Young men play football at a deteriorated sports facility in Havana, Cuba, on June 4, 2026. Football has increasingly supplanted Cuba's traditional passion for baseball, even as the island faces a shortage of proper facilities and deteriorating stadiums. Cuba's only World Cup appearance came in France 1938, where the team reached the quarterfinals. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Young men play football at a deteriorated sports facility in Havana, Cuba, on June 4, 2026. Football has increasingly supplanted Cuba's traditional passion for baseball, even as the island faces a shortage of proper facilities and deteriorating stadiums. Cuba's only World Cup appearance came in France 1938, where the team reached the quarterfinals. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Teenagers play football at a deteriorated sports facility in Havana, Cuba, on June 4, 2026. Football has increasingly supplanted Cuba's traditional passion for baseball, even as the island faces a shortage of proper facilities and deteriorating stadiums. Cuba's only World Cup appearance came in France 1938, where the team reached the quarterfinals. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Teenagers play football at a deteriorated sports facility in Havana, Cuba, on June 4, 2026. Football has increasingly supplanted Cuba's traditional passion for baseball, even as the island faces a shortage of proper facilities and deteriorating stadiums. Cuba's only World Cup appearance came in France 1938, where the team reached the quarterfinals. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Teenagers play football at a deteriorated sports facility in Havana, Cuba, on June 4, 2026. Football has increasingly supplanted Cuba's traditional passion for baseball, even as the island faces a shortage of proper facilities and deteriorating stadiums. Cuba's only World Cup appearance came in France 1938, where the team reached the quarterfinals. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Teenagers play football at a deteriorated sports facility in Havana, Cuba, on June 4, 2026. Football has increasingly supplanted Cuba's traditional passion for baseball, even as the island faces a shortage of proper facilities and deteriorating stadiums. Cuba's only World Cup appearance came in France 1938, where the team reached the quarterfinals. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Teenagers play football inside a deteriorated sports facility in Havana on June 4, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Bystanders observe unofficial sports jerseys from various national football teams participating in the upcoming FIFA World Cup, displayed for sale at an informal street stall in the historic center of Mexico City on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP via Getty Images)