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American soccer fan base surges
American soccer’s fan base has grown to 75.2 million in July 2026 from 66.8 million in July 2025, according to Nielsen’s proprietary Fan Insights data report. That is the World Cup effect: an increase of 12 percent. That’s more than the previous five years combined, according to Nielsen, a 10.9% leap from May 2020 to May 2025. The size of the fan base puts the USA right behind Brazil as the world’s largest soccer countries where the men’s national team is a regular World Cup participant.
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No party, no Scotland. No glory either.
As the pubs and public of Boston will attest, Scotland made a good impression at the 2026 World Cup. Unfortunately, good impressions created by jocose and jovial patrons within a given city’s watering holes do not translate into good results on the field. While everyone loves a lush in a kilt with a traffic cone […]
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Stuart Holden on broadcasting the biggest World Cup ever, his John Strong partnership, and future ambitions
The 2026 World Cup marked Stuart Holden’s third World Cup as an announcer for Fox Sports. He and John Strong became the first American broadcast duo to call three World Cup finals.
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Argentina’s Leandro Paredes suspended for 10 games for World Cup fight
Paredes’ teammate Nahuel Molina received a seven-match ban and must also pay a fine of $90,000, while Thiago Almada was suspended for one match and fined $30,000.
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Steve Davis on the World Cup’s North Texas legacy: ‘Celebrate the game, build confidence and community’
The speeches had been made, and the ribbon cut, at a new mini-pitch a mile from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Now the mayor and soccer officials were giving interviews. Steve Davis — a former Dallas Morning News sportswriter, longtime FC Dallas radio analyst, now Director of Legacy Programs for FIFA World Cup 26 Dallas […]
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What They’re Saying: Malik Tillman
“Personally, it didn’t affect me all that much. Balogun is an important player for us and for the team. Looking back, though, something like that shouldn’t happen. A red card is a red card and it should stand. I don’t know who exerted how much influence in the situation. But when there is a suspension following a red card, you shouldn’t go back afterward, reopen the discussion and change the decision.”
— U.S. midfielder Malik Tillman, reflecting on Folarin Balogun’s lifted red-card suspension at the 2026 World Cup in an interview with the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.
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Sandra Cress lifts the curtain on Atlanta’s World Cup 2026 operation
It’s a good bet that in the thousands of stories written about the 2026 World Cup, not one mentioned the stores selling branded merchandise inside a stadium. Or the importance of managing the movement of VIPs, so they did not interfere with players and coaches. Or how to handle FIFA’s requirement that the locker rooms […]
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Son at the double as MLS All-Stars beat Liga MX 4-3
Son Heung-min scored twice to lead the Major League Soccer All-Stars to a 4-3 win over their Liga MX counterparts on Wednesday in the MLS All-Star Game in Charlotte, North Carolina. Los Angeles FC’s South Korean star Son struck in the 20th and 23rd minutes to flip the script after Luis Gabriel Rey put the […]