Lionel Messi

Spain were crowned world champions for the second time after edging Argentina 1-0 after extra time in New Jersey. Ferran Torres scored the decisive goal in the 106th minute after Nico Williams transformed the contest from the bench, while…

Kylian Mbappe became the first player to win the FIFA World Cup Golden Boot on two occasions after finishing as the leading scorer at the 2026 tournament, while newly crowned champions Spain collected the remaining major individual honours.…

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…

Spain and Argentina meet at New York-New Jersey Stadium on Sunday evening in the World Cup final, a genuine clash between continental champions as reigning European champions face the defending world champions. Luis de la Fuente's side…

There is a number from Wednesday night in Atlanta that tells the whole story before a single word of tactical analysis is needed. Between Anthony Gordon's 55th-minute goal and Lautaro Martínez's 92nd-minute winner, England had 12 per cent…

Argentina and Switzerland meet at Kansas City Stadium in the early hours of Sunday morning in a World Cup quarter-final where the defending champions pursue continued dominance against European opposition seeking to make genuine tournament…

Argentina and Egypt meet at Atlanta Stadium on Tuesday afternoon in a Round of 16 encounter, both nations arriving with significant physical and personnel issues following their gruelling last-32 victories. Lionel Scaloni's reigning…

As the clock ticked down on Saudi Arabia’s 0-0 draw with Cape Verde in Houston last Friday, the online backlash was already in full swing. Prince Abdul Rahman bin Musaid, a former Al-Hilal president with 6.7 million followers on X, did not…

Lionel Messi scored his first World Cup hat-trick to equal Miroslav Klose's all-time record of 16 goals as Argentina beat Algeria 3-0 in Kansas City. It was a day that also saw Kylian Mbappé become France's all-time leading scorer and…

Being a Barcelona fan is an easy job. Now, there’s a club you can almost always count on, irrespective of the bad day you’ve been having. You know you can trust the Blaugrana to win it for you. But even in the life of a culé come certain…