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By MNTV Staff Writer When the 2026 World Cup began, it did so with the largest contingent of Muslim players and Muslim-majority nations the competition has ever seen. As it ends, the scoreboard tells one story — no Muslim-majority nation past the quarter-finals — and the tournament itself tells another, richer one. These are the […]
By MNTV Staff Writer Football’s sense of symmetry can be exquisite. Six days ago, France ended Morocco’s World Cup and, with it, the last African, Asian and Muslim presence in the tournament. On Tuesday night at AT&T Stadium, France’s own tournament was ended by a teenager whose father was born in Morocco. Spain beat Fran...
By MNTV Staff Writer When Djed Spence came off the bench in Belgrade on 9 September 2025, replacing Reece James in the 69th minute of England’s 5-0 World Cup qualifying win over Serbia, he did something no man had done in the long history of the England men’s team. He became its first Muslim international. […]
By MNTV Staff Writer History, it turns out, does repeat. Four years after France ended Morocco’s fairytale in the semi-finals of Qatar, they did it again at Gillette Stadium on Thursday: same opponent, same margin, same 2-0 scoreline, same crushing silence at the final whistle. The Atlas Lions are out of the 2026 World Cup, […]
By MNTV Staff Writer When France and Morocco walk out at Boston Stadium this afternoon, the scoreboard will say quarter-final. The history will say something far more complicated. This is a rematch of the 2022 semi-final in Qatar, when France won 2-0 to end Morocco’s fairytale — the first ever run by an African or […]
By MNTV Staff Writer Some defeats are simply lost. Others are taken. In the hours since Egypt’s agonising 3-2 loss to Argentina in the World Cup Round of 16, a striking consensus has formed across the football world — from former referees and neutral pundits to some of the game’s biggest names — that Mohamed […]
By MNTV Staff Writer Football can be breathtakingly cruel, and rarely has it been crueller than it was to Egypt on Tuesday night. The Pharaohs, playing in a World Cup Round of 16 for the first time in their history, came within touching distance of one of the most famous results the competition has ever […]
By MNTV Staff Writer Football staged one of its great generational handovers on Monday night at AT&T Stadium. On one side, Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, playing the last World Cup match of a monumental career. On the other, Lamine Yamal, 18, the boy wonder carrying Spain’s — and the game’s — future on his shoulders. When […]...
By MNTV Staff Writer Some players announce themselves at a World Cup with goals. Brahim Díaz has done it with the final pass. With four assists in five matches, the Real Madrid playmaker sits atop the assist charts of the 2026 tournament — and has, in the process, become the most prolific African provider in […]
By MNTV Staff Writer Morocco’s World Cup story remains one of faith as much as football — and on Saturday night in Houston, both were on full display. The Atlas Lions eased past co-hosts Canada 3-0 in the Round of 16 to reach the quarter-finals for the second World Cup running, a clinical second-half performance […]
