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Gary Meenaghan

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Brazil, Scotland, United Arab Emirates
As seen in: BBC, BBC Sport, Al Jazeera English, VICE, The National, Al Bawaba, Playboy, Arab News, The Star (Kenya), Arab News Pakistan
Covers:  football, formula one, tennis, rugby, golf, boxing, world cup, fifa, olympics, travel, sports
Doesn't Cover: cricket
Nomadic journalist. Mostly sports. As published by The Times, BBC, Vice, The National, Bloomberg, Newsweek, Herald, and others. Falo português.

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Gary Meenaghan’s Biography

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Award-winning sports writer. Comfortable talking tyres, tennis, TKOs, goal-line technology, tricky birdie putts and plenty more. Covered three seasons of Formula One, three Fifa World Cups, the 2016 Olympic Games, and myriad international sports events across the globe.

Gary Meenaghan’s Journalist Portfolio

NEWS: On a foreign football field, love blossoms between Arab boy and Israeli girl

NEWS: On a foreign football field, love blossoms between Arab boy and Israeli girl

JOHANNESBURG: Deep in Alexandra Township, amid the dust and dirt that swirls around the ramshackle shanty hom…

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PROFILE: Tim Weah Has the Talent-and the Pedigree-to Save U.S. Soccer

PROFILE: Tim Weah Has the Talent-and the Pedigree-to Save U.S. Soccer

KOLKATA: American soccer fans disillusioned by their country's failure to qualify for next summer's FIFA Worl…

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LONG-READ: The Men Who Could Be King

LONG-READ: The Men Who Could Be King

AMMAN: Prince Ali of Jordan and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain want to be the next president…

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FEATURE: Ramadan at the Fifa World Cup

FEATURE: Ramadan at the Fifa World Cup

MOSCOW: For Muslims around the world, June 15 is expected to be the last day of Ramadan, yet for players of S…

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FEATURE: Making the Medals at Rio 2016

FEATURE: Making the Medals at Rio 2016

RIO DE JANEIRO: When Brazilian judoka Felipe Kitadai won bronze in the 60kg category at the London Olympics, …

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“This is football — no excuses”: Morocco disappointed at falling below expectations

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By Gary Meenaghan Verified
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BOSTON: When Morocco left Qatar in 2022, they did so as heroes, having become the first African and Arab side to reach a World Cup semifinal. Four years later in the US, this time in the quarterfinals, they have lost to France 2-0 once again. Same opponent, same result. Yet it is testament to Morocco’s journey that this felt less like glorious overachievement and more like a painful reminder of how much expectations have risen.
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Patient Morocco beat co-hosts Canada to set up quarterfinal against France

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By Gary Meenaghan Verified
| Arab News Pakistan Verified
HOUSTON: The end result was as expected, but for 45 minutes the performance was not. After a quintessential game of two halves, Morocco became the first African team in history to twice reach the World Cup quarterfinals, yet it was not the easy game against Canada that many fans anticipated. When the final whistle went, two-goal hero Azzedine Ounahi said he “felt like crying” after helping to give his country the celebrations its people were expecting.
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Salah and Egypt seize their chance Original

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By Gary Meenaghan Verified
| Arab News Verified
DALLAS: After a week in which Egypt’s coach Hossam Hassan fielded repeated questions about Australia’s physical advantages and Mohamed Salah’s fitness, it felt fitting that the Pharaohs’ biggest match on the world stage since 1934 began with the two captains — 175 cm Salah and the Socceroos’ 2-meter tower Harry Souttar — standing together in the center circle. Yet as it turned out, neither storyline mattered quite as much as anticipated.
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Awards

Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) Award

2012 - Beat Writing 30,000 - 75,000

Open to all publications that subscribe and have paid their dues for the Associated Press wire service, the APSE awards is a US-based contest that judges sports writing. In 2013, I placed second overall for my coverage of the 2012 Formula One season.

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