What can I expect from France? Didier Deschamps will attempt to bring the curtain down on 14 years in charge of France by ...

Emiliano Martinez has been a vital figure in Argentina's current era of international success, making key saves and ...

After a study bashed KC, the city got some major love for being a 2026 World Cup host city.

The greatest players have graced the World Cup and often lived up to top billing. Lionel Messi has been named player of the ...

The World Cup arrives Thursday in L.A., and culture lovers can get in on the action at a variety of local museum watch ...

In this article, GOAL lists every World Cup host city, from 1930 to 2026. In 1930, the inaugural tournament took place in ...

For decades, commentators have repeated a seductive claim: when a nation wins the FIFA World Cup, a baby boom follows nine ...

The former soccer star, who notched three World Cup appearances himself in 1998, 2002, and 2006, shared his top predictions, ...

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 ...

From Mario Kempes to Lionel Messi, we look back over the winners of the men’s World Cup’s player-of-the-tournament award.

Goalies will keep making big saves and defenders will keep putting their bodies on the line, but it’s the strikers who will ...

Vladimir Petkovic guides Algeria back to the FIFA World Cup this summer for the first time since 2014.The Desert Foxes make a ...