Brooklyn-born to Nigerian parents, raised in London, trained by Arsenal — Folarin Balogun 's path to the 2026 World Cup is unlike any other player's. The Airline That Changed American Football In the summer of 2001, Florence Balogun tried…

Thirty-two years after the USA last hosted a World Cup, America finally had its moment — and the home team delivered everything a partisan crowd of 70,492 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles could have dreamed of. The USMNT recorded their…

What can be the perfect opening match in a World Cup tournament marked by such ponderous build-up and insatiable greed in an era which has become synonymous with maximisation of attention-grabbing tactics to the active detriment of the…

Edin Džeko has written a letter, addressed not to journalists, not to fans, not to the football world, but to the children of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was published yesterday on The Players' Tribune in both English and Bosnian, and it…