World Cup 2026

129 articles tagged with "World Cup 2026"

Aug 14, 2026

Barcelona are selling the World Cup final’s matchwinner, and the accounting explains why

PSG have agreed around €50 million for Ferran Torres and he has agreed a five-year deal. Barcelona offered him a new contract instead. He asked to go,...

Jul 27, 2026

Mexico national football team: full squad and key players

Mexico won all three group games at their home World Cup and ended a 40-year knockout drought before England stopped them. Here is the full 26-man squ...

Jul 20, 2026

Spain look built to last, and that should worry the rest of the world

Spain backed up Euro 2024 with the World Cup, and with Lamine Yamal only nineteen and Rodri collecting the game’s top prize, the dynasty question is a...

Jul 20, 2026

Rodri and Spain dominate the 2026 World Cup awards, Mbappe takes the Golden Boot

Rodri won the Golden Ball, Unai Simon the Golden Glove and Pau Cubarsi the Young Player award as Spain swept the individual honours. Kylian Mbappe was...

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

Germany turn to Klopp to rebuild after their World Cup disaster

After the humiliation of a round-of-32 exit to Paraguay and Nagelsmann’s resignation, Germany are on the brink of handing Jurgen Klopp his first inter...

Jul 16, 2026

Deschamps takes his France farewell against a wounded England in the third-place play-off

France and England, both beaten in the semi-finals, meet in Saturday’s World Cup third-place play-off in Miami, the last match of Didier Deschamps’ Fr...

Jul 16, 2026

A World Cup final of opposites: Spain’s control against Messi’s Argentina

Spain reached the World Cup final with the tournament’s meanest defence; Argentina got there on Lionel Messi and a habit of late drama. Sunday’s showp...

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 15, 2026

England face Messi’s Argentina in Atlanta with a final against Spain up for grabs

The World Cup’s last semifinal pits England against the holders Argentina in Atlanta, with the winner meeting Spain in Sunday’s final.

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

Messi faces England at last as an old World Cup rivalry returns in the semis

Wednesday’s semi-final in Atlanta pits Thomas Tuchel’s England against Lionel Messi’s Argentina, reviving a fixture last played in 2005 and one Messi...

Jul 12, 2026

Bellingham’s extra-time brace sends England past Norway and into the World Cup semi-finals

Jude Bellingham scored twice, including an extra-time winner, as England edged Norway 2-1 in Miami to reach the World Cup semi-finals.

Jul 11, 2026

France and Spain meet early as the World Cup’s top two clash for a final place

The two top-ranked teams left in the tournament meet a round early: unbeaten France take on a battle-hardened Spain in Arlington for a place in the Wo...

Jul 10, 2026

Haaland and Norway chase history against England in the World Cup quarter-finals

Erling Haaland has seven goals and a nation on his shoulders as Norway reach a first World Cup quarter-final. England, unbeaten and favourites, must f...

Jul 9, 2026

France are the team to beat at the World Cup, but the hard part starts now

France have won all five games and look the tournament’s most complete side. Their history says the knockout rounds are where even the best teams come...

Jul 8, 2026

Argentina meet Switzerland’s stubborn defence with a semi-final on the line

The holders survived a scare against Egypt to reach the last eight, where they meet a Switzerland side into the World Cup quarter-finals for the first...

Jul 7, 2026

Argentina score three in 13 minutes to stun Egypt and reach the quarter-finals

Down 2-0 with a quarter of the match to play, the defending champions produced the latest of great escapes in Atlanta to keep their title defence aliv...

Jul 7, 2026

Kobel’s shootout heroics send Switzerland past Colombia and into the quarter-finals

A goalless 120 minutes in Vancouver came down to spot-kicks, and Switzerland’s goalkeeper made the difference to set up a last-eight meeting with Arge...

Jul 7, 2026

Fitness races over Saibari and Reece James as the World Cup quarter-finals near

Ismael Saibari, Aurelien Tchouameni and Reece James are all in a race to be fit as the World Cup 2026 quarter-finals approach, with team news shaping...

Jul 7, 2026

Lamine Yamal’s Spain take on Belgium’s old guard in the World Cup quarter-finals

Spain reached the last eight for the first time since their 2010 triumph, while Belgium ground out a comeback and a rout to get here. They meet in Los...