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ESPNMorocco win shootout to send Netherlands home
Morocco beat the Netherlands in a penalty shootout after the match finished 1-1 Monday night to advance to the round of 16.
ESPNAguirre: Azteca fans can get Mexico past Ecuador
Mexico manager Javier Aguirre said he hopes local fans will make the difference for El Tri when the World Cup co-hosts face Ecuador at Mexico City's Estadio Azteca in the round of 32 on Tuesday in a matchup of two Latin American sides.
The Guardian FootballWorld Cup 2026: Klopp plays down Germany job links; Livramento has surgery – live
David Squires on … penalty pain for Dutch and Germany Email us | Bracketology | Golden Boot | World Cup Daily Tuesday’s World Cup Daily podcast has dropped . Max, Barry, Archie and Nicky chew over last night’s drama: A couple of videos for your delectation now . Photographer Shaun Botterill has a World Cup portfolio spanning 40 years – here he talks about the moments that made those memorable images: Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballPanenka to Paraguay: Germany’s 50-year penalty shootout streak is over
Germany once scored 22 consecutive penalties in major tournament shootouts. They missed three as Paraguay won 4-3 from the spot Germany were knocked out of the 2026 World Cup on penalties, an outcome that feels unbelievable to anyone who has watched international football over the past 50 years. Paraguay beat them 4-3 in a shootout in Boston on Monday after their last-32 clash ended 1-1 following extra time. Germany had won six consecutive shootouts in all competitions before this, their only previous defeat occurring in 1976. Antonín Panenka’s legendary spot-kick condemned West Germany to a 5-3 shootout defeat in the semi-final of the European Championship. Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballMexico face up to their most terrifying opponent: the ghost of World Cup game four
El Tri have made a habit of qualifying from the group stage and then falling at the first hurdle. They are hoping the memory of 1986 will help end the curse In Mexico, the phrase ya merito (“almost there”) is closely linked to the country’s men’s football team. In Mexican Spanish, it’s a colloquial, almost affectionate expression; a way of describing something that’s close enough to touch, but that can never quite be reached. Now the phrase seems to capture something more profound about Mexico’s national team – shorthand for El Tri’s habit of not exactly failing, but always just falling short. Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballWho did it best? USA 1994 versus World Cup 2026 – then and now
From the hairstyles to the stadiums, the kits to the celebrations, we take a look at the changing face of the game. Tap on the images below to fade between the visuals It’s 32 years since Diego Maradona went berserk down the barrel of a TV camera after scoring for Argentina; since Bebeto rocked an imaginary baby to sleep; since Roberto Baggio blazed his spot-kick into orbit (the tournament’s second worst penalty after Diana Ross’s blooper during the opening ceremony); since Carlos Valderrama wowed the world with his luscious blonde mop. The visuals from the World Cup in 1994 were rich and cinematic, but does the beautiful game look that different on its return to the United States? Has football lost its style and soul? Or will this year’s tournament live just as long in the memory as its predecessor? Continue reading...
ESPNKoeman's lack of Dutch courage exposed by magnific...
Setting up a Netherlands team to play anti-football was always a gamble. On Monday, it backfired spectacularly.
BBC SportUS security chief 'danced happy dance' after Iran exit
The United States' head of homeland security says he "danced a happy dance" when Iran's elimination from the World Cup was confirmed.
The Guardian FootballEvery World Cup needs a cult hero: 2026 has given us touchline dreamboat Sebastián Beccacece
The Ecuador manager is a beautifully manicured buzz of energy with Bolivarian liberation in his heart. The tournament is all the better for him An underrated pleasure for spectators at every World Cup is observing the managers. If club football, an increasingly regimented domain of set pieces and systems, is all about structure, international soccer is much more a matter of style – and at this tournament, the theatrics of the sport’s touchline strutters have been rich with emotion and figurative power. Didier Deschamps patrols his technical area with the watchful pride of an outer-arrondissement charcutier . Luis de la Fuente is a veteran wealth manager at Banco Santander. Japan’s Hajime Moriyasu is about to go postal at his dreary office job in a Kiyoshi Kurosawa film. Socceroos coach Tony Popovic looks like he’s on his way to MC a wedding at Sydney’s King Tomislav Croatian Club . And Carlo Ancelotti is … well, he’s just Carlo Ancelotti, a man with Champions League-winning eyebrows whose fierce allegiance to his three-piece suit, even through the worst of a North American summer, suggests he’s somehow in command of his own climate. Continue reading...
BBC Sport'Indescribably hurt' Son apologises for South Korea World Cup exit
Son Heung-min apologises for South Korea's early World Cup exit and says he will "run to death" for the nation's football fans.
The Guardian FootballMorocco win wild penalty shootout as Netherlands pay heavy price for misses
Morocco’s players set off in pursuit of Ismael Saibari and, once they had caught up, lost one another in a pile of exhilarated bodies. Maybe they are about to do it all again and make a heavy dent in the latter stages of a World Cup. This was certainly a huge hurdle cleared and there were echoes of 2022 when Yassine Bounou, hero against Spain back then , repelled the Netherlands’ fifth penalty. Crysencio Summerville had struck it straight at him, the latest error in a strange and wobbly shootout; Saibari showed rare mental clarity to accept the gift. Earlier on another bundle had engulfed Cody Gakpo. Football is a vessel for myriad thoughts and feelings so it was an intensely affecting moment when, after he had rammed his team into a 72nd-minute lead, the entire Dutch squad piled on to the pitch in joy. More than that, they had done so in support. Gakpo had elected to play despite the announcement that he and his partner had tragically lost their unborn son. He was tearful upon making his way back to the centre circle, pointing to the sky and being comforted by his teammate Denzel Dumfries. Continue reading...
ESPNFrom Brazil to U.S., Spain: Why every round-of-32 ...
Then there were 32. Let's review why each team still alive at the World Cup could win the whole thing.
ESPNWorld Cup bracket overreactions: How far will USMN...
It's the perfect time to take stock of which teams are set up for success and which might be tumbling out of the tournament earlier than expected.
The Guardian FootballHow Victor Montagliani rose to the Fifa elite despite past controversies
The Concacaf president has done much to bring the World Cup to North America, and could be the man to succeed Gianni Infantino Donald Trump may have been awarded the Fifa Peace Prize but the president doesn’t yet have a whole day named after him. For now, that type of tribute goes to Victor Montagliani, the Canadian President of Concacaf. “Victor’s story is a Vancouver story,” Mayor Ken Sim told an audience at Vancouver city hall last year announcing that 12 September will officially be known as Victor Montagliani Day in the city. The room was filled with Montagliani’s family, friends, and dignitaries including Fifa General Secretary Mattias Grafström, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Wendy Cocchia, and Anthony von Mandl , a Vancouver billionaire whose businesses include White Claw Hard Seltzer, Mike’s Hard Lemonade and Más+ by Messi. MLS commissioner Don Garber sent his congratulations from across the continent. Continue reading...
ESPNBalogun leads Nigeria-descent players in World Cup...
Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the first 48-team World Cup, which featured a record 10 African countries. But the nations is being represented by many players from the diaspora.
ESPNSouth Korea coach quits after WC exit, criticism
South Korea coach Hong Myung-Bo resigned Sunday, a day after the team's quick elimination from the World Cup and following heavy criticism from the country's president.
ESPNKubo out vs Brazil but Japan can 'change history'
For the third consecutive game Japan will be without key playmaker Takefusa Kubo for Monday's massive round-of-32 meeting with Brazil.
The Guardian FootballWhat hosting the World Cup means for Canadian soccer: ‘The stakes are absolutely massive’
Of the trio of World Cup hosts, only Canada is hosting the tournament for the first time – local soccer officials hope it can be transformative Toronto’s Front Street, which loosely tethers the city’s central station and some of its landmarks to the part of the waterfront that hosts the fan fest and Toronto Stadium to the west, thrummed all week with a pleasant energy. Hours ahead of Croatia-Panama on Tuesday, there were scores of jerseys out for those countries, of course, but plenty for Brazil and Scotland and other sides as well. A Croatian fan scolded a street vendor hawking Blue Jays gear by the Rogers Center, where the baseball team were about to play, for not selling any Croatia merch. “Croatia!” he said gruffly. “Gonna win today!” Continue reading...