Guela Doué scored a goal and set up the winning strike as Ivory Coast surprised France — and Doué’s brother in the French dugout — with a 2-1 victory in a World Cup tune-up match Thursday. Amad Diallo fired home Doué’s low cross from the right six minutes from time at Stade de la Beaujoire…
Emerse Faé deserves a lot of credit as he pulled off quite an upset in his hometown. The Ivory Coast manager, born in the French city of Nantes, led the team he once represented as a player to one of the biggest shocks in the run-up to the 2026 World Cup by beating tournament favorite…
Liverpool have a new manager. Just over a year after Arne Slot led the Reds to a record-equalling 20th English championship, the Dutchman has been replaced in the dugout by Andoni Iraola. The change of coach has already lifted spirits around Anfield after a disastrous Premier League title defense that featured 12 defeats, while Liverpool…
Liverpool hired Andoni Iraola as manager on Thursday, turning to the former Bournemouth coach whose intense and heavy-pressing playing approach resembles the ideology that brought the team so much success under former Anfield favorite Jürgen Klopp. The 43-year-old Spaniard, who has signed a deal for an undisclosed length, left his job at Bournemouth at the…
A year before making coach Mauricio Pochettino’s USA roster for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Matt Freese had never even played an international game. Now, he heads into the Greatest Show in Sports as the Stars and Stripes’ projected No. 1 goalkeeper. Freese has taken an unusual path to get to this point. The son…
As one of three host nations, El Tri will look to make 2026 its year to go deeper than the Round of 16. More on that later. Here are the odds for how Mexico will fare in this year’s tournament. This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up…
The last two World Cup winners came from Europe and South America, as France won it all in 2018 and Argentina won in 2022. Will this year’s FIFA Men’s World Cup emerge from one of those regions? Here are the latest World Cup regional odds as of June 4. This page may contain affiliate links…
The 2026 World Cup was supposed to be another waypoint on Lamine Yamal’s path to becoming a generation-defining superstar, but there is the genuine threat that an injury could deprive the tournament of one of its biggest names. The Spanish wonderkid made everyone sit up and take notice at Euro 2024, and two years on,…
We’ll learn a lot more about the U.S. national team on Saturday, when it takes on Germany in Chicago. We should see what head coach Mauricio Pochettino is thinking for his starting lineup, which I’ll talk about below, and get a look at what we can expect during the tournament. I sifted through an avalanche…
In 2022, Sebastian Berhalter went to the World Cup, but not as a player. Instead, he went to support his father, Gregg, who was coaching the United States men’s national team in Qatar. This time around, it’s Sebastian that will be going to the World Cup with Mauricio Pochettino at the helm of the U.S….
