The 2026 World Cup begins this Thursday (11), the biggest of all time with 48 participating teams. THE Sheet prepared services, statistical analyzes and broad coverage that brings together a team of correspondents and 16 specialized columnists.
Starting this Wednesday (10), the newspaper will publish a section dedicated to the main events related to the competition taking place in the United States, Mexico and Canada until July 19th.
Statistics for each of the 104 games and each of the teams will be available on FolhaStats, a project focused on analyzing data from matches, teams and players. Subscribers of Sheet They will have access to team and athlete comparators, as well as a top 10 that will show the best players in each field.
World champion in the 1970 World Cup, Tostão heads the list of sports columnists, which will be reinforced by names like Paulo Vinícius Coelho, PVC, journalist with seven World Cups under his belt; Bárbara Coelho, presenter at CazéTV; Lúcia Guimarães, journalist based in New York since 1985; Márcio Macedo, doctor in sociology, writer and professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo (FGV-SP); and Mauricio Stycer, journalist and TV critic.
The list will also include Idelber Avelar, co-host of the podcast “Meio de campo: o Futebol e sua História”; Hanuska Bertoia, editor of the First Page of Sheet; and Sandro Macedo, journalist.
Fábio Takahashi and Daniel Mariani will carry out analyzes based on sports statistics. And Tadeu Jungle will publish a column in image format every week.
A special CasaFolha column on the World Cup will also feature texts signed by different authors of the courses on the CasaFolha streaming platform. Sheet.
A team of special envoys from Sheet will follow the Brazilian and Argentine teams in the USA step by step. The newspaper’s correspondents based in Washington and New York will also participate in coverage, both of the games of the various teams and of the political and social environment surrounding the World Cup.
In addition to reports from each of the 104 matches, subscribers will have access to services to facilitate their daily football lives. Every morning, a summary of the round will be published, including what happened in the early morning games.
Each day, the Sheet It will also list the games, with the service where to watch them and which ones are most interesting. But those who can’t — or don’t want to — watch all the matches will have, every week, an indication of the unmissable games.
The Copa 2026 newsletter will bring together game information, coverage highlights and interactive sections. Editions will be sent daily in the morning.
Another product created in the context of the competition is Conecta Copa, a new competition on the company’s gaming platform. Sheet where the objective is to connect data on athletes, national teams and other curiosities about the World Cups in the shortest possible time.
