A bronze medal is not what England came to the United States for. Nobody travels to a World Cup dreaming of third place. But football is not always about what you came for — sometimes it is about what you leave with. England leave the FIFA World Cup 2026™ with a bronze medal — their […]
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England had Argentina. For a full hour at Atlanta Stadium, they matched the defending world champions in every department — every ball contested, no free space conceded, the kind of skill and attitude that had carried them through the knockout rounds of increasingly difficult opposition. Then Anthony Gordon scored. And then Thomas Tuchel made the […]
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Maradona. Pelé. Garrincha. Kocsis. Piola. And now Jude Bellingham. In the long, 88-year history of the FIFA World Cup, only six players have ever scored a brace in consecutive knockout-stage matches at the same tournament. Bellingham became the sixth to do so at the FIFA World Cup 2026™, and the first to do so in […]
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Thirty-two years old. Seventy-eight international goals. Three consecutive Bundesliga top-scorer awards. The European Golden Shoe. And still there is no national team trophy to show for it. Harry Kane arrives at the 2026 football World Cup as arguably the most statistically dominant center-forward in world football — and the most decorated player of his generation […]
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