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Get ready for the World Cup final! What you need to know, top players, best moments, predictions, odds
We're down to the final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, as there are now just two teams still harboring dreams of becoming world champions.

World Cup Daily live: Final countdown as Spain-Argentina get ready to take New York

Top Headlines

Master vs. apprentice
It's Lamine Yamal vs. Lionel Messi: The young pretender vs. the legend

'The stars align!': Photographer recalls viral Messi-Yamal photos

No one wanted to play, but England helped deliver a third-place match to treasure

Player ratings: Bukayo Saka gets 9/10 as England beat France to seal third place



Transfer Talk
Transfer rumors, news: Barcelona set deadline for Álvarez; Rodri wants Real Madrid

Onuoha: Morgan Rogers joining Chelsea is Alonso's statement of intent


The GOAT of all sports?
This World Cup seals it: Messi is the greatest male athlete the world has ever seen

Should Messi win the Ballon d'Or if Argentina win the World Cup?


La Roja are ready
Press and possess: Spain's secret sauce is a suffocating defense

Back to his Ballon d'Or-winning best, Rodri has powered Spain to World Cup final


World Cup fun
World's most remote World Cup final watch parties, from Antarctica to 'Mars of the mid-Atlantic'

What's in an emote? Analyzing 747 gestures during the World Cup group stage


Looking back at the USMNT's World Cup
World Cup time capsule: Images the USMNT will remember forever

Ream reflects on USMNT disappointment and World Cup legacy

Top Headlines
- England hold off France in WC game for the ages
- Mbappé breaks Messi's World Cup goals record
- Messi: Yamal photo 'incredible' path to WC final
- Cheapest WC final last-minute ticket is $10,000
- Sources: Chelsea agree $157M Rogers deal
- Wenger: Future of hydration breaks undecided
- Wrexham beat Man Utd 1-0 in Helsinki friendly
- Summit FC beat Thorns in Lindsey Heaps' debut
- 👀How Argentina beat Spain to recruit Messi
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