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Zinedine Zidane is officially the manager of France's national team. The Federation Française de Football made it official Tuesday, confirming the fifty-four-year-old legend takes over from Didier Deschamps, whose fourteen-year run ended after the two thousand twenty-six World Cup. Zidane steps into the biggest job in world football, and the expectations are exactly what you'd imagine.
Speaking of the World Cup, soccer's law-making panel has confirmed what many already suspected — Switzerland's Breel Embolo should never have been sent off in the quarterfinal against Argentina. His second yellow card, issued after a video review for simulation in the seventy-second minute, came moments after Switzerland equalized at one-one. Argentina went on to win three-one, and that call changed everything.
And keep an eye on Anna Moesch. The University of Virginia freshman arrived in Charlottesville with four-year goals, but her coach Todd DeSorbo told her from day one he believed she could break the American record in the long course one hundred meter freestyle. That's not a slow build — that's a program putting a target on the wall before she's even settled in.
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