The expanded 2026 World Cup will be the biggest in history featuring 48 countries – up from 32 – battling for soccer's ultimate prize in North America.

Long after President Donald Trump and the Village People stopped dancing, as glitz subsided and most of the soccer world slept, more than a dozen FIFA executives huddled inside the Kennedy Center’s Ri...

But we now mostly know the group alignments, the potential paths and the storylines that are likely to captivate us for more than a month next summer.