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I live in a soccer bubble. Even if I wanted to pretend otherwise, my work and my life create circumstances that might make living any other way exceedingly difficult. To be clear, living this way a choice and I'm happy to make it. After eighteen-ish years of
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The brightest stars command—and take command of—the biggest stages. When it comes game that inflames the passions of billions around the world, there is no bigger stage than the World Cup. Superstars can thrive in the top leagues of Europe and capture the most coveted prices in club
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World Cup Day 5 delivered a quartet of draws, each of which was fascinating in isolation. Collectively, the four mean that groups G and H are a wide open affairs going into Matchday 2; with one of the presumptive challengers for the World Cup trophy in Group H and Group
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I'm not sure I believe there's a good answer for "How many teams is the right number of teams for the World Cup finals" if the question is about inclusion and competition and not about the logistical problem of holding more than 100 games.
Saturday. The first day of the 2026 World Cup that delivered three games in a single day—unless you live west of the Mississippi—in which case it was four. Australia v. Turkiye kicking off at midnight eastern, an hour after the end of the Haiti v. Scotland game in
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I'm twelve hours on from USA 4, Paraguay 1 and while some of it might be lack of sleep or too much caffeine, my buzz is strong. The soccer team I have cared more about than any other in the history of my soccer experience—and the very
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World Cup Day 1 gave us a colorful opening ceremony that even too much of Gianni Infantino's bald pate couldn't ruin, a not-so-convincing Mexico win marked by three dismissals, and as South Korea triumph over Czechia in Guadalajara. Fly With The Soccer Eagle For
There's nothing quite like the feeling of roiling internal turmoil brought on by the most exciting sporting event in the world arriving in your country against the backdrop of a war being waged by one of the host nations against one of the tournament participants—among other drains
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World Cup kickoff week is thankfully here and while there seem to be a few...um...administrative issues around some rather important elements of holding the world's biggest sporting tournament in Mexico, the United States, and Canada, I'm almost certain games will be played and we&
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It's June. The World Cup starts in June. That means the World Cup is here. Practically. It's certainly here in my brain, where a chaotic mess of thought threads has already formed around the tournament and what's about to land when the games actually
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It's time again for Good Soccer/Bad Soccer, the weekly news roundup from Soccer Eagle. This week, GS/BS is fully embracing the World Cup insanity with a collection of items that lean into the good, bad, and super weird that comes with holding the biggest sporting event
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Thanks to the top notch reporting of two American soccer journalism's top men, Pablo Maurer and Jeff Rueter, the USMNT roster will land later today with a decided paucity of drama. That development (the roster leak) is maybe more fascinating to me than the roster itself. Pablo and