Football Features

13 articles tagged with "Football Features"

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 5, 2026

Mbappe and Messi are level at the top of the World Cup Golden Boot race

Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi are locked together on seven goals at the top of the World Cup Golden Boot race, with Harry Kane and Erling Haaland lur...

Jun 24, 2026

The round of 32 is the 48-team World Cup’s great unknown

The 2026 World Cup is about to enter a round of 32, a knockout phase no men’s tournament has staged before. Here is how the new format works and what...

Jun 19, 2026

The World Cup’s new third-place safety net is already catching the big names

Mexico are already through, but this World Cup’s new eight-team third-place route is quietly reshaping how the big sides think about qualifying.

Jun 8, 2026

Five goals from history: Mbappe and the World Cup record within his reach

Kylian Mbappe goes to North America 12 World Cup goals into his career and five short of Miroslav Klose’s all-time record. At 27, the maths is suddenl...

Jun 8, 2026

Mexico and the Azteca open the World Cup for a historic third time

The Estadio Azteca becomes the first ground to host three World Cup opening matches when Mexico face South Africa on June 11, four decades after Marad...

Jun 4, 2026

Mbappe, Haaland and the closest thing this World Cup has to a group of death

France, Senegal, Norway and Iraq landed in the same pool, and an expanded World Cup built to avoid carnage handed Group I the heaviest draw of the lot...

May 27, 2026

Bruno Fernandes broke the assist record at the Amex and walked off with a major award

Bruno Fernandes finished 2025-26 with 21 Premier League assists, the EA Sports Player of the Season vote, and a Champions League spot for Manchester U...

May 26, 2026

Hale End to Budapest: Bukayo Saka’s road to Arsenal’s Champions League final

An academy schoolboy who came off the bench against Vorskla Poltava in 2018 is on Mikel Arteta’s team sheet for Saturday’s Champions League final agai...

May 6, 2026

Sixteen months in Paris: Kvaratskhelia’s PSG-record Champions League campaign goes to Munich

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has 10 goals and 5 assists in this season’s Champions League, a PSG single-season record beating Ousmane Dembélé’s mark, and ano...

Apr 18, 2026

Life after Salah: the scale of the summer job facing Arne Slot and Liverpool

With Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson both leaving at the end of the season, Liverpool are staring at the biggest rebuild of the Slot era, and the clo...

Apr 17, 2026

Six points, one trip to the Etihad and a title race that Arsenal can still blow

Arsenal lead Manchester City by six points with Sunday’s trip to the Etihad looming, and everything about the next 90 minutes screams that Mikel Artet...

Apr 8, 2026

Liverpool head to Paris in poor shape for a PSG tie that could define their season

PSG host Liverpool at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday night in a Champions League quarter-final first leg that pits a runaway Ligue 1 leader against...