Kylian Mbappe became the first player to win the fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FIFA World Cup Golden Boot on two occasions after finishing as the leading scorer at the 2026 tournament,…

If football really is decided by the better team, then this World Cup final took its time getting there. For almost 120 minutes at MetLife Stadium, Spain did everything except score. They controlled possession, dictated the…

Argentina Are One Goal and One Win From Immortality. Lionel Messi Is the Reason Both Are Possible. Argentina enter the 2026 World Cup final as the underdogs. They have reached it by being better than the odds, which is a habit this squad…

There is a generation of football supporters — those born somewhere in the corridor between the mid-eighties and the late nineties — for whom the game has been organised, for their entire conscious lives, around a small number of enormous…