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VIDEO SHOWS: CANADA TEAM HOLDING TRAINING SESSION A DAY AHEAD OF THEIR INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY IN HARRISON, NEW JERSEY RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: WHIPPANY, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 13, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. VARIOUS OF CANADA MEN'S NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM TRAINING AT RED BULLS TRAINING FACILITY 2. SOCCER BALLS 3. BANNER READING (English): "RED BULL" STORY: Canada’s men’s national soccer team trained in New Jersey on Monday (October 13) ahead of their international friendly against Colombia, set for Tuesday (October 14) at Sports Illustrated Stadium. Players practiced at the Red Bulls Training Facility in Whippany, running drills under cloudy skies and working on passing sequences. The match will see FIFA’s 30th-ranked Canada, led by coach Jesse Marsch, take on No. 14-ranked Colombia in their first meeting in over a decade. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET. The two teams have met three times before, most recently in 2014. Colombia has won twice, while Canada claimed victory in the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final – one of the country’s most significant wins in international competition. (Production: Hussein Al Waaile, Kyoko Gasha, Roselle Chen)

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VIDEO SHOWS: CANADA HOLDING TRAINING SESSION A DAY AHEAD OF THEIR INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY IN HARRISON, NEW JERSEY. SHOT LIST AND FULL SCRIPT TO FOLLOW.

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VIDEO SHOWS: CAPE VERDE CELEBRATIONS AFTER QUALIFYING FOR THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: PRAIA, CAPE VERDE (OCTOBER 13, 2025) (FIFA – Editorial use only, no monetisation, no resales) 1. VARIOUS OF CAPE VERDE PLAYERS CELEBRATING IN FRONT OF CROWD AFTER QUALIFYING FOR THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP WITH A 3-0 WIN OVER ESWATINI               2. CAPE VERDE FANS CELEBRATING  3. PLAYERS CELEBRATING ON PITCH  4. VARIOUS OF PLAYERS WITH FLAGS CELEBRATING WITH CROWD WITH BIG SCREEN SHOWING SCORE OF CAPE VERDE’S 3-0 WIN  5. PLAYER HOLDING UP FLAG CELEBRATING IN FRONT OF CROWD AMONGST TEAMMATES  6. ROBERTO LOPES, KNOWN AS PICO, CELEBRATING WITH “TICKET” SHOWING THAT CAPE VERDE HAD QUALIFIED FOR THE WORLD CUP  7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CAPE VERDE DEFENDER, ROBERTO LOPES, KNOWN AS PICO, SAYING: “It means everything to me. Since I was a little boy, and I know it’s the same for the guys in the dressing room, since we were all little kids playing football, we dreamed of playing football at the highest stage, and there’s no bigger stage than the World Cup. So, to do this, to be the first Cape Verdean team here, to lift all the people, the nation, to put them on that stage, there’s no better feeling than that.” 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CAPE VERDE DEFENDER, STEVEN MOREIRA, SAYING: “Honestly, I don’t realise for the moment, that it’s just amazing. Like, I can’t, honestly, I can’t explain (it). It’s just a lot of emotions right now. I still don’t believe for the moment (that) we’re in a World Cup. That’s crazy, yeah.” 9. PLAYER WITH FLAG WITH FANS  10. PLAYER DANCING IN CELEBRATION IN FRONT OF FANS  STORY: Cape Verde qualified for the World Cup on Monday (October 13), beating Eswatini 3-0 in their last group match to top the standings ahead of Cameroon and complete a fairytale campaign. The wind-swept West African archipelago overcame first-half nerves to win in Praia with second-half goals from Dailon Livramento, Willy Semedo and veteran Stopira and book a first-ever appearance at the finals. They started two points ahead of Cameroon, whose eight previous World Cup finals appearances are the most by an African country. Cape Verde finished Group D on 23 points, four ahead of Cameroon, who were held at home to a goalless draw by Angola. Cape Verde rarely played international football some 25 years ago but now head to next year's finals in North America as one of the nine African representatives. They join Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria and Ghana who have qualified already. Livramento took advantage of Eswatini's failure to clear to steer home the ball from close range three minutes into the second half while Semedo also had a tap-in for the second six minutes later. Stopira, 37, had only come on as a late substitute as an acknowledgement of his long service with the team since 2008, and put a cherry on the cake with a stoppage-time goal. The island's 600,000 inhabitants had been given the day off to support their team but there was little to cheer in a tentative first half before Livramento scored. After that, the celebrations could not be contained. Cape Verde are the second smallest country to qualify for the World Cup after Iceland, who competed in Russia in 2018. Cameroon will likely advance to the playoffs for the four best runners-up across the nine African qualifying groups but were jeered off in Yaounde after failure to beat Angola whose 39-year-old goalkeeper Hugo Marques made several telling stops. (Production: Stefan Haskins)

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VIDEO SHOWS: PRESS CONFERENCE COMMENTS FROM SPAIN HEAD COACH LUIS DE LA FUENTE AHEAD OF FIFA WORLD CUP QUALIFIER AT HOME TO BULGARIA RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SHOTLIST *EDITORS NOTE: FOR SPAIN TRAINING SEE EDIT 3136-SOCCER-WORLDCUP-ESP-BGR/PREVIEW* SHOWS: VALLADOLID, SPAIN (OCTOBER 13, 2025) (RFEF – Must not obscure logo. No resales. No monetisation) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SPAIN HEAD COACH, LUIS DE LA FUENTE, ON PLAYERS GETTING INJURED ON INTERNATIONAL DUTY, SAYING: "What is clear is that footballers unfortunately get injured every matchday in the league, and players can get injured playing for the national team too. It’s just another match. But I don’t know why much more fuss gets made when they get injured with the national team. It should be a source of pride for all of us to have them here." 2. WHITE FLASH 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SPAIN HEAD COACH, LUIS DE LA FUENTE, ON WHETHER HIS PLAYERS PRIORITISE BEING FIT FOR THEIR CLUBS, SAYING: "The qualitative leap in their professional careers comes when they get called up to the national team. That’s something nobody should forget about. They can be very good players already but when they start playing with the national team their value multiplies. That’s the authentic reality of football. It’s the situation we live in. The players know the demands here are very high, and those of us who’ve played a sport like football know there are types of injuries that are manageable, that players can recover from, and others that aren’t." 4. WHITE FLASH 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SPAIN HEAD COACH, LUIS DE LA FUENTE, SAYING: "No, we always want to put the most competitive team out there. Wins aren’t gifted out at this level. I have a lot of responsibility to field the most competitive team, what we think will be the best team for every individual match, and not because some players are playing more than others. Everything here is earned. Tomorrow, our responsibility is to keep winning. We want to keep winning. This team is very hungry and tomorrow’s match carries added significance because we can almost clinch qualification (for the World Cup)." STORY: Spain are hoping to continue their dominant start to World Cup qualifying when they host Bulgaria in Valladolid's Jose Zorrilla Stadium on Tuesday (October 14). Luis de la Fuente's side have struggled with injuries of late with Lamine Yamal, Nico Williams and 2024 Ballon d'Or winner Rodri all sidelined.  Barcelona forward Ferran Torres was then forced to pull out of the national team squad due to muscle soreness in his left hamstring after playing the full 90 minutes of Spain's 2-0 win over Georgia on Saturday. Despite the setbacks, Spain are top of Group E with nine points, three ahead of Turkey while Georgia remain third on three. Bulgaria sit rock bottom having suffered three consecutive defeats to start their campaign.  (Production: Conal Quinn)

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VIDEO SHOWS: SOUNDBITES FROM SPAIN COACH LUIS DE LA FUENTE COMPLETE STORY TO FOLLOW SHOWS: VALLADOLID, SPAIN (OCTOBER 13, 2025) (RFEF – Must not obscure logo. No resales. No monetisation) TO FOLLOW STORY: Spain are hoping to continue their dominant start to World Cup qualifying when they host Bulgaria in Valladolid's Jose Zorrilla Stadium on Tuesday (October 14). Luis de la Fuente's side have struggled with injuries of late with Lamine Yamal, Nico Williams and 2024 Ballon d'Or winner Rodri all sidelined.  Barcelona forward Ferran Torres was then forced to pull out of the national team squad due to muscle soreness in his left hamstring after playing the full 90 minutes of Spain's 2-0 win over Georgia on Saturday. Despite the setbacks, Spain are top of Group E with nine points, three ahead of Turkey while Georgia remain third on three. Bulgaria sit rock bottom having suffered three consecutive defeats to start the campaign.  (Production: Conal Quinn)

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VIDEO SHOWS: PRESS CONFERENCE COMMENTS FROM SPAIN HEAD COACH LUIS DE LA FUENTE COMPLETE STORY TO FOLLOW *EDITORS NOTE: FOR SPAIN TRAINING SEE EDIT 3136-SOCCER-WORLDCUP-ESP-BGR/PREVIEW* SHOWS: VALLADOLID, SPAIN (OCTOBER 13, 2025) (RFEF – Must not obscure logo. No resales. No monetisation) TO FOLLOW STORY: Spain are hoping to continue their dominant start to World Cup qualifying when they host Bulgaria in Valladolid's Jose Zorrilla Stadium on Tuesday (October 14). Luis de la Fuente's side have struggled with injuries of late with Lamine Yamal, Nico Williams and 2024 Ballon d'Or winner Rodri all sidelined.  Barcelona forward Ferran Torres was then forced to pull out of the national team squad due to muscle soreness in his left hamstring after playing the full 90 minutes of Spain's 2-0 win over Georgia on Saturday. Despite the setbacks, Spain are top of Group E with nine points, three ahead of Turkey while Georgia remain third on three. Bulgaria sit rock bottom having suffered three consecutive defeats to start the campaign.  (Production: Conal Quinn)

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VIDEO SHOWS: NIGERIA AND BENIN TRAINING AHEAD OF WORLD CUP QUALIFIER / COMMENTS FROM NIGERIA COACH ERIC CHELLE & CAPTAIN WILLIAM TROOST-EKONG / COMMENTS FROM BENIN COACH GERNOT ROHR & CAPTAIN STEVE MOUNIE SHOWS: UYO, NIGERIA (OCTOBER 13, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. NIGERIA TRAINING UNDERWAY  2. PLAYERS DOING KEEPIE UPPIES  3. CAPTAIN WILLIAM TROOST-EKONG DOING KEEPIE UPPIES IN FRONT OF WINGER SAMUEL CHUKWUEZE 4. TROOST-EKONG DOING KEEPIE UPPIES 5. BALLS ON PITCH  6. PLAYERS GOING THROUGH PASSING & JOGGING DRILLS  7. COACH ERIC CHELLE WATCHING ON 8. FORWARD VICTOR OSIMHEN & WINGER ALEX IWOBI GOING THROUGH HEADING & PASSING DRILL  9. CHELLE & TROOST-EKONG SEATED DURING A PRESSER 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NIGERIA COACH, ERIC CHELLE, SAYING: “I am very happy. I am very excited. Sometimes I am a little nervous, but I like this pressure and tomorrow we will see.” 11. JOURNALISTS WITH PHONES 12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NIGERIA CAPTAIN, WILLIAM TROOST-EKONG, SAYING: “All the boys are really focused on putting on the best game possibly tomorrow. Playing against Benin is not easy. There's no guarantee. Course we are playing against a coach that knows this team very well. Worked with (us) for 5 years, so, there’s so many factors and things that if you think you spend so much time thinking about all of that it's going to be distractions of what we have to do. So, we focus on ourselves like the coach said.” 13. BENIN PLAYERS JOGGING DURING TRAINING  14. PLAYERS WARMING UP  15. VARIOUS OF PLAYERS PASSING BALL AMONGST EACH OTHER  16. BENIN COACH GERNOT ROHR & CAPTAIN STEVE MOUNIE SEATED AT PRESS CONFERENCE WITH ROHR RESPONDING TO QUESTION 17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BENIN COACH, GERNOT ROHR, SAYING: “We can do it, and we are the only team from the three (Benin, South Africa and Nigeria) who still can hope to have our destiny in our hands. That's why I think we have a good position even if it would be a surprise to win here.” 18. PHONE ON TRIPOD RECORDING PRESS CONFERENCE 19. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BENIN CAPTAIN, STEVE MOUNIE, SAYING: “We have our chance tomorrow, if we are the only team that beat Nigeria, I think we are the only team that can beat them again. So, hopefully we will take our chance tomorrow and get this qualification.” 20. ROHR WATCHING ON DURING TRAINING STORY: On Monday (October 13), Nigeria's Super Eagles and Benin's national football team intensified preparations ahead of their World Cup qualifier, with coaches and captains expressing cautious optimism during press briefings. Benin, who defeated Nigeria during the first leg of qualifiers, aim to replicate their success, and doing so would book them a ticket to a maiden World Cup. Nigeria coach Eric Chelle said he was eager yet slightly nervous ahead of the match. Even victory may not be enough for the Super Eagles, as South Africa could also qualify with a positive result of their own at home to Rwanda. Benin's coach, Gernot Rohr, and captain Steve Mounie also expressed confidence ahead of the encounter. Benin sit top of Group C on 17 points, two clear of South Africa with Nigeria a further point behind.  South Africa were stripped of three points during qualifying for fielding an ineligible player. FIFA's disciplinary committee had found South Africa guilty of playing midfielder Teboho Mokoena in a 2-0 home win over Lesotho in March when he should have sat out the qualifier after two cautions in previous Group C games. Lesotho were awarded a 3-0 victory. (Production: Seun Sanni, Angela Ukomadu)

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VIDEO SHOWS: SUPER EAGLES AND BENIN TEAMS TRAINING / NEWS CONFERENCES WITH COACHES AND CAPTAINS FROM BOTH TEAMS AHEAD OF MATCH / SOUNDBITES FROM COACHES AND CAPTAINS SHOWS: UYO, NIGERIA (OCTOBER 13, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. VARIOUS OF NIGERIA'S SUPER EAGLES TEAM TRAINING 2. BALLS ON PITCH 3. SUPER EAGLES COACH ERIC CHELLE WATCHING TEAM 4. SUPER EAGLES TEAM TRAINING 5. SUPER EAGLES COACH ERIC CHELLE AND CAPTAIN WILLIAM EKONG SEATED DURING A PRESSER 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SUPER EAGLES COACH, ERIC CHELLE, SAYING:     "I am very happy, I am very excited. Sometimes I am a little nervous but I like this pressure and tomorrow we will see." 7. JOURNALISTS WITH PHONES 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SUPER EAGLES CAPTAIN, WILLIAM TROOST-EKONG, SAYING:     "All the boys are really focused on being on the best game possibly tomorrow, playing against Benin is not easy. There's no guarantee because we are playing against the coach that knows this team very well. We've worked with him for 5 years, so there are so many factors and things that if you think you spend so much time thinking about all of that it's going to be distractions of what we have to do so we focus on ourselves like the coach said." 9. VARIOUS OF BENIN TEAM TRAINING 10.  COACH GERNOT ROHR AND CAPTAIN STEVE MOUNIE SEATED AT PRESS CONFERENCE 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BENIN TEAM COACH, GERNOT ROHR, SAYING:     "We can do it, and we are the only team from the three who still can hope to have our destiny in our hands, that's why I think we have a good position even if it will be a surprise to win here." 12. PHONE ON TRIPOD, RECORDING 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BENIN TEAM CAPTAIN, STEVE MOUNIE, SAYING:     "We have a chance tomorrow, we are the only team who beat Nigeria, I think we are the only team that can beat them again so hopefully we will take our chance tomorrow and get this qualification." 14. COACH GERNOT ROHR WATCHING HIS TEAM TRAIN STORY:      On Monday (October 13), Nigeria's Super Eagles and Benin's national football team intensified preparations ahead of their World Cup qualifier, with coaches and captains expressing cautious optimism during press briefings.      Benin, who defeated Nigeria during the first leg of the World Cup qualifiers, aim to replicate their success.       Super Eagles coach Eric Chelle said he was eager yet slightly nervous ahead of the match, "I am very happy, I am very excited. Sometimes I am a little nervous but I like this pressure and tomorrow we will see, he said." Captain William Troost-Ekong emphasized the team's focus despite facing their former coach, Gernot Rohr, who is now coaching the Benin team. "Playing against Benin is not easy… We've worked with him for five years, so there are so many factors… We focus on ourselves like the coach said," he remarked.      Benin's coach, Gernot Rohr, and captain Steve Mounie also expressed confidence ahead of the encounter. "We can do it, and we are the only team from the three who still can hope to have our destiny in our hands," Rohr stated      Both teams conducted training sessions in Uyo, with the match tomorrow set to determine crucial standings in the World Cup qualification campaign. (Production: Seun Sanni, Angela Ukomadu)

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