Japan’s maiden FIFA World Cup was the 1998 tournament in France. The group stage draw put them together with Argentina, Croatia and Jamaica. Despite Masashi Nakayama scoring their first ever World Cup ...

The Udinese keeper is expected to be in goal on Monday when Nigeria face Rwanda after first-choice choice Stanley Nwabali was granted leave. This is indisputably the golden generation of Belgian ...

Former Barcelona centre back Samuel Umtiti, a key figure in France's triumphant 2018 World Cup campaign, has announced his retirement at the age of 31. A product of Olympique Lyonnais' academy, Umtiti ...

Japan and Croatia will fight it out for a place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup on Monday. Japan have never made it beyond the last 16 of the competition but they have impr ...