What is soccer culture in the United States? Many would argue we don’t really have it. Our league structure is a corporate spectacle, there’s a lack of quality at the national team level (on the men’s ...

AFCON is Africa's continental showcase and gives no guarantees to the favorites as big names like Mohamed Salah and Didier Drogba have not claimed the top honors at the tournament.

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The first documented mention of a soccer game in Louisiana is from January 25, 1859. But it is not in a local newspaper and pre-dates the era of radio or television. Instead, it is filed in a police ...

Sunday’s FIFA Club World Cup game at the Rose Bowl is a reminder that L.A. has nearly 125 years of soccer history. LA soccer's beginning: In 1902, when the Southern California Foot Ball League was ...

“Pele Signs With Cosmos: ‘Soccer Has Arrived’ Here With the same ebullience that has marked his play, Pele took up his new career yesterday as a New York Cosmos forward and soccer’s ambassador to the ...

Over the course of soccer history, there have been countless great goalscorers. Take Zlatan Ibrahimović, for example—a master of the unexpected, scoring everything from bicycle kicks to outrageous ...

While America excels in sports like baseball, basketball, and athletics, soccer has often struggled to gain the same level of attention, despite significant efforts to grow the game domestically.

As the United States prepares for the 2026 World Cup, it's hard to remember that professional soccer in this country once felt like an impossible dream. But one Kansas City businessman, better known ...

When you think of Brazil, a few things instantly come to mind: golden beaches, samba dancing, and the smooth rhythm of bossa nova music. But above all else, there’s one thing that truly defines the ...