Somewhere in Lagos right now, a television is on, and the World Cup is playing, and nobody in the room is fully watching it. Somewhere in Douala and Yaoundé, the same. The tournament has begun — the biggest in history, 48 teams, nine of…

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…