From aspirational to beatific to snakebit to utterly lost and ever so strangely found, Argentina stumble across on the right foot of...

Our lead photo, goes to the referee, Sandro Ricci, the game's most interesting character. And Stu Holden gets the line of the day: “Ten...

There were a few unsurprising elements about a generally surprising day: Uruguay are mind-numbing to watch; Group A was the “Group of...

Feeling nervy about marking perhaps the world's most dangerous #9 in must-win game? Debut a neophyte center back duo in their early 20s,...

At Real Madrid, he’s known as El Cirujano, the surgeon, and if he left a tool inside the patient with the giveaway on Sweden’s first...

No team has been more entertaining and synchronous in the attack than the star-studded Belgium, and unlike other celebrities...

At Real Madrid, he’s known as El Cirujano, the surgeon, and if he left a tool inside the patient with the giveaway on Sweden’s first...

A week ago, summing up the Argentinian team, I wrote that they were simply too old, and “I suspect this will be a time when it becomes...

Another bad day for long-haired svengali coaches with talented attacking teams that can’t finish, no matter how much we like them....

Morocco has much to rue today, both for having been able to squeeze a goal from dominant performance today, and for not finding this...

The Day of Sudden Calamities: Each day turned on a tragic moment (or two), upending games and one of the weirder days that I can recall. ...

A just result in a game that went south. The real shame of the Walker PK call is that, the situation being what it was, it robbed us of...

Untwist your knickers, punderatti! The first half was a bit stultifying, but Belgian probed, Panama got some good stops from the keeper...

Add cynical fouling to banking, watches and chocolates to the national specialities as the Swiss bring buzzkill to what was shaping up to...

1. The Mexican National Team Coach is a job that people turn down, because it’s impossible. The most intense, fervent supporters in the...

One of the things that I love about soccer is that a guy like Modric, who looks more like an extra in "Trainspotting" than a guy who goes...

Definitely the first game where the result stings. Peru was utterly more entertaining, more positive, more interesting, more...

Oh. What. A. Game! So much to enjoy here, just epic drama and scintillating tension that was contained enough to keep it from becoming a...

Hoping for some great stuff from the Atlas Lions! A lot of attacking talent and intention here. Nothing against Iran, but we could get...