The United States will face Paraguay, Australia and the winner of a UEFA playoff featuring Türkiye, Romania, Slovakia and Kosovo after a relatively favorable group stage draw for the co-hosts of the ...

The 48-team field was split into 12 groups of four for the tournament's early rounds. With President Donald Trump and the leaders of Canada and Mexico, the host nations of the 2026 men’s World Cup, ...

U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino will take nothing for granted but with none of those nations ranked in the top 20 by FIFA it would be a major disappointment if his team failed to advance as one of the ...

Australia has been a mainstay at World Cups over the last 20 years. After reaching only their second such FIFA tournament in 2006, the Socceroos have now qualified on six consecutive occasions for ...

US President Donald Trump stole the show at the glitzy ceremony in Washington DC where footballing nations around the globe learned their fate for next year’s tournament. Australia has emerged as one ...

The Socceroos were officially handed a World Cup boost, with the opportunity to land an easier group at the 2026 tournament. FIFA announced last Wednesday morning the pots for next week’s draw, with ...

WASHINGTON — The path out of the group stage for the U.S. Men’s National Team at the World Cup is crystal clear. A favorable draw Friday afternoon, with the U.S. facing Paraguay and Australia in Group ...

House Democrats need to gain just a handful of seats next year to take control of the chamber, which would imperil Trump’s ...

Initially, Pochettino joked to reporters in the post-draw mixed zone at the Kennedy Center that having just faced Australia and Paraguay “means less work, because we’ve already done the homework, ...

A recent report surprised when it showed high and upper-middle income countries accounted for 76 percent of Chinese loans ...