Soccer

FIFA suspended Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales on Sunday over his refusal to resign for an unwanted kiss.

The English Women’s World Cup team was branded as being too full of “blonde, blue eyed” players in the legacy media.

NFL analyst Ross Tucker was blasted on social media for saying the NFL needed to save children of the world from the false belief that soccer is better than football.

Thousands of New York City parents are “dismayed” as Mayor Eric Adams (D) begins building a migrant camp atop four soccer fields where their children play in leagues and recreationally.

Evangelist Franklin Graham on Monday reacted to the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s defeat.

Former President Donald Trump roasted U.S. women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe in the wake of her missing the penalty shot that knocked Team USA from the World Cup.

The international career of Megan Rapinoe ended in a dramatic penalty shoot-out against Sweden on Sunday with her failed kick at goal helping to send the U.S.A. team crashing out of the World Cup underway in New Zealand and Australia.

A majority of the U.S. Women’s National Team was silent for the second time during the national anthem at their World Cup.

According to a report from Front Office Sports, Saudi soccer club Al-Hilal has offered French soccer sensation Kylian Mbappe a whopping $1.1 billion to play only one year for the Saudi squad.

ESPN soccer analyst Shaka Hislop collapsed on camera during a live broadcast on Sunday.

Thalia Chaverria, a women’s soccer player for New Mexico State University, has died after being found unresponsive on Monday. She was 20 years old.

Police are working to identify several children a 63-year-old man is accused of drugging and raping in Franklin, Tennessee.

Karolis Chvedukas, a Lithuanian soccer star who played for Marijampolė City, died “unexpectedly” at the young age of 32, a report says.

Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi, whose team is the reigning FIFA World Cup champion, played an exhibition match alongside his team in Beijing, China, on Friday – genocidal dictator Xi Jinping’s 70th birthday.

A VT school district has agreed to pay $125,000 to a family that district officials punished over their criticism of a transgender athlete.

A group of older men, some retired, from the U.K. totally destroyed a team of former U.S. women’s soccer players 12-0 at an independent soccer tournament in North Carolina on Thursday.

Slow ticket sales for soccer’s upcoming Women’s World Cup in co-host New Zealand are worrying organisers with Kiwis swerving the opportunity of seeing all pool games of defending champions the United States being played on local soil.

A 37-year-old coach in Georgia has been accused of molesting a child under 10-years-old on April 7, 2021.

Five people went to the hospital and one went to jail after a melee broke out at a high school soccer game in Virginia Monday night.

A 12-year-old girl was saved by a teammate’s mother after falling to the ground with a sudden cardiac arrest during soccer practice.

A Polish soccer star denies allegations that he gave a crowd in Israel the Nazi “Seig Heil” salute after scoring a goal in a recent match.

Abdul Rasheed Babatunde Agbaje, a 21-year-old college athlete, died suddenly on Monday of cardiac arrest during a soccer game in Macon, GA.

The women of English soccer will no longer wear white shorts as concerns grow that white shorts could become problematic when the players are on their menstrual cycle.

The National Women’s Soccer League thinks that the new version of the FIFA 23 video game portrays “people of color” offensively.

BBC presenter Emma Jones is a formidable force when discussing soccer, and, as it turns out, she’s a formidable force when dealing with Twitter trolls as well.

Argentine goalkeeper Leandro Requena appears to be set to have made the longest goal in soccer history after Saturday’s game in Chile.

The Utah Royals women’s pro soccer team have announced that it will pay for all out-of-state abortions for team members and staffers.

An enraged soccer fan rushed out onto the field and took a swipe at Sevilla goalkeeper Marko Dmitrović in an act that shocked the stadium.

A soccer referee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) found himself under attack over the weekend after more than a dozen members of a women’s soccer team chased and beat him following a controversial call.

Christian Atsu, the Ghana international forward who played for Premier League clubs Chelsea and Newcastle, has died in the earthquake in Turkey. He was 31.

Australian parents of grade school-aged children were informed that their children are required to wear LGBTQ+ pride shirts if they wanted to compete in an A-League half-time game, the Daily Mail reported. 

Woke U.S. women’s soccer star Alex Morgan has now threatened to boycott states that ban biological males from competing alongside women. 

Belgian soccer goalie Arne Espeel collapsed on the field Saturday and died after stopping a penalty kick. He was only 25.

Reports circulating this week that Visit Saudi, the official tourism board of Saudi Arabia, would sponsor the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup prompted an eruption of outrage in the soccer world and a loud protest on Wednesday by host nations Australia and New Zealand that they were not involved in the approval process.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82.

An Australian A-League soccer game erupted in chaos when fans flooded the field and attacked players with a metal bucket and road flares.