FIFA is expected to announce a huge expansion for the 2026 World Cup, with 48 teams playing a total of 104 games across the tournament. The 2026 World Cup will take place in the United States, Canada and Mexico with 48 teams set to compete in 12 groups of 4. This will lead to a [...]
Germany
EURO 2024 qualifying matches kick off in March where a couple of European heavyweights have been drawn against each other. EURO 2024 qualifying will give us Holland versus France and Italy versus England. EURO 2024 will take place across ten cities in Germany from 14 June to 14 July 2024. The opening game will take [...]
In a big surprise, the German Football Association (DFB) have announced that Hansi Flick will continue as manager of the national team. After a conversation between DFB President Bernd Neuendorf, DFB Vice President Hans-Joachim Watzke and Flick, the association announced that they have faith that Flick will lead the team to the 2024 European Championships. [...]
The Qatar 2022 World Cup starts in little over a month. The unique winter tournament means that many of the world’s top stars playing club football right up until a week before the tournament starts. That has to be causing a lot of sleepless nights for national teams managers across the world. An injury now [...]
One of France, Germany and Portugal may face an early exit after being drawn together in Group F for Euro 2020 in what has already been dubbed the ‘Group of Death’. They will be joined in the so-called ‘Group of Death’ by a team from Path A/D following the tournament draw in Bucharest. That Path [...]
The 2020 EURO qualification just got a little more interesting with the news that UEFA has confirmed that Italy will be in Pot 1 and that Germany and Iceland will be in pot 2. Joining Italy will be seeded alongside Belgium, France, Spain, Croatia and Poland. Switzerland, Portugal, Netherlands and England are in their own [...]
FIFPro, the worldwide players’ union, and FIFA have announced the 55 names in contention for the FIFA FIFPro World11 2018. The FIFA FIFPro World11 is decided by the players, for the players and involves votes from almost 25,000 professional footballers from 65 different countries. During voting, they each select one goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders [...]
Veteran midfielder Mesut Ozil announced his retirement from the German national team on Sunday, and he did his best to shake the very foundation of the country’s soccer federation in the process. Less than a month after Germany’s embarrassing exit in group play from the 2018 World Cup, the squad’s second-most capped player tweeted he [...]
It started so well for Brazil. A rousing national anthem had the stadium in Belo Horizonte rocking and a national stood waiting to take its expected place in Sunday’s World Cup Final at the home of soccer, the Maracana stadium in Rio. But then the referee blew his whistle to start the game and a [...]
It was a game that stretched and frayed the nerves of USA soccer fame around world as Clint Dempsey gave the U.S. the perfect start when he scored after 31 seconds played, the sixth fastest goal in World Cup history. But when Jozy Altidore pulled a hamstring in the 21st minute, the US lost its [...]
