World Cup group stage play continues on Saturday, and new users can claim the Kalshi referral code CBSSPORTS to get a $15 bonus after making $10 worth of trades. A shot at a first group-stage win is on the line when Ecuador battles Curacao at 8 p.

Amad Diallo scored the winning goal for Ivory Coast in the 90th minute in a 1-0 win over Ecuador in Philadelphia.

When Ecuadorian soccer content creator Leandro de Vera, aka DonFutbol, tied his country’s flag around the Rocky statue’s neck at the top of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s steps, he was unaware of the butterfly effect he had set in motion.

The assumption is that Germany will top the final standings, and both Côte d’Ivoire and Ecuador will beat lowly Curaçao, pitting them against each other for the second automatic knockout berth. It might not play out like that,

Ecuador manager Sebastian Beccacece has dropped a lineup bombshell for La Tri's 2026 World Cup Group E opener against Ivory Coast, leaving star left-back Pervis Estupinan and teenage phenom Kendry Paez out of the starting eleven.