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Years before a World Cup tournament, nations bid, grapple, and sometimes even pay bribes in order to secure the rights to host. Why do they do that? Is it just because they like football so much? Or because they enjoy opening up their borders to visitors? Of course not.  

There are a bunch of stuff countries expect to get from hosting the World Cup, and that’s why they want that opportunity so bad. But the thing is, the positives usually come with a lot of negatives, so when we ask what the host countries of World Cup tournaments get, we’re looking at the entire package. Come along with us!

Footballers may act like they never care about what goes on in the outside world but that couldn't be further from the truth. They actually tend to always be on their phones and on social media and one thing they care deeply about is the popular video game FIFA. Every year, there are multiple videos of players learning their ratings and being upset about them while others are even addicted to the game such as Alphonso Davies and Diogo Jota. It is a matter of pride to them to have a good rating in the game and it means alot. Some players though do not have the luxury of this anymore as they have had to be removed from the game. EA Sports sometimes has its reasons for doing this and they always make sure to tell the whole gaming community exactly why. These are 7 such players who have been removed from the game for very controversial reasons.

Benjamin Mendy 

Mason Greenwood 

Diego Maradona 

Luis Suarez 

Marc Overmars 

Marco Van Basten

5 Footballers Who Got Red Carded In The Last Game Of Their Career  

On the very last game of your professional footballing career, there are a few things you dream of doing: scoring, making a game-saving goal-line clearance, keeping a clean sheet, saving a penalty, winning a trophy, all sorts of things. But surely, getting sent off is not one of those things.  But that has happened to quite a number of players. And in this video, we want to check out 5 footballers who got red-carded in the last game of their careers.

Gerard Pique 

Mark van Bommel 

Edgar Davids 

Jurgen Kohler 

Zinedine Zidane

Fenway Sports Group, more commonly known as FSG, the current owners of Liverpool, have announced that they are ready to sell the Merseyside club.

The American sports conglomerate purchased the Premier League giants back in 2010, and you have to say it has been a pretty successful period for them. Under their ownership, Liverpool won the Premier League for the first time, got to 3 Champions League finals, winning one, and won a couple domestic trophies.

But in spite of what you might term a successful period, the majority of the Liverpool faithful were always calling for FSG to leave the club because they were considered to be a little too close-fisted for the modern game. And their support of the European Super League didn’t do much to endear them to the fans.

Anyway, following the recent announcement from FSG, it seems like those fans are finally going to get their wish.

But considering that they didn’t really like the owners before them, Liverpool fans will be really praying they get lucky with their next club owner. Well, let’s quickly take a look at the potential candidates who could take over from FSG in the near future.

Here are the top 5 billionaires who could buy Liverpool:

1. Sir Jim Ratcliffe

2. Sir Martin Broughton

3. Lebron James

4. RedBird Capital Partners

5. Middle Eastern suitors

Since English fans first started singing “it’s coming home”, it has never come home. In fact, football has only “come home” once ever, and that was way back in 1966. Since then, it has been poor officiating like in 1986 at the World Cup, hard luck like in 1998 and 2010 at the World Cup, and near misses like in 2018 at the World Cup and 2021 at the Euros.

We could give all sorts of excuses for the lack of success at international competitions for more than half a century now, but they would hardly hold water because the simple fact is that the 3 Lions should actually be doing much better than they have been doing.

And so many things could be blamed for these underwhelming outings; the FA, bad officiating, poor coaching, lack of zeal from the players, poor decision making on and off the pitch, lots of things. But what if the problem is actually with the country’s local league – the Premier League?

How could the Premier League be ruining the England national team, you ask? Well, come along with us.

.The 2022 World Cup is going to be a very huge tournament for a lot of players. For some, it’ll be their first-ever appearance at the World Cup, for some others, it’ll be their last ever. We have already looked at some players who will be playing in the World Cup for the first time this year. So, this time around, we want to look at some players for whom Qatar would be their last outing.  Here are 10 football legends who will be playing their last World Cup in 2022.

The 2022 World Cup is drawing ever so closer; yet again, we get to see the biggest players on the planet fight for the biggest football trophy on the globe. Since it began in 1930, 8 different national teams have won the World Cup, but 2022 might just be giving us a 9th.  

Here are 8 countries most likely to win their first World Cup in Qatar this year.

Everybody says the 2010 World Cup is the best of the modern era, and come on, isn’t it? Apart from the captivating matches themselves, there was a lot of excitement, culture, great music, the Jabulani, and of course, the vuvuzelas, among other things.

Hate it or love it, those vuvuzelas gave that tournament a lot of character and individuality. If a match is put on the screen right now and you hear that deafening sound drowning the stadium, you just know it’s a game from the 2010 World Cup.

But that musical instrument, if we’re allowed to call it that, was not able to cross over from that World Cup tournament in South Africa to mainstream football all around the world. Why? Because it was banned.

Napoli are in blazing form this season. They’re top of the Serie A table and still unbeaten in the league. They topped their Champions League group, embarrassing European giants like Liverpool and Ajax – 4-1 and 6-1 respectively – on the way.  

They really look like an amazing side this season, and much of that is thanks to their new boy. A certain 21-year-old with a tongue-twister for a name – Khvicha Kvaratskheila. Try saying that name out loud 5 times and tell us how you do.  

Anyway, this lad from Georgia burst onto the scene this season after making a move from Georgia to Naples in the summer. Now, we want to get to really know him. Here are 8 things you probably didn’t know about 8 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

Who else is excited about the 2022 World Cup coming up in a matter of days? We at Goal 90 definitely are. There’s just something about this year’s tournament that feels like it’ll be one for the books. So, yes, we are really excited. And it is with that excitement that we bring you our predictions for the 2022 World Cup.

Make sure to watch till the end because the semi-final picks are pretty spicy and you might be shocked by our group D predictions, too. Anyway, enough talk. Let’s get right to it.