Jul 20, 2026
Germany national football team: full squad and key players
Germany head into a new era under Jurgen Klopp after a chastening 2026 World Cup. Here is the full squad he inherits, from Manuel Neuer and Joshua Kim...
FIFA World Cup 2026
224 articles tagged with "FIFA World Cup 2026"
Jul 19, 2026
Spain are world champions as Ferran Torres’ extra-time goal downs ten-man Argentina
Ferran Torres’ extra-time strike settled a tense final at MetLife Stadium, denying ten-man Argentina and handing Spain their first World Cup title sin...
Jul 19, 2026
Messi and Yamal: two Barcelona generations meet in the World Cup final
Messi is 39 and probably saying goodbye. Yamal is 19 and just getting started. The World Cup final puts two players from the same club lineage on oppo...
Jul 19, 2026
Spain vs Argentina: what to watch in the World Cup 2026 final
Spain and Argentina meet at MetLife Stadium with the World Cup on the line. Here is how the two unbeaten finalists shape up before the 00:30 IST kicko...
Jul 19, 2026
Saka hat-trick fires England to World Cup bronze in a 6-4 thriller with France
England raced four goals clear, survived a France fightback led by Kylian Mbappe, and won the World Cup third-place play-off 6-4 in Miami. Bukayo Saka...
Jul 18, 2026
England national football team: full squad and key players at the 2026 World Cup
Thomas Tuchel took England to the World Cup semi-finals before Argentina ended the run in Atlanta. Here is the 26-man squad that carried the Three Lio...
Jul 18, 2026
Whatever happens against Spain, this feels like Messi’s long goodbye
At 39, and openly admitting he is exhausted, Lionel Messi has dragged Argentina to a third World Cup final. Sunday against Spain may well be the last...
Jul 18, 2026
England’s 60-year wait goes on after another semi-final collapse
England led their World Cup semi-final and lost it late to a Messi-inspired Argentina, and sixty years on from 1966 the wait drags on. Thomas Tuchel w...
Jul 17, 2026
Spain national football team: full squad and key players at the 2026 World Cup
No Real Madrid players, a Barcelona-heavy spine and a defence that has conceded once all tournament: this is the Spain squad that has reached the 2026...
Jul 17, 2026
Messi edges Mbappe on assists as the World Cup Golden Boot goes to the wire
Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe are locked together on eight goals with one game each left, and the tie-break maths currently leaves the Argentine in f...
Jul 15, 2026
Enzo and Lautaro strike late as Argentina beat England to reach the World Cup final
Two goals in the final five minutes, both made by Lionel Messi, turned a losing semi-final into a place in the final for the holders.
Jul 15, 2026
France’s run of World Cup finals ends as Deschamps bows out a game short
France’s decade of reaching finals ended in Dallas, and with it the Deschamps era. A 2-0 semi-final defeat to Spain leaves the most successful France...
Jul 14, 2026
Oyarzabal and Porro fire Spain past France and into the World Cup final
Goals from Mikel Oyarzabal and Pedro Porro saw Spain shut down France in Dallas and reach only their second World Cup final.
Jul 13, 2026
Brazil national football team: full squad and key players at the 2026 World Cup
Carlo Ancelotti’s Brazil went to the 2026 World Cup with Vinicius Junior, Raphinha and a returning Neymar, then fell in the round of 16. Here is the f...
Jul 13, 2026
Mbappe leads Messi by an assist as the World Cup Golden Boot race reaches the semis
Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi are tied on eight goals, Erling Haaland is stuck on seven and out of the tournament, and Harry Kane is chasing on six....
Jul 12, 2026
Alvarez stunner sends Argentina past Switzerland and into an England semi-final
The holders needed extra time and a Julian Alvarez wonder-strike to see off a stubborn ten-man Switzerland in Kansas City. Argentina’s reward is a las...
Jul 12, 2026
Four teams, two ties, and a France-Spain semi-final that feels like the final
The World Cup is down to four, with France v Spain and England v Argentina to come. Two heavyweight semi-finals, one wide-open trophy race, and a pick...
Jul 11, 2026
Messi’s Argentina meet Switzerland’s underdogs for a World Cup semi-final place
Argentina, the reigning champions, face a Switzerland side in their first World Cup quarter-final since 1954, with a place in the last four on the lin...
Jul 11, 2026
Merino strikes late again as Spain edge Belgium to reach the World Cup semi-finals
A late Mikel Merino goal settled a tense quarter-final at SoFi Stadium and booked Spain a last-four meeting with France.
Jul 11, 2026
Neymar’s Brazil career ends where it began, and without the World Cup that shadowed it
Neymar has walked away from international football as Brazil’s all-time top scorer, bookending his career at the same New Jersey stadium where it star...
Jul 10, 2026
Klopp agrees to become Germany manager after Nagelsmann’s World Cup exit
The Liverpool icon is set to replace Julian Nagelsmann in the German dugout, with a four-year deal agreed and only the formal announcement to come.
Jul 9, 2026
Mbappe and Dembele send France past Morocco and into the World Cup semi-finals
Kylian Mbappe scored and set up Ousmane Dembele as France beat Morocco 2-0 in Foxborough to reach a third straight World Cup semi-final.
Jul 8, 2026
A booking from the semis: the yellow-card tightrope facing the World Cup’s last eight
FIFA wipes every yellow card after the World Cup quarter-finals, leaving a clutch of players a single booking away from missing a semi-final. England,...
Jul 8, 2026
Ronaldo’s World Cup story ends with the one prize he never got
Spain’s late winner in Dallas sent Cristiano Ronaldo out of his sixth and final World Cup, the one prize that eluded him across two decades at the top...