Sharp or Square - FIFA World Cup 2026 Betting Preview
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The wait is over! FIFA World Cup 2026 begins today as the world's top soccer players assemble for the pomp and pageantry of the globe's preeminent sporting event. Spread across North American host sites from coast-to-coast, fans and bettors alike couldn't be more excited. Here to break down all the World Cup action are betting expert Chad Millman and professional gambler Simon Hunter, who welcome soccer expert Anthony Dabbundo of The Ringer. Together they give their top betting picks and predictions for this five-week tournament, including best bets for the Group Stage, Golden Boot, and U.S. Men's National Team. Will Spain or England win it all? Could Argentina or France upset the favorites? And what can we expect from superstars like Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane, Mikel Oyarzabal, and Erling Haaland? Does Lionel Messi have enough left in the tank to make a run to the Final? Or will Cristiano Ronaldo remind us all why he's one of the greatest soccer players who has ever lived? All these questions answered and more as FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off today! #Volume
0:03:00 - START
0:19:00 - TOP WORLD CUP CONTENDERS
0:40:00 - U.S. MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM PREVIEW
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by Hard Rock Fat. |
| 0:09.3 | We are part of the volume podcast network. |
| 0:12.1 | This is the show that makes the square sharper and makes the wise guys. |
| 0:15.0 | Pay attention. |
| 0:16.2 | I am Chad Milman. |
| 0:17.5 | I am joined as always by my co-host, my DFF, my companion, my confidre, professional better. |
| 0:23.4 | Simon Hunter. |
| 0:24.9 | Hello, Simon. |
| 0:26.6 | Chad, how we doing? |
| 0:29.2 | I mean, on a personal level, I feel great. |
| 0:33.2 | The weather's beautiful. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm loving the NBA playoffs. |
| 0:36.7 | My kids graduated from Drexel later this week. |
| 0:41.3 | I also feel like we as a society, and specifically in the world that we both live in, sports and sports betting, it is a wash in cynicism, greed, corrupt behavior, inconsistent behavior at every level. |
| 1:03.9 | We're a part of it. College football is a part of it. We're going to talk about the World Cup |
| 1:08.9 | today with our good friend Anthony Dubundo. The World |
| 1:11.7 | Cup is and always has been ground zero for corrupt, greed, hypocritical, shove it in the fans' face. |
| 1:25.1 | We don't care how much we're going to gouge you for behavior and we're just |
| 1:32.2 | in a we're we're a washing bad actors yeah it doesn't the the world cup doesn't have the vibe i |
| 1:41.5 | definitely thought i was going to have i thought by the time june came around amer would kind of be more on board and you would kind of see stuff everywhere, especially I live in a host city, a Philly. Yeah. It is not, there is no needle move. Nothing fails change at all. We've talked a little bit about Chad. Like I'm trying to go to a game at the link cheapest seats are 400 per seat that's |
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