Moroccan dominance, the pain of English penalties, Ronaldo’s undoing and French flair all stood out in the final quarterfinals of a 2022 World Cup that continues to deliver gigantic games.
Here’s a look at how domestic and foreign newspapers reacted to the action.
The English Exit
First, we remember the strange cover of The Sun before the game. It doesn’t even look like “egg bread”, as the breakfast delight is also known there:
We then entered the cover of another England outing sparked, in part, by a penalty kick.
France’s sports daily, L’Equipe (a concept that failed in the United States even as Americans read the newspapers) offers the perfect summary of what was a tense and tense affair:
La Dépêche gets a bit more highbrow for its headline, while the provocative top is a reminder that rugby also has the right to be France’s most beloved sport:
L’Yonne Républicaine believes that this match had a “smell of the end” and had that decisive feeling:
Sud Ouest expressed similar sentiments in calling it a “massive” quarter-final:
pain in portuguese
A Bola best sums up the national mood with “Cry, Portugal”:
O Jogo says that Portugal was “thrown on the carpet”:
“Sad End” sounds a bit more poetic than “Triste Fim” in Portuguese:
Moroccan coverage
Hespress presents scenes of jubilation from around the Arab world:
Al Alam offers a powerful headline: “Morocco writes a historical epic that paralyzed the world’s languages”
Morocco’s French-language newspaper, Le Matin, offers the words of Morocco’s magnificent coach, Walid Regragui: “our qualification is not a miracle, it is the result of teamwork”.
Coverage from the Rest of the World
Canada’s leading French-language daily, Le Journal de Montréal, says that “the Moroccan fairy tale continues”:
Italy’s Corriere dello Sport headlines with “The first time” and then says that Morocco is done with the Ronaldo era:
Marca de España says that Morocco is the “Star of the World Cup”:
Morocco’s victory even made some front pages in the United States, as we see with La Opinión de Los Angeles, the New York Times and the Washington Post:
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