There are sixteen left. The World Cup wanted by Infantino started with 48 teams: to date, thirty-two have returned home, including Germany, Holland and the very nice Curaçao and Cape Verde. The round of 16 starts today. With 15 days left until the final of the 19th of the MetLife in New York, the eight matches that will promote to the quarterfinals will take place over 4 days, from today to July 7th. There are four South Americans left, three North Americans, seven Europeans, two Africans. Asia has completely disappeared, having arrived with 19 nations for a regulation that should be rewritten if you consider that Europe had “just” 16.
Here is the scoreboard from top to bottom:
Paraguay-France
Canada-Morocco
Portugal-Spain
USA-Belgium
Brazil-Norway
Mexico-England
Argentina-Egypt
Switzerland-Colombia
The challenge calendar:
Canada-Morocco July 4th at 7pm
Paraguay-France 4 July at 11pm
Brazil-Norway 5 July at 10pm
Mexico-England 6 July at 2pm
Portugal-Spain 6 July at 9pm
USA-Belgium 7 July at 2
Argentina-Egypt 7 July at 6pm
Switzerland-Colombia 7 July at 10pm