{"id":6887,"date":"2026-07-18T23:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:35:17","slug":"frances-michael-olise-breaks-all-time-record-for-assists-in-single-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6887","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Michael Olise Breaks All-Time Record For Assists In Single World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>France attacking midfielder Michael Olise set the record for the most assists at a men&#8217;s FIFA World Cup on Saturday, when he and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 combined for a perfect one-two combination in the 67th minute of the 2026 World Cup bronze medal match against England. The assist was Olise&#8217;s seventh at the 2026 World Cup, which broke Pel\u00e9&#8217;s record from the 1970 World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Olise&#8217;s performance at the 2026 World Cup has been worthy of the Golden Ball. He played a huge part in helping France striker Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 reach the top of the leaderboard for the all-time World Cup goalscorer with 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The one downside for Olise has been his finishing in front of goal. Olise attempted 20 shots on goal and didn&#8217;t score once at the 2026 World Cup. France could have used that goalscoring boost in its 2-0 defeat to Spain in the semifinal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>France scored four times in the third-place match, but Olise missed three clear chances, in a 6-4 loss to England.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Olise&#8217;s lack of goalscoring isn&#8217;t what he&#8217;ll be remembered for at the 2026 World Cup. Instead, it will be the sublime service he provided throughout the tournament as he set a record that could stand the test of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY France attacking midfielder Michael Olise set the record for the most assists at a men&#8217;s FIFA World Cup on Saturday, when he and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 combined for a perfect one-two combination in the 67th minute of the 2026 World Cup bronze medal match against England. The assist was Olise&#8217;s seventh at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}