There is a photograph of SoFi Stadium taken from above at night that makes the building look like it landed from another planet. The translucent ETFE canopy, stretching across the roof like a frozen wave, catches the light from inside and glows against the Inglewood skyline. It cost over $5 billion to build — the […]
On 19 July 2026, the referee will blow the final whistle at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and one nation will be crowned world champions. That single moment — 80,000 people, one stadium, the entire sport watching — is the reason every match across the previous 39 days matters. I have been inside […]
Miami has always been a football city — just not in the way most Europeans would recognise. It is a city where Argentine taxi drivers debate Boca Juniors transfers, where Colombian restaurant owners close shop early for Copa Libertadores nights, and where the local MLS franchise, Inter Miami, became globally relevant the moment Lionel Messi […]
Two moments define Estadio Azteca more than any other stadium on earth. The first: Diego Maradona weaving past five England players on 22 June 1986 to score what is still called the greatest goal in World Cup history. The second: the same Maradona, four minutes earlier in the same match, punching the ball past Peter […]
