Final games are most times a thriller of sorts, especially when the odds by bookmakers and lovers of the game, including armchair critics and analysts, are heavily against one of the finalists. The ...

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Ballon d'Or winner will be crowned in September. Players made their final efforts for the award at the FIFA Club World Cup.

Facing Germany on Saturday night in Basel, Les Bleues hope to reap the benefits of work led over recent months by head coach ...