Cape Verde pulled off a World Cup shock by holding Spain to a 0-0 draw in the opening game of Group H in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday, where the European champions and one of the tournament favourites ...

Santa Clara, United States: Austria were given a scare by World Cup debutants Jordan on Tuesday before securing a 3-1 win rounded off by a penalty in added time from veteran forward Marko Arnautovic.