🏆 World Cup, OneFootball Italy’s preview 🤓

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·11. Juni 2026

🏆 World Cup, OneFootball Italy’s preview 🤓

The World Cup is now just around the corner. With Mexico-South Africa tonight, the USA-Mexico-Canada World Cup gets underway.

Even without Italy, the appeal of the most prestigious tournament in the world is immense. There is huge curiosity surrounding what will already be a historic edition in its own right, because it will be the last one in which those two phenomena known as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will play.

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Making a prediction is extremely difficult, but here at the OneFootball Italy editorial team, we gave it a try.

✍️ Marco Alessandri

Winning national team 🏆: France;
Best player 🥇: Kylian Mbappé;
Breakout team 🤩: Turkey;
Biggest disappointment 👎: Argentina;
Top scorer 🎯: Kylian Mbappé.

✍️ Chiara Caravelli

Winning national team 🏆: Spain;
Best player 🥇: Lamine Yamal;
Breakout team 🤩: Morocco;
Biggest disappointment 👎: Germany;
Top scorer 🎯: Harry Kane;

✍️ Diego D'Avanzo

Winning national team 🏆: France;
Best player 🥇: Michael Olise;
Breakout team 🤩: Ecuador;
Biggest disappointment 👎: Brazil;
Top scorer 🎯: Harry Kane;

✍️ Vincenzo Visco

Winning national team 🏆: Argentina;
Best player 🥇: Lamine Yamal;
Breakout team 🤩: Norway;
Biggest disappointment 👎: Brazil;
Top scorer 🎯: Harry Kane;

✍️ Emanuele Garbato

Winning national team 🏆: Spain;
Best player 🥇: Lamine Yamal;
Breakout team 🤩: Netherlands;
Biggest disappointment 👎: Germany;
Top scorer 🎯: Lautaro Martinez.

✍️ Alessio d'Errico

Winning national team 🏆: France;
Best player 🥇: Kylian Mbappé;
Breakout team 🤩: Netherlands;
Biggest disappointment 👎: Argentina;
Top scorer 🎯: Harry Kane.

✍️ Alessandro De Felice

Winning national team 🏆: France;
Best player 🥇: Michael Olise;
Breakout team 🤩: Bosnia;
Biggest disappointment 👎: Argentina;
Top scorer 🎯: Vinicius;

🔥 OF editorial team predictions

France are the favorites, with as many as four votes, while Spain will try to upset the odds and win the World Cup, taking the crown from Argentina.

All eyes are on Kylian Mbappé, Lamine Yamal and Michael Olise for the World Cup MVP award, while when it comes to the top scorer, Harry Kane is the main favorite. But keep an eye on Lautaro Martinez, who, according to Emanuele Garbato, could be the tournament’s striker of the tournament after winning the top scorer award in the last Serie A season.

There are plenty of teams in the running for the World Cup surprise package award, with the Netherlands leading the way according to our editorial team, and Bosnia, Morocco, Norway and Turkey among the possible surprises.

The disappointment? For Marco Alessandri, Alessandro De Felice and Alessio D'Errico, it will be reigning champions Argentina, but there are also those who have some doubts about Carlo Ancelotti’s Brazil.

What about you? Write your predictions in the comments!

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.

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