Two down. Two to go. The FIFA World Cup 2026 quarter-finals are delivering everything they promised. Spain beat Belgium 2-1 in Los Angeles today and, in doing so, confirmed one of the most anticipated semi-finals in recent World Cup history: Spain vs France. Dallas, July 15. The two best sides in the tournament, meeting with […]
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There is a type of footballer who makes the game look unhurried. The kind who receives the ball under pressure with nowhere obvious to go, and somehow, in half a second, finds a pass nobody in the stadium saw coming. Pau Cubarsi is 19 years old and already at that level. In the FIFA World […]
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There were other goals this week. None of them come close. Kylian Mbappe’s 60th-minute strike at the Boston Stadium — the goal that broke Morocco’s extraordinary defensive resistance and sent France into the FIFA World Cup 2026 semi-finals — is the kind of finish that gets replayed for decades. Individual brilliance at the highest level, […]
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There is a pattern in the history between Argentina and Switzerland. Argentina win, usually. But Switzerland never make it easy. These two nations have met enough times across the decades to establish a recurring theme: Argentina bring the names, the flair, and the expectation; Switzerland bring the organisation, the defensive intelligence, and a stubborn refusal […]
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