Author: Rubaid Iftekhar Mahbub

To begin with, I was disappointed by Christopher Nolan’s previous film, Oppenheimer. Although it generated a remarkable box-office response for…

Spain have done it again — and this time, it feels less like a triumph than a statement of intent.…

For six unrelenting weeks, the planet organised itself around football. The 2026 FIFA World Cup — the first ever staged…

When Lionel Messi walked onto the Fanatics Fest stage in New York on Friday, phones outnumbered applauding hands. Everyone wanted…

Some stories are too perfect to be fiction. In the autumn of 2007, a 20-year-old Lionel Messi, already Barcelona’s brightest…

There are footballers. There are great footballers. And then, standing entirely alone in a category the sport had to invent…

Bangladeshi football fans are known the world over for their passion. Every four years, when the FIFA World Cup rolls…

The final whistle blew. The scoreboard read Germany 7, Curaçao 1. And yet, nobody went home feeling like losers. Across…

The World Cup had been ticking along for a few days. Mexico, Canada, and the USA, the three host nations,…

The world waited. And then, on a brilliant Thursday morning in Mexico City, it stopped waiting. Everything that came before…