World Cup Favorite Brazil Loses Veteran Leader Dani Alves To Knee Injury
Brazil, a 4-1 favorite for the World Cup, has been dealt a significant injury blow with its opening match against Switzerland only 37 days away.
Brazil, a 4-1 favorite for the World Cup, has been dealt a significant injury blow with its opening match against Switzerland only 37 days away.
The U.S., Canada and Mexico have joined together to bid for the right to host the 2026 World Cup. The only opposition is a bid from Morocco (outlined here), which has picked up a surprising amount of backers, from large portions of Africa to European nations like France and Germany. But the U.S. 2026 World Cup bid received an odd boost on Thursday.
It’s official. Everyone hoping for a Zlatan Ibrahimovic World Cup can calm down now. The swaggering Swede announced on Thursday morning he will indeed be in Russia for this summer’s tournament.
But he won’t be playing with Sweden — he’ll be playing for Team Zlatan.
If you think you know who will win the World Cup, then put your money where your mouth is. World Cup futures odds are widely available, and the top value bets feature the World Cup favorites with a few surprising teams sprinkled in.
We looked at the most recent odds published by Bovada, and 17 of the World Cup's 32 teams are listed at 100 to 1 or better. We assigned a value rating of bad, fair, good or great to each of those teams.
Germany +450: Good Value
For me, the life cycle of your relationship with fashion goes something like this: When you’re young, you wear whatever is singularly most pleasing to yourself (train shirt, train pants, train socks, BOOM). You then enter a more fashionable phase wherein you still only rely on your own sense of what’s cool (this is when you get your first track suit).
If you’re like me, a Nike-head who refuses to wear cleats that aren’t primarily black or white, you’re gonna love this. Today, Nike unveiled its range of cleats (Mercurial, Hypervenom, Tiempo, Magista) for the 2018 World Cup, called the “Just Do It” pack. They’ll be available to the public on May 14, and they’re exceptionally clean.
You (I) are (am) looking for a team to support during the 2018 FIFA Men's World Cup in Russia. Well, friend, you have come to the right place. We here at The18 have a special formula that allows us to pick the perfect team for each type of fan. There's a team for every type of fan, and a type of fan for every team. So, read on, and find your soccer soulmate.
Germany
Every four years, Mexican fans yearn for the Mexico World Cup wins to come. The whole nation marches into the world's greatest tournament with high hopes and spirits dreaming of the unforgettable moments their national team will gift them.
Believe it or not, Mexico is one of the countries with the richest World Cup histories, one that will continue this summer.
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t really believe Alexi Lalas when he appeared on my television set and told me that Fox was "the home for all things El Tri this summer." My sneaking suspicion was confirmed a couple weeks ago when it was announced that the Fox commentating team of Jorge Perez-Navarro and Mariano Trujillo, the guys who’ll almost certainly be calling the Mexico games, wouldn’t even be sent to Russia. They’ll be calling games from a darkened room in Los Angeles.