TRENDING

Delta Police recover 1,600 counterfeit dollar bills from fraudsters • Osun Guber: Labour Party urges calm amid rising political violence • LaLiga: Real Madrid confirm date Mourinho will officially join club • Xenophobia Evacuations: Nigerian returnee recounts traumatic experiences in South Africa as Nigeria evacuates citizens • ‘You can make money without corruption’ – Sanusi tells professionals • Co-Hosts Mexico Take Early Advantage As World Cup Kicks Off • Kwara transport unions beg Tinubu, AbdulRazaq to fix collapsed bridges • EFCC arrests airport security officer, two others over alleged gold smuggling in Kano • June Gen Z Pick 2026: Japa, hustle or stay – Can young Nigerians get ahead? • Cardoso says CBN reforms restoring confidence after winning global award • Middle East war pushes global growth to weakest rate since COVID 19 – World Bank • Meet the women seeking to become the UN’s first female secretary general • Six insurance firms’ eye N38.4bn profit in H1 • Africa is not poor. It is being drained, By Steve Aborisade • We won’t rest until all parts of FCT feel democracy dividends – Tinubu • Xenophobia Evacuations: MTN to donate cash, airtime to returnees as Imo govt promises indigenes N1m • APC elders warn Tinubu may face electoral risk in Adamawa over candidate imposition • Corruption pulling Nigeria backward – PDP chieftain • Why Tinubu’s programmes, policies are pro-youth – Shettima • Xenophobia: ‘Enough is enough’ – Nigerian Govt • Delta Police recover 1,600 counterfeit dollar bills from fraudsters • Osun Guber: Labour Party urges calm amid rising political violence • LaLiga: Real Madrid confirm date Mourinho will officially join club • Xenophobia Evacuations: Nigerian returnee recounts traumatic experiences in South Africa as Nigeria evacuates citizens • ‘You can make money without corruption’ – Sanusi tells professionals • Co-Hosts Mexico Take Early Advantage As World Cup Kicks Off • Kwara transport unions beg Tinubu, AbdulRazaq to fix collapsed bridges • EFCC arrests airport security officer, two others over alleged gold smuggling in Kano • June Gen Z Pick 2026: Japa, hustle or stay – Can young Nigerians get ahead? • Cardoso says CBN reforms restoring confidence after winning global award • Middle East war pushes global growth to weakest rate since COVID 19 – World Bank • Meet the women seeking to become the UN’s first female secretary general • Six insurance firms’ eye N38.4bn profit in H1 • Africa is not poor. It is being drained, By Steve Aborisade • We won’t rest until all parts of FCT feel democracy dividends – Tinubu • Xenophobia Evacuations: MTN to donate cash, airtime to returnees as Imo govt promises indigenes N1m • APC elders warn Tinubu may face electoral risk in Adamawa over candidate imposition • Corruption pulling Nigeria backward – PDP chieftain • Why Tinubu’s programmes, policies are pro-youth – Shettima • Xenophobia: ‘Enough is enough’ – Nigerian Govt

Back to Home

2026 World Cup

The United States enter a charged World Cup asking: what is enough?

The Guardian Football about 4 hours 1 mins read

Unlike most other countries, the US are playing the 2026 World Cup not just for themselves, but for the future of their voice in the sport

World Cup newsletter | Daily podcast | Download the app

Mauricio Pochettino paused. The microphone signal flickered. He tried, for a second time, to say a few things to the 5,500 fans who had gathered in the sun Monday at Championship Soccer Stadium in Irvine, California – the United States’ World Cup home base – for an open training session. Nothing. Then something. More choppy audio. By the time things came back online, he had developed a quip.

“We are in the greatest country in the world,” he said in his Rioplatense-accented English. “But the technology does not work.”

This article was sourced from an external publication.

Share this article