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The World Cup final is set, and Lionel Messi stands on the edge of history. Sunday's match will be his thirty-second World Cup appearance, and the question hanging over every football fan on the planet is whether it's his last. At thirty-seven, Messi has carried Argentina to the brink of back-to-back titles, and the world is watching every touch like it might be the final one.
Meanwhile, England wrapped up their two thousand twenty-six World Cup campaign in the most dramatic fashion possible, beating France six goals to four in a ten-goal third-place thriller. Bukayo Saka was absolutely electric, bagging a hat-trick and silencing every critic who questioned Thomas Tuchel's decision to drop him for the semi-final. Declan Rice added a goal and an assist in a captain's performance that underlined just how far this England side has come.
And in the octagon, Dricus Du Plessis made a powerful statement in Oklahoma City, dismantling former welterweight king Kamaru Usman across five rounds at middleweight. The judges scored it fifty-forty-five, forty-nine-forty-six, forty-nine-forty-six, a dominant unanimous decision that signals Du Plessis is very much back and hungry for another run at championship gold.
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