The Journal’s sports columnist leads a roundtable with acclaimed WSJ soccer correspondents Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg on who’s going to win and who’s going to collapse.

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Mauricio Pochettino was blunt in his assessment of American soccer talent. “We are USA and competing against Belgium, Portugal," the U.S. coach said after a pair of March losses in friendlies. “I think for sure Belgium and Portugal have in the top 100 players few,

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The 2026 FIFA World Cup could very well see a first time winner as the tournament returns to North American soil for the first time since 1994. Of the Top 10 countries in FIFA's world rankings, there are four who have never climbed to the top of the international footballing mountain (Portugal,