A day four years in the making has finally arrived. For the first time since the 2014 World Cup, the U.S. men’s national team will play in the tournament. With a young, talented team, the USMNT’s game against Gareth Bale and Wales on Monday will set the tone for a challenging, but manageable, Group B.
Elsewhere in the group, England and Iran start things off at 8 a.m. ET. Senegal, without superstar Sadio Mane due to injury, faces the 2010 World Cup runner-up Netherlands.
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Final: England 6, Iran 2
England was dominant from start to finish in its first match of the 2022 World Cup.
Next up for England? That’d be the USMNT on Friday at 2 p.m. ET. Iran will look to bounce back against Wales in Friday’s early game, a 5 a.m. ET start.
World Cup soundtrack singer walks out on interview
One of the artists behind a theme song of the 2022 World Cup stopped a live TV interview and walked out after he was asked about the issue of Qatar’s human rights record.
During a broadcast on Israeli public television in Qatar, Colombian singer-songwriter Maluma left the set calling Israel’s KAN News chief international correspondent Moav Vardi “rude.”
In the taping, Vardi asked: “Don’t you have a problem with human rights violations in this country?”
