French soccer star Kylian Mbappé joined Pelé as the second teenager to score a goal in a World Cup Final with a strike against Croatia in a 4–2 win for France. Mbappé also received the FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award. Photo: Matthias Hangst/Getty Images.
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Saint Petersburg, Russia: A ballerina watches the World Cup quarter-final match between Russia and Croatia in which the hosts were eliminated on penalties. Photo: Anton Vaganov/Reuters.
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Moscow, Russia: Dancers at the Bolshoi Theatre watch the World Cup match between Russia and Spain. Photo: Bruna Gaglianone.
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Shop assistants pose from the window of a shop in Kaliningrad, Russia during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Photo: AFP/Ozan Köse.
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An elderly woman sells lacy collars in the streets of Yekaterinburg, Russia hours before the 2018 FIFA World Cup Group C soccer match between France and Peru. Photo: AFP/Franck Fife.
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Many Iranian women not only took off their veils but also merrily joined their male countrymen in the stadium celebrations at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Women in Iran have been banned from entering stadiums since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, but Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and his ministry of sports – as well as the majority of Iranians – do not agree with the stadium ban, so, who knows, something might even happen quite soon. Photos: la Repubblica.
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Senegal got Africa’s first win of the 2018 FIFA World Cup with a 2–1 victory over Poland in Moscow, Russia on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Pictured above is M’Baye Hamady Niang (right) and his teammates celebrating their second goal. Photo: Eduardo Verdugo/AP.
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Achilles, the deaf Russian cat reputed to have psychic powers, poses during a ceremony in Saint Petersburg after predicting the result of the opening match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Photo: AFP/Olga Maltseva.
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