It has been difficult to go anywhere in Mexico City this week without seeing Hugo Sánchez, the great former Real Madrid striker, trying to sell you something. Raúl Jiménez is on a few billboards and T...
06.11.2026 yahoo.com , theguardian.com , aol.co.uk and 7 sites
T his American dream begins in small-town Murphy, Santa Fe. That’s Santa Fe, Argentina, at a little club where the old folk played bochas , a kind of boules, and they had one of the few colour televis...
06.10.2026 Theguardian.com and 1 sites
Bins set alight on the Crumlin Road area of Belfast, as disorder flared during an anti-immigration demonstration. Bins set alight on the Crumlin Road area of Belfast, as disorder flared during an anti...
06.11.2026 yahoo.com , theguardian.com , aol.co.ukBy Ben Church, Patrick Sung Cuadrado, Aleks Klosok, Emile Nuh, CNN (CNN) — With less than a week to go until this year’s World Cup , it’s time to start taking a closer look at those who are set to pla...
06.06.2026 Cnn.com and 8 sites
This article is part of the Guardian's 2026 World Cup Experts' Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian. com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June. The plan Portugal secured their ninth World Cup appearance, and their seventh in a row, with relative ease, even if a home draw against Hungary in October and a defeat in Ireland in November delayed the celebr...
06.09.2026 theguardian.com , aol.co.uk and 1 sites
By Esteban Campanela, CNN (CNN) — Predictions about who will be the next World Cup champion often miss the mark. The pressure at this tournament is as intense as it gets for any player, and the margin...
06.07.2026 cnn.com , yahoo.com and 11 sites
René Meulensteen at home in Cheshire ahead of going to the World Cup this summer as the assistant manager of Iraq. René Meulensteen at home in Cheshire ahead of going to the World Cup this summer as t...
06.09.2026 aol.co.uk , theguardian.com
"Sometimes there is an end for all of us, maybe mine is coming soon, " says Edin Dzeko, though first there is the small matter of captaining Bosnia and Herzegovina at only their second World Cup, less...
06.09.2026 aol.co.uk , theguardian.com
W hat I saw in a town called Al-Shahaniyah on the outskirts of Doha, the capital of Qatar , seven years ago broke every rule and human right in the book. Desperate, hard-working people were on strike ...
06.08.2026 Theguardian.com and 2 sites
We're now less than 48 hours from the start of the World Cup, which kicks off Thursday at 3 p. m ET with Mexico facing South Africa at the vaunted Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, followed by a nightcap between South Korea and Czechia in Guadalajara. C...
06.09.2026 Cbc.ca and 1 sites