Wrestling With a Soccer Dream
By YAEL AVERBUCH
Yael Averbuch describes her bittersweet return to the United States after playing for a club in Cyprus.
Thursday’s game could be Thierry Henry’s last for the Red Bulls, if the team loses and he decides not to extend his contract with Major League Soccer.
Yael Averbuch describes her bittersweet return to the United States after playing for a club in Cyprus.
Mario Balotelli led Liverpool past Swansea City, 2-1, and Chelsea edged fourth-tier Shrewsbury Town by the same score.
As Major League Soccer begins its postseason, it is also readying for labor talks in which a key topic will be player salaries, which lag far behind those in the major professional sports leagues.
The club that ruled English soccer decades ago is now on its third manager of the young season as it tries to turn things around under an owner known for firing coaches.
Mr. Meyiwa, the goalkeeper and captain of the national team, was killed during a robbery attempt at the home of his girlfriend near Johannesburg.
Abby Wambach scored four goals as the World Cup-bound United States defeated Costa Rica, 6-0, in Chester, Pa., for the team’s fifth Concacaf Women’s Championship title.
The league said a renamed and rebranded team in Los Angeles would return under new ownership in 2017.
Louis Van Gaal's club showing some spirit in tough 1-1 fight with Jose Mourinho's Chelsea.
It was not simply that Real Madrid, Europe's reigning champion, outplayed its Catalan foe in the Bernabéu; it was the manner of the victory.
Through a program called Aspire Football Dreams, the Qataris had scouted hundreds of thousands of young African players; needing a place where the best youths could play professionally, they found it in a team in a small Belgian town.
Soccer’s governing body has taken a misguided approach to concussions in large part because of the sport’s substitution rules, which allow for only three replacements per game.
The 2014 World Cup was a runaway success, but significant issues like match fixing, player safety and the Cup bidding process need to be confronted.
Its team suffered a humiliating semifinal defeat, but Brazil is taking comfort in its success as host of the World Cup and in its archrival Argentina’s loss in the final.
The huge exposure Univision received from the World Cup showed how the growth of America’s Hispanic population has reshaped the media landscape.
A collection of our interactives and analysis.
To say goodbye to the 2014 World Cup, we’ve put together a special round of Spot the Ball, featuring five views of that tournament-winning goal by Germany. See if you can guess where the ball went.
Soccer fans in Berlin and Buenos Aires during the final match of the World Cup.
A panoramic view of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Mauricio Lima went to remote villages, up the river and even to a prison, to document his countrymen’s passion for the sport, as well as their lives, during the World Cup.