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Hossam and Ibrahim Hassan – the no-nonsense twins leading Egypt’s World Cup charge

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By Simon Hughes Verified
| The Athletic Verified
With their black t-shirts, broad shoulders and boulder-shaped heads, the “twins”, as they tend to be called in Egypt as if they are the same being, look like boxing gym trainers as they pace the touchline rather than the ring, waiting to pounce on the incidents that unfold in front of them.
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Ghana are the African superpower inexorably drawn to chaos

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By Simon Hughes Verified
| The Athletic Verified
Chris Hughton shakes his head. “Football is the most popular sport in Ghana by a mile, and expectations are enormous,” he says. “But the country hasn’t won a trophy since my own football career started, which is a very long time ago…” Hughton knows all too well about the maddening mystery of the sport in Ghana, and how one of Africa’s most historically significant and successful footballing nations seems inexorably drawn to chaos.
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Ghana are the African superpower inexorably drawn to chaos

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By Simon Hughes Verified
| Breaking One
Chris Hughton shakes his head. "Football is the most popular sport in Ghana by a mile, and expectations are enormous," he says. "But the country hasn't won a trophy since my own football career started, which is a very long time ago…" Hughton knows all too well about the maddening mystery of the sport in Ghana, and how one of Africa's most historically significant and successful footballing nations seems inexorably drawn to chaos.
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