#world-cup-2026

#world-cup-2026

We don't want to just show up for the game, we want to be able to compete, but we are not being given the opportunity to be at our best. Mount Pleasant sporting director Paul Christie expressed frustration about the visa denials limiting the team's competitive capability for their Champions Cup debut.

FIFA will allow broadcasters to go to commercial breaks during hydration breaks, the Athletic reported last week. A FIFA spokesperson confirmed the changes to Fortune. While more frequent ad breaks are not likely to surprise many viewers based in the U.S., it's a significant departure from how commercials have traditionally featured in soccer elsewhere.

The team needs a fresh face, a different energy, and a new perspective with a new coach. I think the team needs a new lease of life before the World Cup, a new vision to continue progressing. My decision to leave is part of this team's evolution.

It's obviously an extremely tragic situation for Marc; it would have been his turn now. That something so dramatic would come from such a simple action as a normal pass. Looking at his history with the national team, it would have been his turn now.

Having undergone surgery on his right ankle on December 18th after a month of conservative therapy with no results, Gimenez is determined to use the final two months of the season to achieve some things. As Calciomercato.com report, he wants to carve out a valuable role for himself at Milan - also with an eye to his future - to regain top form, and to secure a spot in the Mexican national team's squad for the World Cup on home soil, kicking off in mid-June.

I don't have anything established in my future, I have an open mind. Why not manage another La Liga side? I'm open to listening to offers. I'm looking for an exciting project and I have the ambition to win titles. That's my goal. I want my players to have fun, perform an attractive football style for their fans and finally to win trophies.

A lot of us have been under the assumption, and I think fairly so, that this was a short-term hire. There wasn't a [four-year World Cup] cycle involved, [it was] a year and a half, two years, at the most here. [He] didn't have to go through a qualifying process because we are hosting.

FIFA on Wednesday finalized a one-time switch to Canada from Mexico for winger Marcelo Flores, thereby making the 22-year-old eligible to be selected by coach Jesse Marsch for this summer's World Cup. Revealed on FIFA's Change of Association Platform, the switch for the now former Mexico international cements a recent effort by Canada to include Flores following an unofficial call-up as a training player last November.

Marcus Rashford's future appears to be moving decisively away from Old Trafford, with the England forward reportedly having no plans to return to Manchester United once his loan spell at Barcelona comes to an end this summer. The 28-year-old has already made his intentions clear, prioritising stability and clarity over a reunion with his boyhood club. Rashford joined Barcelona on loan in search of a reset after a turbulent period at Man United, where form, confidence, and scrutiny combined to stall his momentum.

Germany midfielder Leon Goretzka says United States President Donald Trump has managed to make us feel not only German, but also European. Goretzka, who plays club football for Bayern Munich, in an interview with Die Zeit newspaper published on Wednesday, spoke about the World Cup being hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico, and he suggested Germany and other European teams will be the favourites.

Every World Cup arrives with controversy. That is part of the tournament's DNA. Host nations worry about stadium readiness. Fans argue about ticket prices. Security planners lose sleep. What feels different this time is that the warning is not coming from activists in the stands or lawmakers in host cities. It is coming from the top of the sport's old establishment.

CITYWIDE- NYC HEALTH + HOSPITALS/BELLEVUE, IN PREPARING FOR THE U.S. HOSTING THE WORLD CUP SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS THIS YEAR, has trained close to 500 health care and public health professionals to respond to high-consequence infectious disease threats. The city's public hospital system announced on Tuesday, Jan. 27, that during 2025, the health care professionals were trained across four jurisdictions encompassing New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Removing the United States as co-host of the 2026 World Cup would hurt for pretty much everyone. Fans would miss out on seeing the sport's pinnacle in their home towns (or somewhere nearby). Cities and businesses small and large would lose the financial benefits they had banked on. It would be a logistical and political nightmare on an international scale, the likes of which have never been seen before in sports. It would be eminently sad. And it would be entirely justified.

Could Germany boycott the 2026 World Cup? Oke Gottlich, president of Bundesliga side St. Pauli and one of ten vice presidents of the German federation, told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper that the time has come to seriously consider and discuss this in terms of possibly boycotting the World Cup. What were the justifications for the boycotts of the Olympic Games in the 1980s? he said. By my reckoning the potential threat is greater now than it was then. We need to have this discussion.

The huge, roaring screenings, the pubs' fizzling energy, the general sense of revelry in the streets... not to mention the ecstasy if and when England win. The joy of last summer's Lionesses Euros triumph is certainly still fresh in our memories. England and Scotland are already qualified for the 2026 World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States, while Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland could all still compete in North America in June.

AT&T Stadium's retractable dome and climate control create ideal July conditions in a state where outdoor summer football constitutes punishment. The 60-yard video screen is so infamous that punted footballs occasionally strike it during Cowboys games. It dominates the interior and is a show stopper, especially for the stadium's first-time goers. The capacity makes this the tournament's largest venue, though FIFA caps attendance at 94,000 for World Cup configurations.