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Soccer

From Sunday-league sidelines to billion-dollar transfer windows, the world’s most-followed sport told in long-form. Match reports with tactical bite, transfer sagas, federation politics, and the human stories that turn 90 minutes into culture.

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World Cup 2026: Ranking the Players Their Teams Can’t Afford to Lose

A ranking of weight, not talent: the men at the World Cup whose nations cannot survive without them — from Haaland holding Norway upright to a Spain built so no single player is indispensable.

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World Cup 2026, Group B: Switzerland Should Top It — Canada Want to Make Them Earn It

Switzerland are the logical favourites to lead Group B, but co-hosts Canada — with Alphonso Davies returning from…

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World Cup 2026, Group K: Portugal Favoured — Colombia Make the Case

Portugal are the favourites in Group K, built around Ronaldo's sixth World Cup and a Nations League-winning squad.…

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World Cup 2026, Group A: Mexico the Favorite to Top the Group — Son’s South Korea the Case for Second

Mexico opens the entire 2026 FIFA World Cup at the Estadio Azteca — but Group A is not…

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World Cup 2026, Group I: France the Favourites to Top It — Haaland and Mané Battle for Second

France arrive in North America as Group I's settled answer. Behind them, Norway — back at a World…

Soccer 2 weeks ago

Messi and Ronaldo reach a sixth World Cup — and won’t take the exit

Twenty years after they walked on as kids in Germany, Messi and Ronaldo are the last of their…

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Croatia don’t win in ninety minutes — they outlast you, and at 40 Modrić still sets the clock

A final and a semifinal built on the same refusal: to be rushed. Now the man who slows…

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Uruguay won a century by refusing to lose — Bielsa wants them to stop waiting and start hunting

The smallest nation ever to win a World Cup built its identity on enduring the siege. Marcelo Bielsa…

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America has spent a decade calling this its best soccer team ever — a home World Cup is where the promise comes due

The United States arrives at its own World Cup with the most gifted squad it has ever assembled…

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Mexico has lost the same World Cup match seven times — at home, Aguirre has run out of excuses

For seven straight tournaments Mexico has reached the round of 16 and gone no further. This summer they…

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The Netherlands keep losing World Cups beautifully — this one is built around a defender instead

The home of attacking idealism has finally stopped trying to be beautiful. Ronald Koeman built the Oranje from…

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Germany used to win by being certain — Nagelsmann is betting on the opposite

The most efficient team football ever built has become its most gifted and least settled. Nagelsmann recalled a…

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Portugal go to the World Cup carrying a farewell — and they think it will steady them

A young side that finally learned to win the close ones arrives with the two heaviest things in…