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Mexico v South Africa: World Cup 2026 opening match – live

The Guardian Football about 2 hours 1 mins read

⚽️ Kick-off time: 1pm local/8pm BST/3pm EDT/5am AEST
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What a feeling! Thirty-nine days, 104 matches, and the greatest joy known to humankind, an affirming, inspiring, immersive, absorbing, challenging, compelling, enriching, educational orgy of glorious, wondrous, beauteous football. Drink it in, people!

Just be careful you don’t choke. Because though we thought that, after Russia and Qatar, World Cups – or should that be Worlds Cup, we deal with all the important issues here – couldn’t get any more problematic, here we are.

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