
Teenagers men play football on a wet street using the metal frame of a school desk as a makeshift goal, 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)


