Heroics and heartache: looking back at the World Cup

July 23 : After nearly six weeks of heroics and heartache, thrills and spills, heat, ‌rain and rowing, the World Cup tournament is over, coolly confident Spain overcoming Argentina to claim soccer's top crown for the second time in their history. The tournament featured an expanded 48 teams and was hosted by three countries — the U.S., Canada and Mexico. That meant more matches, ‌more goals, and more records broken, as Argentina's Lionel Messi and France's Kylian Mbappe battled to be the World Cup's all-time top scorer — a consolation prize eventually won by Mbappe.Reuters had photographers in all 16 World Cup cities, as well as at team training camps and fanfests across the host countries and at the 104 matches over the tournament's 39 days. They delivered some 74,000 photos of the action