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Nobody has won back-to-back World Cups since Brazil lifted the trophy in 1958 and then again in 1962. That is 64 years without a single defending champion retaining the title. Germany tried in 2018 and went out in the group stage. France tried in 2002 and did not score a single goal. Spain tried in
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is set to be the most star-studded tournament in the history of the sport. Two of the greatest players ever to play the game are bowing out on the biggest stage. A teenager is already the most valuable player in world football. A Norwegian goal machine is making his World
Africa has been waiting for this moment for longer than most football fans can remember. The continent has been sending teams to the World Cup since 1934. It has produced some of the greatest individual players in the history of the sport. It has delivered moments of magic, upsets of staggering proportions, and stories that
Every World Cup needs its underdogs. Without them, you would not have Saudi Arabia beating Argentina. You would not have Cameroon dismantling the reigning world champions in 1990. You would not have Morocco becoming the first African team to reach a semi-final. Every one of those giant-killing stories started with a team that most people
The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11 and the question every football fan is asking right now is the same one they ask every four years: who is going to win it? This time around, the answer involves three names that keep appearing at the top of every list, every prediction market,
The 2026 FIFA World Cup features 48 teams from every corner of the planet. Some of them are here to win the whole thing. Some are here to make history just by qualifying. And most sit somewhere in between competitive, motivated, and carrying strengths that could make them dangerous on any given day, alongside weaknesses
Jude Bellingham scored twice in 98 seconds, Harry Kane converted a penalty to move into the top five of all-time World Cup scorers, and England survived over 40 minutes with 10 men to beat Mexico 3-2 in one of the great World Cup matches at the Estadio Azteca. Thomas Tuchel’s side are through to the
Scotland’s hopes of reaching the 2026 FIFA World Cup knockout stage are still alive despite finishing third in Group C. While they missed out on one of the automatic qualification places, they remain in contention as one of the tournament’s best third-placed teams. Scotland’s Group C Campaign Scotland opened their World Cup campaign with a
Iran twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with New Zealand at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Monday, June 15, in a pulsating, end-to-end Group G opener that delivered four well-worked goals and left the entire group deadlocked after the opening round of fixtures. Elijah Just gave New Zealand the lead twice, in the
Amad Diallo climbed off the bench to deliver the latest possible drama, scoring a 90th-minute winner as Ivory Coast began their World Cup campaign with a 1-0 victory over Ecuador at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Sunday, June 14. The Manchester United winger’s calm finish ended Ecuador’s remarkable 19-game unbeaten run and gave Emerse
Saudi Arabia came agonisingly close to another famous World Cup scalp, only to be denied by a late Maximiliano Araujo equaliser as Uruguay escaped Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium with a 1-1 draw on Monday, June 15. Abdulelah Al-Amri, a centre-back, gave the Saudis a surprise lead deep into the first half, capitalising on a rebound
Romelu Lukaku needed just twenty two seconds to change the course of a match he had not even started, rescuing a 1-1 draw for Belgium against Egypt at Seattle Stadium on Monday, June 15. Emam Ashour’s superb 19th-minute strike from distance had given Egypt a first-half lead and a real chance of a maiden World
Cape Verde produced one of the great World Cup shocks in recent memory, holding European champions Spain to a goalless draw at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday, June 15. A nation of just over 500,000 people and making their World Cup debut, the Blue Sharks frustrated Luis de la Fuente’s star-studded squad for the
Sweden made an emphatic statement on their return to the World Cup stage, thrashing Tunisia 5-1 at Monterrey Stadium on Sunday, June 14, in a performance that announced Graham Potter’s side as genuine contenders in Group F. Yasin Ayari scored twice, either side of goals from Alexander Isak, Viktor Gyokeres, and substitute Mattias Svanberg, as
France open their 2026 World Cup campaign at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey against Senegal in one of the standout Group I fixtures and one of the most emotionally loaded matches of the entire tournament. Senegal are the reigning African champions, ranked among the continent’s best teams, and arrive with Sadio Mane, Ismaila Sarr, and
In what was arguably the match of the tournament so far, the Netherlands and Japan played out a breathtaking 2-2 draw at Dallas Stadium on Sunday, June 14, in a Group F opener that had everything. [matchcard id=14] Ronald Koeman’s Oranje twice took the lead and twice were pegged back by a Japan side that
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