Author: Rank&Roll
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Football wins, and it is not close. Football is also only about one-sixth of the top ten — and the interactive table below lets you prove that yourself. You have seen the list. Football 3.5 billion fans, cricket 2.5 billion, field hockey 2 billion, tennis 1 billion. It appears on hundreds of sites, it gets…
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62.8 million viewers for one match. 6.8 million fans through the turnstiles. And one number that quietly suggests the job is not finished. For thirty years the same sentence has been written about soccer in the United States: it is about to break through. On 19 July 2026 it finally did, and the margin was…
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Ten regions. €3.8 trillion. Four German entries, one Irish number that isn’t quite what it looks like — and a leader that laps the whole field. Europe’s economy is almost always told country by country. Drop down one level, to the NUTS2 regions that Eurostat actually measures, and the map stops looking like a map…
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The Brazilian rock scene is perhaps the least known — and most surprising — chapter in the whole history of Latin American rock. It was born in a country with a musical tradition so rich and layered that it seems almost impermeable to the electric guitar: samba, bossa nova, MPB, baião. And yet rock in…
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2024 was a good year for quality of life in Spain: the official INE index rose to 101.47 points and 72.6% of Spaniards report high or very high satisfaction with their lives. But which are really the best cities to live in Spain? And above all, who is rising and who is falling? In this…
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Solo 6 italiani su 10 in età lavorativa hanno un impiego, le donne quasi 18 punti sotto gli uomini, gli over 50 a trainare la crescita. Quando si parla di mercato del lavoro in Italia, la prima reazione è guardare il tasso di disoccupazione e tirare un sospiro di sollievo: 5,3% è un dato storicamente…
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In no other country in Latin America has Argentine rock carried the cultural weight it has carried in Argentina. It is no exaggeration to say that, from the 1960s onwards, rock nacional has been one of the most powerful forces in the country’s cultural and social history. It accompanied the resistance to the dictatorship, it…
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Dall’assurda polemica delle conferenze stampa alla classifica delle lingue delle 48 nazionali: un’analisi del Mondiale 2026 tra calcio, lingue e geopolitica. La polemica: lo spagnolo vietato (quasi) in un Mondiale messicano? 13 giugno 2026. Brasile e Marocco hanno appena terminato di giocare al New York New Jersey Stadium. Achraf Hakimi, marocchino cresciuto calcisticamente in Spagna,…
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Olanda-Giappone ai Mondiali 2026 finisce 2-2, e per il Giappone è un punto che pesa come una piccola impresa. Al Dallas Stadium di Arlington i Samurai Blue vanno sotto due volte contro la settima squadra del ranking FIFA e due volte riacciuffano la partita, firmando il pareggio all’ultimo respiro con l’ex laziale Daichi Kamada. Una…
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June 8, 2026 282 million monthly players in Asia, +410% growth in Malaysia, registered players doubled in Italy in 12 months, leader in the USA, Canada and Australia. Numbers, markets and key players of the sport that is changing the world of sport and of racket games. Pickleball is officially the fastest-growing sport in the…