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Will the planets align for the Socceroos in their fourth consecutive World Cup? Sport writer Patrick Mangan looks back at the team’s storied history, including shoplifting, John Safran and “Iran 97”.
Anastasia Safioleas hits the pitch with Street Soccer players in inner-city Melbourne and discovers how people are using soccer as a way to make positive changes in their lives.
In Big Picture, a photographer captures the uniting force of football across the African continent.
And as Russia prepares to welcome soccer fans from around the globe, our friends at a street paper in St Petersburg reflect on what the World Cup will mean for the nation’s most vulnerable.