Artículos del Mundial 2026

There’s something about World Cup stadiums that gets stuck in your memory before the goals do. Maradona at Azteca. Zidane at the Olympiastadion. Iniesta in Johannesburg. You remember where it happened first, then who scored. The stadium holds the noise, the heat, the total chaos of it. And in 2026, there are 16 of them […]

Football remembers goals. But it remembers bad calls longer. Ask any Mexican fan about the 1986 World Cup and Maradona comes up before you even finish the question. Ask an English fan about Bloemfontein 2010 and just watch their face. These aren’t just errors on a scoresheet. They stick around. They become part of who […]

If the last time you really paid attention to the World Cup was Qatar 2022, you’re in for a surprise. The formato mundial 2026 brings 48 teams, 12 groups, and a round nobody’s ever seen at this tournament before: the dieciseisavos mundial 2026 – the Round of 32 for English speakers. Here’s a friendly breakdown […]

There’s something about a World Cup grudge match that club football just can’t touch. You can love your club, sure. You can hate your local rivals with every cell in your body. But when two nations meet on a World Cup pitch with old wounds still half-open? That’s a different animal entirely. Borders. Wars. Stolen […]

Every four years, the World Cup gives us a sideshow that’s almost as gripping as the trophy itself. The race for goals. The chase for the Golden Boot. You’ll see strikers checking the scoring charts between matches, coaches deciding whether to play a star one more half, fans doing mental math after every goal. It’s […]

Bring up the summer of 2014 with any Mexican football fan and the reaction is almost automatic. Robben. The dive. The referee. “No Era Penal.” It’s basically a reflex at this point, a wound the country rips back open every four years without fail. Here’s the thing though – before Robben hit the turf, before […]

Some moments in football just refuse to die. They live in group chats, in cantina arguments, in the back of every Mexican fan’s mind every four years when the World Cup comes around again. “No era penal” is one of those moments. Three words. A whole national wound. If you grew up watching El Tri, […]

The World Cup is football’s great theater. Every four years it gives us heroes, heartbreak, and the kind of arguments that never really die. You know the ones. Goals that shouldn’t have counted. Penalties that were never given. Red cards that changed history. These moments stick around – passed between generations at dinner tables in […]

Some goals fade the second the next match kicks off. Others outlive the trophy itself. You can probably forget who lifted the cup in 1970 or 1986 if you really try, but you cannot forget what Pelé’s Brazil did to Italy, or what Maradona did to England in those four ridiculous minutes. That’s the strange […]

Ask any Mexican fan over thirty where they were when Arjen Robben hit the turf in Fortaleza, and they’ll tell you before they even finish processing the question. Instant recall. Like it was last Tuesday. Honestly, the relationship between Mexico and the World Cup goes way beyond football – it’s closer to a recurring trauma […]