Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni drew criticism for an unusual comment about Lionel Messi's role before the World Cup.

We looked at previous 22 winners to decide the key metrics behind predicting which team will win - and got a familiar ...

Argentina are aiming to become just the third nation to win back-to-back World Cups when they begin their title defence ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

With the 23rd Fifa World Cup only days away, we briefly recount the story of every edition of the world’s most popular ...