Nobody saw Paraguay coming. That’s the brutal truth of it. Germany — ranked 12th in the world, one of international football’s most storied nations — walked into Boston Stadium against a side ranked 34th and got knocked out of their own World Cup on penalties. The consequences were always going to be swift. And…
For 85 minutes this looked like one of those evenly matched knockout battles that could have gone either way. Then the clock ticked toward the 86th minute and football reminded everyone of a simple truth — when you have Erling Haaland on your team, the game is never quite over. Norway weren’t even playing particularly…
A 2-0 win over Australia on Friday night in Seattle. A perfect record through the group stage. And now, thanks to Paraguay’s 1-0 win over Turkey, the United States have officially clinched top spot in Group D. The road to potential World Cup glory is mapped out. And right now it’s looking brighter than American…
One moment he was the best player on the pitch. The next he was walking down the tunnel at halftime with no explanation and 70,000 fans collectively holding their breath. Christian Pulisic coming off at the break against Paraguay was the one moment that threatened to put a dampener on an otherwise perfect evening for…
Five World Cup appearances. Three assists. And a record that Cristiano Ronaldo — with 22 appearances and six World Cups under his belt — has never managed to match. Captain America is doing something very special. And the tournament has barely even started. The Number That Stopped Everyone In Their Tracks Let’s put this into…
70,000 seats. A historic 4-1 win. And somewhere in that vast SoFi Stadium bowl, scattered among tens of thousands of screaming fans, sat some of the most recognisable faces on the planet. President Trump couldn’t make it — he had an 80th birthday party to plan back in Washington, which is a sentence that exists…
70,492 fans packed into SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Friday night. And every single one of them witnessed something that hasn’t happened in nearly a century of American football history. The United States didn’t just beat Paraguay 4-1 in their World Cup opener. They rewrote the record books while doing it. A First Half…