If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The World Cup may be over but the merch and apparel rollout continues this month with the launch of a limited-edition pair of soccer cleats from French star and 2026 Golden Boot Award winner, Kylian
Goya-nominated actress Zoe Bonafonte (“El 47”) will play Spain’s first female soccer player, Ana “Nita” Carmona Ruiz, in “Veleta,” a Spain-Argentina co-production directed and co-written by Paco Torres (“The Magic of Hope”) and now shooting in Andalusia. Goya winner Dani Rovira and “Vikings” actor Moe Dunford also star. Amaya Muruzábal, creator of “Hernán” and showrunner
A Walmart Supercenter is a fluorescent palace of American consumption. For American shoppers, it’s a utilitarian one-stop shop where groceries, TVs, tires and just about everything else are under one huge roof. However, for some international World Cup fans, it is a viral tourist sensation. Many fans decided to visit Walmart during their stay in
How do you measure whether an AI is really good at predicting the future? The CTO of startup Obside recently emailed me with a fascinating real-world benchmark. Instead of giving the AI models another standardized test, Obside had ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Kimi bet on World Cup matches using live odds from
I’m not the biggest World Cup fan, so when the first general admission tickets went on sale earlier this year, it didn’t occur to me to check the prices for an individual match. World Cup tickets reportedly hit the market at a price seven times higher than expected, with one consumer telling Business Insider that
The Internet can’t get enough of Erling Haaland. The 6-foot-5, 25-year-old man The Norwegian striker has amassed more than 11 million followers on Instagram since Sunday, when he scored two goals to secure Norway’s victory against Brazil in the World Cup. While many of his new followers are clearly there for the football, others may
