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  Let me start with something that has never happened before in the history of football. Ten African teams at a single World Cup. Not five. Not six. Ten. For anyone who has watched African football through the decades when the continent was allocated three or four slots at a tournament featuring thirty two teams this number feels genuinely historic. FIFA's expansion to forty eight teams has given Africa the representation that the quality of football on this continent has long deserved. I am writing this from Dar es Salaam where football is not a hobby. It is infrastructure. The cafes with televisions mounted too high on the wall. The plastic chairs arranged in rows that were not there yesterday. The generator humming outside. The crowd that doubles in size between kickoff and the first goal. The World Cup starts June 11 2026 across the United States, Canada and Mexico. African teams are in it. All ten of them. And if you are reading this from anywhere in East or Southern Afri...

  I want to start with something honest. I have watched football from some of the most interesting places on this continent. Nairobi. Lusaka. Dar es Salaam. Moving between countries the way I do means you learn very quickly that football in Africa is not just a sport. It is infrastructure. It is community. It is the thing that makes a strange city feel familiar within twenty minutes of arriving. You walk into any town in East Africa during a major tournament and you will find it. The cafe with the television mounted too high on the wall. The plastic chairs arranged in rows that were not there yesterday. The generator humming outside because the power went out at the worst possible moment. The crowd that has somehow doubled in size since kickoff. Everyone watching. Everyone invested. Everyone arguing. That is Africa watching football. And the World Cup is the biggest version of that experience that exists. FIFA World Cup 2026 is hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico. It...