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Best players in team history? Well-trodden ground. To celebrate the 2026 MLB All-Star Game (July 14 at 8 p.m. ET on FOX), we're doing something different. Based on extensive research, we're selecting the best All-Star of the century for all 30 teams. These aren't careers or even full seasons that we're looking at, but instead, the players who were the very best for their teams, from Opening Day until the […]

U.S. men's national team coach Mauricio Pochettino will throw the first pitch before Friday night’s Major League Baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays, which the team was invited to attend. Pochettino played catch with a few of his players before Friday’s practice at Husky Soccer Stadium. The U.S. plays Belgium in the World Cup round of 16 on Monday at Seattle Stadium. Pochettino has also joined […]

The sports world had its eyes on one of the best World Cup games on Friday night in Miami, when Argentina avoided what would have been the biggest upset ever in the knockout stage against Cape Verde. The African nation, making its first World Cup appearance ever, entered the tournament ranked No. 67 in the FIFA World Rankings. Argentina, the reigning champion, was No. 1. That would have been the […]

There's a moment in every Argentina game, usually as things get uncomfortable, when 80,000 heads turn in the same direction. They fixate on a 39-year-old with graying stubble and the nonchalant gaze of a man strolling to the corner store. It happened again on Friday night in Miami, with the reigning World Cup champions two fingertips from one of the most stunning upsets in tournament history. Everyone was looking for […]

Anything can happen at the World Cup, and Friday's round of 32 matches almost featured perhaps the biggest World Cup upset ever. Almost. Argentina pulled out a 3-2 dramatic victory over Cape Verde, the tournament's fan-favorite Cinderella story. It was tied up for most of the second half to force extra time — one goal from Lionel Messi and an equalizer from Deroy Duarte — but the goals kept coming. […]

England's Harry Kane has become Lionel Messi-esque in terms of his value to the collective cause, with Stan Collymore explaining to GOAL why that is a good thing and how the Three Lions' record goalscorer is benefiting from a mindset that others have lacked. The prolific Bayern Munich frontman is leading another bid for World Cup glory at present, with a star-studded squad often being carried on his back. England's […]

Lionel Messi and Argentina are through to the 2026 FIFA World Cup round of 16 after narrowly avoiding a historic upset against Cape Verde in the round of 32 at Miami Stadium on Friday, breaking through with a 111th minute extra-time goal. Messi put the reigning champion ahead with his record-extending 20th career World Cup goal in the 29th minute. Cape Verde’s Deroy Duarte scored a stunning equalizer in the […]

It's another goal and another all-time record for Lionel Messi. Messi scored his 20th career FIFA World Cup goal in Argentina's round of 16 match against Cape Verde on Friday at Miami Stadium, extending his own record for the most by any man or woman in FIFA World Cup history. It also marked his eighth consecutive World Cup match with a goal, the longest streak in the tournament's history, and […]

The GOAT continues to amaze the world as Lionel Messi now reigns supreme at the top of the list of all-time goalscorers at the World Cup. With his two goals against Austria in Argentina's group-stage game on June 22, Messi surpassed the long-standing record held by Germany’s Miroslav Klose. It came a week after Messi scored his first career World Cup hat trick in a win over Algeria, while also […]