Hans-Joachim Eckert, right, who heads the adjudicatory arm of FIFA’s ethics committee, released his 42-page summary after reviewing the work of Michael J. Garcia, left, the head of the investigatory chamber of the committee.
A summary of an investigation found potential ethics violations but said they were far from requiring a new bidding process. The conclusions were immediately contested.
Somewhere, Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president, is having a good laugh over FIFA’s ethics summary report, which has already been attacked by the inquiry’s main investigator.
A result of exporting so many players — more than 2,700 Argentines now play in foreign leagues — is that club soccer in the South American nation is blighted by a lack of continuity.
Because it sought to delay the championship, fearing a spread of Ebola, Morocco was barred from the 2015 Cup, another disruption to soccer related to the outbreak.
Hans-Joachim Eckert, the German judge reviewing a report on the investigation into FIFA’s awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, will release a summary of his findings on Thursday.
Jimmy Greaves is the latest player from England’s 1966 World Cup-winning team to put his medal up for auction.
The World Cup champion Germany said it would host the United States in a June match.
Ched Evans of Wales, who spent two years in prison for rape, will resume training at his former club in England, Sheffield United.
Coach Jurgen Klinsmann cast a wide net while retooling the national men’s soccer team roster after the World Cup over the summer.
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.
