The 2026 World Cup is absolutely breaking records:
Sold-out stadiums, insane digital numbers, and more global eyes than ever before.
As the final 8 teams prepare for the knockout stage, this tournament is rewriting the history books.
Biggest, loudest, most watched World Cup ever
Source: @FIFAcom / Writer: Val
BREAKING @TheAthleticFC
Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium with his one-game red-card ban suspended. Extraordinary development.
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Uzbekistan v Colombia is the World Cup’s only group-stage match between a double-landlocked country and a country with coastlines on two oceans.
Uzbekistan is one of only two double-landlocked countries, and Colombia has coastlines on both the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.