Neymar will play for Brazil at the World Cup for the fourth time at the age of 34. In the third of a series on players at ...

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The biggest World Cup in history is upon us. Over 104 matches across 38 days in 16 host cities in three countries, the world ...

Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app. A thousand matches. Many of them life-changing, several history-changing. All of them part of the story. After 96 ...

Every four years, the FIFA World Cup turns India into a football-crazy nation, regardless of whether the national team is playing. Yet with kickoff around the corner, millions of fans found themselves ...

Brazil forward Neymar has been sidelined with a calf injury as the 2026 FIFA World Cup draws near. Brazil forward Neymar has dominated headlines in the weeks leading up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.