Latest features articles covering football.
Dec 18, 2022
Schumacher, Goycochea, Subasic and Livakovic share the World Cup record of four shootout saves; Morocco’s Bounou reached three at the 2026 World Cup.
Dec 18, 2022
Kylian Mbappe is the leading scorer in World Cup finals with four goals, and one of only two men to score a hat-trick in one.
Dec 18, 2022
Lionel Messi has scored 21 goals in 34 FIFA World Cup matches across six tournaments, eight of them in 2026. Here is every one of them, and the all-ti...
Dec 16, 2022
Rodri, Ousmane Dembele, Kylian Mbappe and Lamine Yamal all have a case, and none of them holds the title outright. The case for each, what every award...
Dec 14, 2022
Maradona is the God of football, and there is a church in Rosario that means it literally. Where the nickname came from, and where Pele and Messi actu...
Dec 14, 2022
Argentina have won the World Cup three times, in 1978, 1986 and 2022, and have reached seven finals.
Dec 14, 2022
Lionel Messi, formerly a Golden Ball winner at the World Cup, has two assists in Qatar 2022.
Dec 14, 2022
Lionel Messi broke the World Cup all-time assist record in 2026 and finished on 12. The full list, and why the published rankings disagree below the t...
Dec 10, 2022
India’s Gurpreet Singh Sandhu is the only goalkeeper to win the ISL Golden Glove award twice.
Dec 9, 2022
Neymar finished on 80 goals to become Brazil’s all-time leading scorer, ahead of Pele’s 77. The full top 11, the goals-per-game story, and why the CBF...
Dec 9, 2022
Neymar’s net worth is estimated at around USD 450 million. What he actually earns at Santos, what he made at each club, and why the headline figure is...
Dec 8, 2022
Hazard is the second-highest goal-scorer in Belgian football history.
Dec 2, 2022
Ten or more goals have been scored in a World Cup match six times, most recently in England’s 6-4 win over France in the 2026 third-place match.
Nov 30, 2022
Gavi’s stunning volley against Costa Rica at Qatar 2022 made him the youngest Spanish player to score in the World Cup.
Nov 28, 2022
Germany have failed to win at least one of the first two group matches for the first time in the FIFA World Cup history.
Nov 27, 2022
A win for Argentina vs Poland will ensure their qualification for the Round of 16.
Nov 27, 2022
In its 92-year history, a total of five goals have been scored in under 30 seconds in the FIFA World Cup.
Nov 26, 2022
Guillermo Ochoa retired in July 2026 after a record-equalling sixth World Cup squad and 153 caps for Mexico. His career, his great World Cup nights an...
Nov 24, 2022
Cristiano Ronaldo has netted eight goals in the FIFA World Cup, two less than Eusebio, who holds the Portuguese record.
Nov 24, 2022
Hungary’s 10–1 against El Salvador in 1982 is still the biggest World Cup win. Every win by seven goals or more, the six-goal wins including Germany’s...
Nov 19, 2022
James Rodriguez’s stunning volley against Uruguay in the 2014 World Cup won him the Puskas award.
Nov 5, 2022
Kylian Mbappe is the only two-time FIFA World Cup Golden Boot winner – eight goals in 2022, 10 in 2026. Every Golden Boot winner from 1930 to 2026.
Nov 4, 2022
Kylian Mbappe passed Miroslav Klose at the 2026 World Cup and finished on 22 goals in 22 matches. Lionel Messi is second on 21.
Oct 30, 2022
North Korea hold the record with four FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup titles, after winning in 2024 and 2025.
