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Brazil vs Scotland FIFA World Cup 2026 Live Score: BRA take on SCO in Miami. FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Today Live Score: Brazil and Scotland will face off in a crucial encounter in Miami on Wednesday night with Round of 32 implications. Although Brazil are set to top the group if they draw or win against Scotland and Morocco fail to beat Haiti, the Scottish warriors will cement their place as the best third-placed team if they can pick up a point. If they beat Brazil, they are guaranteed to finish in the top two with 6 points. Carlo

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Will Neymar, Vinicius be abducted by aliens? Self-proclaimed psychics make such claims

Read 3 minutes24 June 2026 11:01 PM IST One of the weirdest predictions from the ongoing FIFA World Cup is not about the football game itself. It’s about an alien invasion. Yes, you heard that right. Self-proclaimed Brazilian influencer Vo Bahiana has claimed aliens will invade the planet during Brazil’s match against Scotland in Miami on Wednesday. ‘I want to tell you that I had a dream about aliens invading a soccer field in Miami. And I distinctly saw the players being carried away from the first ship that came. I was inside that ship. As the ship rose, the

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Gianni Infantino backs hydration break at World Cup: ‘purely a sporting matter’

Read 3 minutes24 Jun 2026 07:15 PM IST FIFA president Gianni Infantino has expressed his support for hydration breaks at the ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup, even as managers and supporters express displeasure over stops between matches. Infantino said football’s governing body was not making money from the break and that it was only for sporting reasons. “There is no additional revenue for FIFA, because all commercial contracts were signed in advance. Therefore, it is not a financial issue for us. For us, it is purely a matter of sport,” Infantino said in a statement on Wednesday. He added that

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How a 14-year-old boy’s speech inspired Japan’s soccer team at the World Cup

Read for 2 minutesJune 24, 2026 07:57 PM IST One of them gave a speech last week when 145 students and parents from East Tennessee Japanese School visited the World Cup training base in Nashville, Japan. Rui Nishizawa, 14, rewrote the manuscript several times and practiced reading it aloud. He also wrote a reminder to himself in the text: “Wait a minute.” Standing in front of the Samurai Blue players and coaching staff, he said, according to GG Press: “When we face obstacles while studying and living away from our country, the way you compete gives us the courage to

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France’s World Cup stars pay tribute to head coach Deschamps’ late mother

Read for 2 minutes24 Jun 2026 04:43 PM IST France will be without their head coach Didier Deschamps on the touchline for their final 2026 FIFA World Cup group game against Norway as the latter has returned home to attend the funeral of his mother, who died on Tuesday. The French Football Federation (FFF) made the announcement in a statement on their X account and later posted a video of the team and coaching staff paying tribute before starting their training session. “The national team coach is saddened to learn of his mother’s death this Tuesday morning. He will return

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‘VAR went for coffee’: Ghana’s Mifed Queiroz is denied penalty against England

Read for 2 minutes24 Jun 2026 03:27 PM IST The match between England and Ghana may have ended without a goal but not without events. England superstar Jude Bellingham was seen having words with Ghana’s coaching staff at the half-time whistle. Later in the match, Prince Adu was challenged by England defender Ezri Konsa which led to loud appeals from the Ghanaians for a penalty. Ghana head coach Carlos Queiroz said after the game that he was happy with the draw but when asked about the penalty appeal, he made little effort to mince words before cracking some jokes. “I’m

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‘Next question’: Ronaldo dodges Messi question, then says potential clash ‘would be fantastic’

Read for 2 minutesUpdated: June 24, 2026 12:30 PM IST He scored just twice, made history, yelled “I’m back” to the camera, and survived a dark week. Cristiano Ronaldo had every reason to be generous in the mixed zone at Houston Stadium on Tuesday night. Then someone mentioned Messi. A journalist began: “Lionel Messi scored 2 goals yesterday and Mbappe…” He didn’t finish the sentence. Ronaldo turned his head, said “go ahead” and invited the next journalist to speak. Messi’s name was in the air for maybe two seconds. The moment was captured, posted and traveled around the world within

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‘He never quit’: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Ronaldo retirement controversy after Portugal’s 5-0 win

Read 4 minutes24 Jun 2026 12:42 PM IST When the final whistle blew in Houston on Tuesday, Cristiano Ronaldo walked up to a nearby camera, looked directly into the lens and shouted two words: “I’m back.” Later, when asked about this in the mixed zone, he explained the reason. “So people don’t forget,” he said. Ronaldo had just scored twice to become the first player in history to score in six different World Cups, leading Portugal to a 5-0 rout of Uzbekistan, answering the biggest doubts of his career, at least for one night. He scored on six minutes, turning

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Vinicius-Ancelotti reunion gives Brazil skeptics reason to believe again at FIFA World Cup

Vinicius Jr. could not hide his joy after Brazil’s 3-0 win over Haiti on Saturday. To be honest, he tried a little. There was no restraint in his smile. In an all-cornered world lacking a moral compass, acting harshly can be precarious. Yet, the standard-bearer of football’s most decorated team does just that. In 2024, he broke down in tears at a press conference in Brazil. Not cursing but ranting. Testing the incessant racism to the brink of his endurance, Vinicius declared: “I’m losing the will to play football.” After two years, you’d be hard-pressed to believe he ever considered

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The Ghanaian witch doctor who cast a spell on Harry Kane at the World Cup

When Harry Kane missed a last-minute rebound deep into the stands A goalless draw against GhanaAn England fan turned to his Ghanaian neighbor and quipped: “Hey, the spell is working.” The Ghana supporter retorted: “No dude, he needs shooting practice.” The joke was about a claim made before the match by Nana Kwaku Bonsam – whose name translates as Devil of Wednesday – a Ghanaian witch doctor who told the Daily Star that he had cast black magic on Kane. He had one-of-a-kind credentials: in 2014, he claimed to have suffered a knee injury that threatened Cristiano Ronaldo’s participation in

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