The biggest World Cup in history featuring 48 teams is shrinking fast. Which nations have been condemned to elimination?

Argentina head coach Lionel Scaloni looks on from the sideline before the game against Venezuela. Sam Navarro-Imagn Images.

Spain land as the value pick at 10/11 in this Iberian World Cup 2026 Round of 16 clash with Portugal at AT&T Stadium, Dallas.

The reigning world champions meet one of the tournament’s great surprise packages in Atlanta — and with Lionel Messi hunting ...

How Cabo Verde reached its first World Cup by recognizing talent bigger nations overlooked, and what it teaches leaders about ...

Cape Verde is celebrating a sports-filled weekend. The national soccer team returned home Sunday as heroes after reaching the ...

Cape Verde’s World Cup team walked into its Miami hotel after getting eliminated from the tournament, almost in disbelief at ...

FIFA has spent decades expanding the World Cup, but qualifying for the tournament did not guarantee that supporters, ...

With the Round of 32 in the books, it's again time to power-rank the remaining teams in the 2026 World Cup. As always, my two ...

The tiny African nation was eliminated from the World Cup by one of soccer’s biggest powers, Argentina, but there was still ...

Cape Verde bows out of the World Cup, but it does so after writing one of the tournament’s most beautiful stories. In their ...

Cape Verde didn't win a match at the World Cup, and somehow, that didn't seem to matter. The African team's debut on this ...