With its crenelated walls and towers, San Marino perches on a mountaintop in northern Italy like some displaced relic of the Middle Ages. The world’s oldest and smallest (23 square miles) republic, it ...

The microstate has lost all seven World Cup qualification games to date — and must lose the eighth if it hopes to qualify ...

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains how San Marino can still qualify for the 2026 World Cup after finishing bottom of their qualification group ...

EMMANUEL Goût has a long record of involvement with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The 65-year-old Frenchman has acted for some of Russia’s leading energy groups and helped set up the French-language ...