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The Athletic has live coverage of Ecuador vs Germany at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. How can it be that the unlikely challenger in the battle for the illustrious Golden Boot as top goalscorer at this World Cup did not cut it in the Premier League? After two games each, only Lionel Messi (five goals), Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland (four each) have done better than Deniz Undav’s tally of three for Germany……Continue reading…
By Andy Naylor
Source: NY Times
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A periodic world cup or world championship usually takes the form of a knockout tournament (possibly with an initial group stage). This is held over a number of days or weeks, with the entrants eventually being whittled down to two, and the tournament culminating in a world cup final. The winner(s) take the title of World Champion(s) and hold it until the next time the event is held (usually one, two, or four years later).
This format is most common in team sports. In individual sports however, holding the title can vary in terms of duration, as it is dependent on the timing of the next scheduled individual contest between the defending champion and a challenger.
A contrasting concept, popular in individual sports, is a year-long competition with several meetings over its course. In this format, victory at an individual meeting earns a number of points, and, usually, a number of positions below also score points inversely related to their position.
Contestants accumulate a number of points over the course of the year (often “season”) and their cumulative total after all meetings have been concluded determines the World Champion or, simply, World Cup winner. The winner is then considered the champion until the next World Cup.
A world cup is generally, though not always, considered the premier competition in its sport, with the victor attaining the highest honour in that sport and being able to lay claim to the title of their sport’s best.
In some sports, however, the Olympic title carries at least as much prestige, while other sports such as diving and artistic gymnastics differentiate between their premier competitions, such as World Championships and Olympic Games, and their “World Cup”, which is organized as a smaller scale but high-level showcase event with small elite fields.
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