The 48-team World Cup made the group of death harder to define
In the 32-team World Cup, half the field went home before the knockouts. In 2026, that number drops to a…
How to follow Argentina at World Cup 2026 with a two-hub plan
Argentina’s 2026 group stage is unusually easy to plan around because it’s structured like a mini-tour. One match in Kansas…
The 2026 Draw: Death, Life, and a lot of gray
The balls had barely stopped rolling at the Kennedy Center before the same two questions flooded timelines around the world….
Lionel Messi keeps hope alive for 2026 World Cup. What role would he really play?
Will he or won’t he play at the 2026 World Cup? The question hangs over Argentina’s title defense as heavily…
The five most decorated players in footballโand why you’ve probably never heard of two of them
Every few months, another graphic pops up on Twitter claiming to settle who’s won the most trophies in football. They…
Adidas World Cup 2026 shirts landed, here are the 10 that win the moment
Twenty-two shirts dropped at once. We sorted through the chaos and picked the ten that actually work. Adidas just dumped…
Dua Lipa drops in on La Bombonera as Boca win the Superclรกsico
The pop star, fresh off two Monumental shows, watched from a VIP box as Boca beat River 2โ0 and tightened…
The only player in Argentina’s squad without a tattoo
Juliรกn รlvarez has always let his feet do the talking. Now, it turns out, his skin says just as much….
The new world order of football leagues, ranked by true power
Football’s global map keeps changing. What used to separate the “big leagues” from the “small ones” no longer holds. Economics…
Argentina ’78: how a dictatorship staged the World Cup
By June 1978, Argentina was two years removed from the March 1976 coup that toppled President Isabel Perรณn. The military…