Football

On the evening of 18 November 2025, in Kingston, Jamaica, eleven players from an island of 156,000 people held on for a 0-0 draw and made history. No one from the coaching staff lifted them over the line in the final minutes. No tactical…

Two of international football's most exciting nations meet at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in one of the standout fixtures of the FIFA World Cup 2026 opening weekend. The five-time world champions arrive in North…

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…

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…

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is finally here. Mexico City's Estadio Azteca, football's most storied amphitheatre, opened the tournament's first match on home soil in forty years with a ceremony that mixed spectacle with symbolism — and a match…

Tilsa, a friend of mine who is a PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad, often comes to mind when thinking about football, not just as a random player or for the exceptional playing abilities they hold, but as one of the few who watch…

The intersection of geopolitics and sport has long been a battleground of double standards, but the 2026 FIFA World Cup—co-hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada—has pushed this hypocrisy into plain view. As the tournament kicks…

In November 2022, the captains of seven European nations planned to wear a rainbow-coloured armband at the World Cup in Qatar. It bore a small multicoloured heart and the words “OneLove.” It symbolised, its organisers said, inclusion and…

Iran fans World Cup- Iran's football federation says its fan ticket allocation for the World Cup group stage has been revoked just days before kick-off. According to the FFIRI, it can no longer provide a single ticket to supporters, some of…

There is a moment in the 2006 World Cup quarter-final against Germany, in the 71st minute at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, that tells you everything about Juan Román Riquelme and nothing about football's wisdom. Argentina lead 1-0. The…