The pre-match story

When Memory Meets Hunger in Dallas

In 2002, a man named Hakan Şükür scored eleven seconds into a World Cup match. Twenty-four years later, Türkiye still carries that lightning-strike moment like a talisman. Now, in Dallas, they meet Paraguay—a nation that has never forgotten its own quarter-final dream from 2010, a team still hungry for a taste of what glory feels like.