Football stories the mainstream media ignores.
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Smaller than Coventry. Disbanded in 2010. Playing Germany at their first World Cup in 2026. Curaçao are football's most unlikely story.
Gangs took their stadium. The coach never visited. The only home-born player waited for a visa. Haiti just qualified for their first World Cup in 52 years.
Only Lippi and Del Bosque won the Champions League and World Cup. The door's been shut 16 years. Now Ancelotti and Tuchel are both standing in front of it.
8 wins. 37 goals. 28 years. Haaland's first World Cup at 25. Norway are football's most dangerous dark horse — and nobody is talking about them.