GOOOAL! A World Cup Journalist Panel with Matt Pentz
The 2026 World Cup is coming soon to a stadium near you, and Folio is bringing together four of the best soccer journalists around to break it all down!
Matt Pentz is a contributor for The Athletic who covers soccer. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, ESPN, Howler Magazine, and VICE. He is the author of The Sound and the Glory: How the Seattle Sounders Showed Major League Soccer How to Win Over America, published by ECW Press in March 2019, which chronicles the Sounders’ first MLS Cup title run.Â
Paul Tenorio is a senior writer for The Athletic who has covered American and global soccer since 2007. His work has also appeared in The Washington Post, the Orlando Sentinel, FourFourTwo, and ESPN. He is the author The Messi Effect, which goes behind the scenes of Messi’s arrival in Miami and into the MLS boardroom as the league navigates a fast-evolving American soccer landscape.Â
Jon Arnold is the national soccer writer for USA Today and one of the most widely recognized experts on soccer across Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, previously best known for his newsletter Getting CONCACAFed.Â
Pablo Iglesias Maurer is a soccer reporter for The Guardian, an award-winning writer and photographer whose work focuses on the history and culture of the game in North America, with photography featured in National Geographic and Smithsonian Magazine.
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