World-Cup-2026

He should be finished. Football’s cruellest law says so: no 39-year-old has any business dictating a World Cup. Nobody told Lionel Messi. The little Argentine maestro has turned the summer of 2026 into one last, glorious middle finger to Father Time, and last night in Atlanta he produced the sort of stone-cold miracle that has made grown men cry into their beers from Rosario to Rawalpindi. Two goals down. Eleven minutes left. Written off. Buried. Done. And then: BOOM. Messi happened. Picture: Re...

Egypt breathed a sigh of relief after head coach Hossam Hassan said captain Mohamed Salah's injury is not serious, raising hopes that the star forward will be available for the team's FIFA World Cup Round of 32 match against Australia. Concern spread through the Egyptian camp after Salah was fo...

Brazil’s 3–0 win over Haiti in the group stage of the FIFA World Cup brought a wave of relief not only among fans but also across Bangladesh’s entertainment industry. After a disappointing draw against Morocco in their opening match, supporters had been anxious but much of that concern has now e...

Moroccan captain and PSG defender Achraf Hakimi will stand trial over allegations of rape, French prosecutors have confirmed. The 27-year-old defender is accused of raping a 24-year-old woman at his home in Paris in 2023. Prosecutors in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris, opened a preliminary i...