“There is no memory generator as powerful and captivating as the Football World Cup, the most followed sporting event on the planet, the most global,” says sports journalist Daniel Arribas, who will be responsible for sending readers of EL PAÍS the special bulletin about the 2026 World Cup every day. To receive it every morning during the competition, just sign up here.
This daily newsletter will include the best analysis, the day’s agenda, and a World Cup-themed correspondence between writers Juan Villoro and Martín Caparrós. Additionally, EL PAÍS launched months ago Ola Mundial, a weekly bulletin that follows the development of the World Cup in Mexico.
United States, Mexico, and Canada have been hosting the 23rd FIFA Football World Cup since June 11. And at EL PAÍS we have prepared an unprecedented deployment so that readers do not miss a detail. This newspaper will have six special correspondents at the World Cup event (five reporters from the Sports section: David Álvarez, Olivier Lorenzo, Ladislao J. Moñino, Juan I. Irigoyen, and Diego Fonseca; and one photographer, Alejandro Ruesga). The regular correspondents of this newspaper in the US, Jesús Sérvulo, Iker Seisdedos, and María Porcel, as well as the EL PAÍS newsroom in Mexico, led by deputy director Javier Lafuente and reporters Vera Garrido and Diego Mancera, will also report from across the Atlantic.
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In addition to live coverage of the matches, readers will be able to enjoy chronicles, analysis, interviews, videos, and more in-depth reports. This newspaper will feature its regular columnists — Jorge Valdano, Manuel Jabois, and Daniel Verdú — as well as guest contributors Mariona Caldentey, Esteban Granero, Marta San Miguel, and Paco Cerdà. And after each Spain match — hopefully eight — readers will be able to enjoy the video analysis of the game.
“The vast majority of us keep anecdotes, stories, and memories from a very early age. Who doesn’t remember their first World Cup? Who hasn’t ever done the math to calculate their age when another World Cup would arrive? Who hasn’t dreamed of lifting that trophy to the sky?” says Daniel Arribas. This bulletin invites EL PAÍS readers to follow all the details of this competition, which in a few years will be part of those memories. If you want to receive ‘World Cup 2026’ daily, sign up here.
