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  1. games
    Argentina v Colombia - CONMEBOL Copa America USA 2024: Final
    Can America Even Get It Together to Host a World Cup?The Copa América debacle is a very worrying sign for 2026.
    By Will Leitch
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    United States v Bolivia - CONMEBOL Copa America USA 2024
    The U.S. Men’s Soccer Team Is Excellent. Does Anyone Care?Soccer has never been more popular in America, but fan interest in the country’s national teams is on a curious decline.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Best World Cup Final Ever?Wow, what a game.
    By Ryu Spaeth
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    The Last World CupAfter Qatar, soccer may never be the same again.
    By Ryu Spaeth
  5. games
    Fox Sports Still Sucks at This, and Other World Cup TakeawaysWhat we learned from a riveting and dispiriting tournament.
    By Will Leitch
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    There’s Nothing More American Than Watching Soccer in SpanishThe time-honored pleasures of tuning in to Telemundo.
    By Adam Elder
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    The Best Team in the World Is Out of the World CupAnother devastating quarterfinals defeat for Brazil.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    Goalkeepers Gone WildAt the World Cup, netminders are increasingly going on offense. The consequences can be miraculous or disastrous.
    By David Gendelman
  9. ‘i can do my time’
    Why Was Eric Adams Really in Qatar?The mayor went to some World Cup matches, met investors, and didn’t appear to say much about the tournament’s alleged abuses.
    By Matt Stieb
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    The U.S. Team Can Hold Their Heads HighLosing to the Netherlands was deeply frustrating, but the Americans’ best days are ahead of them.
    By Will Leitch
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    Roger Bennett Is U.S. Soccer’s Biggest FanHe may speak with an English accent, but he has distinctly American ingenuity.
    By Matt Stieb
  12. games
    The U.S. Can Absolutely Beat the Netherlands on SaturdayYour guide to this weekend’s very big, very winnable game.
    By Will Leitch
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    Pulisic Says He’ll Return From Very Painful-Sounding Injury“Pelvic” and “contusion” are two words you never want to see together.
    By Benjamin Hart
  14. games
    The U.S. Pulled It OffThey survived a tense second half and an injury to their best player to beat Iran.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Five Most Dramatic Subplots Ahead of U.S.-IranAs the geopolitical foes square off in Qatar, there’s a lot hanging in the balance.
    By Benjamin Hart
  16. games
    The U.S. Just Outplayed England at the World CupThey were the better team in Friday’s scoreless draw — which is amazing.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Biggest World Cup Upset in History?Saudi Arabia beat Argentina on Tuesday, in one of the great soccer shockers of all time.
    By Benjamin Hart
  18. games
    The U.S. Team’s Draw With Wales Felt Like a LossDisappointment at not beating a top-20 team is actually a sign of progress for the Americans.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Weirdest and Most Dramatic Moments at the World Cup So Far“We want beer!” is not a chant you hear at every tournament.
    By Benjamin Hart
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    The Wrenching Moral Calculus of Watching the World CupQatar 2022 is rotten to the core, but ignoring the tournament is not realistic.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
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    The World Cup Is the Only Real American Underdog StorySometimes it’s nice to root for a scrappy up-and-comer, and this year’s men’s team is exactly that.
    By Will Leitch
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    Did You Know the World Cup Is in Two Months?The strange timing (and location) of the world’s biggest sporting event will make it a hard sell in America.
    By Will Leitch
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    The 10 Biggest Sports Stories of the DecadeFrom the rise of athlete autonomy to the end of a very long baseball curse.
    By Will Leitch
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    A National Team for the Trump EraThe U.S. Women’s World Cup victory was sweet because of Megan Rapinoe’s and her teammates’ activism.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Women’s World Cup and the Future of American SportsThe last American triumph in the Women’s World Cup felt like the birth of a new era in women’s sports. Another win could lead to the era’s maturation.
    By Will Leitch
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    Missing the World Cup Is Like Detention for the United StatesSomehow it fits that America missed the tournament for the first time in a generation.
    By Will Leitch
  27. The U.S. May Not Land the 2026 World Cup and It’s All Trump’s FaultMore than 200 FIFA members have to vote on the host and Trump has reportedly imperiled America’s chances.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  28. the sports section
    Relive the Most Glorious Moments From Team USA’s World Cup Final WinCarli Lloyd was relentless.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  29. fifa
    Vladimir Putin Is Not Impressed With the FIFA IndictmentOther people and organizations are not impressed with FIFA.
    By Jaime Fuller
  30. the sports section
    Rival Popes Will Not Be Watching the World Cup Together, or at AllThey don’t really care, and it’s on too late anyway.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  31. ink-stained wretches
    The Saddest Newspaper Front Pages in Brazil After Their World Cup EmbarrassmentO major fiasco da história.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  32. the most important people in the world
    Famous People Watching the U.S. World Cup GameOn Air Force One, at a random person’s Brooklyn apartment, and so on.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  33. that’s our joe!
    Smiley Joe Biden Congratulates U.S. World Cup Team With BidenismsThe vice president brings the good vibes.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  34. the internet
    Delta Airlines Learns Giraffes Don’t Live in GhanaA celebratory World Cup tweet went very wrong.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. the sports section
    Leitch: Is 2014 the Year Soccer in America (Truly) Goes Mainstream?Just wait until the national team gets good.
    By Will Leitch
  36. the sports section
    U.S. World Cup Draw Basically HopelessThe United States will face Ghana, Portugal, and Germany.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  37. very sad things
    Brazil World Cup Stadium Collapse Kills ThreeA crane malfunction occurred today at Itaquerao Stadium in São Paulo.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  38. i’d like to be under the sea
    Paul the Octopus Is Predicting Things in Heaven NowBecause he’s dead.
    By Dan Amira
  39. terrorism
    World Cup Viewers in Uganda Killed by BlastsGroup with Al Qaeda ties is suspected.
    By Josh Duboff
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    Spain Wins World Cup!By one point.
    By Mike Vilensky
  41. cleaning up
    BP to Experience Most Annoying Payback EverWith vuvuzelas.
    By Dan Amira
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    Ghana Eliminates U.S. in World CupIt’s over for the Americans, but Ghana moves on to play Uruguay.
    By Mike Vilensky
  43. down the memory hole
    North Koreans Still Waiting to Hear About Glorious World Cup VictoryThe one where they lost 7-0.
    By Dan Amira
  44. amusing images
    Chuckling Obama Looks Cuter Than Fuming Beckham After English Goalkeeper’s Game-Changing ErrorThe game-changing shot left us all amused. Even the President, perhaps.
    By Mike Vilensky
  45. england
    England and U.S. Face Off in an Oil-Related Phone Call and a World Cup Match TodayTensions are higher than usual with our neighbors across the pond.
    By Mike Vilensky
  46. terror plots
    Iraq Claims to Have Uncovered Al Qaeda Plot Targeting World CupSaudi officer detained for plotting a “terrorist act.”
    By Josh Duboff