World Cup 2026: ignite the engine nss sports’ final editorial of 2025, heading toward the 2026 World Cup

170 days before the official start of the 2026 World Cup, nss sports presents World Cup 2026: Ignite the Engine, an editorial that blends the aesthetics of some of the most iconic national team jerseys of all time with car interiors and silhouettes. A metaphorical take revolving around the claim ignite the engine, meaning to fire up the engines of excitement while waiting for what is set to become the most monumental sporting event in the history of football.

We shot World Cup 2026: Ignite the Engine in England, not by chance: as if the upcoming World Cup represented a sort of passing of the torch, from a country that has always told its story—legitimizing its own DNA—as the home of football, to another country (or rather, a continent) that will have to take a fundamental step in order to definitively establish itself as a place where football is a credible story, made of values and capable of becoming one with people and their culture.

The United States, Canada, and Mexico are also known for their multiculturalism: for this reason, the consolidation of an increasingly authentic football culture could only become a unifying element among the many cultures that characterize the continent. The choice of jerseys featured in the shoot, supplied exclusively by The Soccer Archive, is no coincidence: namely, the England shirt in reference to the previously mentioned narrative; and the Nigeria shirt, with the Super Eagles being one of the standout teams of the Africa Cup of Nations currently underway—a competition that is, in fact, firing up the engines and easing the wait for the 2026 World Cup.

And then Norway, with Haaland’s name on the back, which will see Erling—son of Alf-Inge Haaland—as the main protagonist; Brazil, at Carlo Ancelotti’s debut in a major competition at the helm of the Seleção; and the Netherlands, in search of consecration and featuring many players capable of expressing their own personal style, starting with Memphis Depay.