Six times in a row. That’s how many consecutive times Mexico has been eliminated in the Round of 16 at the World Cup. The task does not get any easier this time around as not only is Mexico coming off a heavy defeat at the hands of Sweden in their final group stage game but […]

One of the biggest criticisms about FOX Sports' coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is that the vast majority of announcers and co-commentators were calling games off a monitor from a studio in Los Angeles, over six thousand miles away from the Russian capital. But in positive news, FOX Sports has decided to fly […]

Top 5 Group Stage Goals of the 2018 World Cup For the opening stages of the World Cup in Russia, we had long range screamers, terrific team goals, free kicks, and game winners galore. Let's just hope the knockout rounds are as exciting. Here are the top 5 goals thus far. 5. Ahmed Musa vs. […]

Mexico’s second round victory over Korea drew a combined 11.037 million viewers to FOX and Telemundo, making it the most-watched match of the World Cup thus far. It was also Telemundo’s most-watched match with 6.6 million viewers tuning in to their coverage. Germany’s comeback victory over Sweden surpassed FOX’s previous high for viewership, drawing 5.397 […]

With the vast majority of World Cup games kicking off during office hours in the United States, the tournament has surpassed more than 1 billion minutes livestreamed via Telemundo Deportes' streaming through June 25. To date, the tournament has reached 32 million uniques, generating 73.8 million livestreams, and 1.06 billion total minutes viewed. Streaming across […]

Telemundo has announced the lineup of commentators for the Round of 16 games in the World Cup. Beginning with the exciting first day on Saturday featuring France versus Argentina followed by Portugal against Uruguay, Telemundo will have Andrés Cantor and Manuel Sol calling the first game and then Sammy Sadovnik and Eduardo Biscayart on the […]

FOX Sports has announced their lineup of commentators for the Round of 16 games in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. John Strong and JP Dellacamera will continue to call games from Russia alongside co-commentators Stuart Holden and Tony Meola, while Derek Rae and Aly Wagner have been flown to Russia to announce their first games […]

​After religiously following the last three World Cups, I must admit that even a week before this year’s tournament I couldn’t have been less interested. The United States was out and, apparently, so was I. Honestly, this wasn’t a sentiment I expected, but I also hadn’t expected the US men’s team to be absent. The […]

Spain will take on Russia in Moscow this weekend for a place in the last eight of the World Cup and they will do so as strong favorites. However to progress they will have to overcome one or two demons from an international history that includes a long sequence of harrowing defeats against the host […]

FOX Sports has leapt ahead of Telemundo in generating more TV viewers for World Cup games on English-language television compared to Spanish-language TV for the first 11 match days. The World Cup games on FOX and FS1 are averaging 2,208,563 viewers, while Telemundo's average is 2,048,063. Compared to the first five match days of Russia […]

The attention of the soccer world is still firmly fixed upon the World Cup in Russia. For the powerhouses of club soccer, the quadrennial tournament is the only time that it is not business as usual. But that ‘business’ does not altogether come to a halt. Fresh from signing lucrative new broadcasting deals with BT, […]

Messi and Ronaldo both found a way to advance into the knockout stage of the World Cup. Both captaining Argentina and Portugal to finish second in their group. One captain stepped up to push his team forward while the other faltered. Ronaldo The reigning European champions stumbled their way to a 1-1 draw against Iran. […]

This was the title I was initially going to use when writing about Joachim Loew’s strangely sentimental picks to his 23 man squad for Germany. I was to look back to 2014, when, in a sweet nod to Germany fans, Loew brought Lukas Podolski and Miroslave Klose to Brazil. Both were driving forces to my […]

Croatia somehow entered the 2018 World Cup in Russia under the radar After all, they were placed in Group D alongside Leo Messi’s Argentina, an exciting Nigeria squad, and the 2016 Euro Cinderella team, Iceland. Nevertheless, the Croatians have managed to be one of the standout teams of the World Cup so far. Led by […]

England will go into their final group game with their qualification for the next round already assured. Thursday's game against Group G’s top seed Belgium will now be one to determine who will take the top spot. The game will offer the unusual opportunity for the Three Lions to rotate their first 11, giving some […]