Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah, Jamal Musiala and Lamine Yamal (Picture: Getty/Metro) The teenager may be carrying an injury into the tournament but, assuming Spain manage to get through a relatively easy ...

England begin their final preparations for this summer’s World Cup on Saturday night when they face New Zealand in Tampa, the first of two warm-up matches in Florida. talkSPORT BET have ...

Mexico has a proud World Cup history. As of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which begins next week, the country will have served as ...

A glance at the team sheets for last week’s Champions League final gave a big clue as to why Ecuador might end up being one of the toughest teams to score against at the World Cup.Centre half Willian ...

The defender scored Panama’s first ever goal at the FIFA World Cup™ in 2018 with a superb consolation strike against the 1966 champions in Russia.

Alongside him in the Tunisia squad is Norwich City midfielder Anis Ben Slimane. Burgess played every single minute of the ...

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Graham Potter talks about his joy and pride in taking Sweden to the World Cup after hurt of Chelsea and West Ham dismissals.

Who will win the FIFA World Cup? Instead of predicting a final winner, we've picked every single result to show *how* our ...

Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app. A thousand matches. Many of them life-changing, several history-changing. All of them part of the story. After 96 ...

The eighth of our extracts from The Soccer 100 looks at the King, the first (and still only) man to win three World Cups as a ...

There might not seem to be many similarities between North Wales and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. After all, they sit 7,000-km apart. Yet the closer you look, the more they have in common.