Uruguay midfielder Manuel Ugarte has vowed to come back stronger after suffering a serious left knee ligament injury that has left him at "rock bottom."

Follow all World Cup matches live today The final game of the 2026 World Cup group stage is complete, and Austria is moving on to the round of 32. Austria tied Algeria late on Saturday night, ensuring that both teams advanced out of the group stage with Austria as the second place team in Group J.

When two former World Cup champions clashed, AP photojournalist Ricardo Mazalan expected the Spain-Uruguay to be an intense, hard-fought contest — especially with Uruguay trying to

Spain's Nico Williams opened up after his injury, with his status for the 2026 World Cup knockout rounds now in serious doubt.

Spain's Group H title created a bizarre World Cup scenario where both Austria and Algeria may benefit from not winning their final group stage match.

Football Unites the World … in wishing it had paid more attention in applied mathematics class. Or so the Fifa slogan could have been expanded to say, given the mind-warping that arose from the formula for slicing the newly expanded 48-team tournament down to 32 sides for the first knockout round.