On a Crete beach over the next 10 days 40 international teams will battle it out for the trophy with England hoping to go better than the quarter-finals Transport Paul Pogba’s body double, along with Mark Clattenburg, Ron Atkinson and a Euro 2004 winner to a pop-up stadium on a Greek island and then add 40 international football teams to this already eclectic mix. It sounds like a fantasy recipe straight from the pages of a comic-book adventure but the Socca World six-a-side Cup in Rethymno, Crete, is real and the, albeit temporary, ground staging the tournament has risen from the Mediterranean shoreline inside 10 days. The organisers claim the virtually-on-the-beach location to be “the most picturesque setting ever for a sporting event”. Continue reading...
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