The eighth of our extracts from The Soccer 100 looks at the King, the first (and still only) man to win three World Cups as a ...

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team looks at the record holders in World Cup history ahead of the 2026 tournament ...

The Independent has put together a list of the 50 greatest names in World Cup history, based exclusively on their ...

From Messi's glory in 2022 to Maradona's incredible 1986, Michael Cox assesses the best individual performances in World Cup victories ...

The World Cup is the pinnacle of football – a tournament that has given all-time legends including Pele, Diego Maradona and ...

Just as Diego Maradona would single-handedly win the World Cup for Argentina in 1986, Garrincha had achieved that very feat for Brazil 24 years earlier.

From Brazil to Argentina, several soccer giants have chased immortality on the FIFA World Cup stage. But repeating as ...

Pele, Maradona or Messi at No 1? The 50 greatest players in World Cup history - WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN: With two weeks until the ...

The World Cup has had no shortage of iconic moments across nearly 100 years of history. Every four years, billions of fans ...

As the countdown to the 2026 World Cup (June 11–July 19) begins, we revisit the iconic players whose brilliance and ...

Rumours had suggested William Saliba could be doubtful for France's World Cup campaign, but Didier Deschamps has rejected ...

Certain players always had the odds stacked against them. Others were victims of circumstance.