A Liverpool fan and an influencer explain what it’s like to be hired for a Truman Show-style experimentWhen Kevin Kotoko heard that he had been selected as one of Fox’s chief World Cup watchers he had no hesitation in accepting. What self-respecting football fan could turn down the opportunity to be paid $50,000 (£37,000) to take in all 104 games at this World Cup, after all?The only issues were that he would have to watch every match in a custom-built viewing cube in the heart of Times Square and let his employers know that he wouldn’t be coming in for work the next day. “I quit my job,” admits Kevin Akoto, a Liverpool fan who is from Florida and was working as a waiter in a restaurant. “I found out on Thursday that I had won the competition and so I told them on Friday that would be my last day!” Continue reading...
Tim Ream made history on Friday in more ways than one. The second the opening whistle blew in the United States’ match against Paraguay, the 38-year-old became the oldest player in the history of the US men’s national team to appear at a World Cup. Fifty-three minutes later, Ream made an entirely different type of history: he became the first player at a World Cup to benefit from the International Football Association Board’s “mistaken identity” rule change.
The 2026 men’s World Cup is official underway and the United States men’s soccer team kicks off its group stage slate on Friday night when they face Paraguay. The match gets underway at 9 p.m. ET at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The USMNT is +110 to win the match, a draw is +210, and […]
