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Nigerian soccer fans reacted to their team’s failure to reach the World Cup on Tuesday by storming the field and wrecking property before being tear-gassed by police.

The U.S. Soccer Federation has settled a lawsuit with the United States Women’s National (Soccer) Team over discrimination claims.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, has died. He was 60.

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA says Iraq is not safe enough to host World Cup qualifying games against Iran and Bahrain.

Longshot 2020 presidential candidate Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) said Saturday that he will ask U.S. Women’s National Soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe to serve as Secretary of State if he is elected to the White House.

Megan Rapinoe is trashing the country she represents, wasting a huge opportunity to inspire young soccer fans, especially girls.

After the United States Women’s National Team beat Holland to win the World Cup on Sunday, ESPN ran a story with the headline: “USWNT star Megan Rapinoe makes loud statement to silence critics.”

Earlier this week, Megan Rapinoe rather directly announced that she will not visit the White House after the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) completes their World Cup run. However, the U.S. soccer star and co-captain apparently has no problem accepting an invite from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tour Capitol Hill.

U.S. Women’s soccer player Ali Krieger went on the attack against President Donald Trump after his criticism of team captain Meghan Rapinoe.

“I am a big fan of the American Team, and Women’s Soccer, but Megan should WIN first before she TALKS!” Trump wrote. “Finish the job!”

U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) star and co-captain Megan Rapinoe, says she’s “not going to the f*ck*ng White House” if her team wins the World Cup.

REIMS, France (AP) — Megan Rapinoe converted a pair of penalty kicks and the United States set up a much-anticipated quarterfinal meeting with host France at the Women’s World Cup with a 2-1 victory over Spain on Monday.

The U.S. Women’s National Team has struck a tentative agreement with the U.S. Soccer Federation to seek mediation pay after the conclusion of the World Cup, the Wall Street Journal reports.

With the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team vying for the World Cup in France this month, many are stirring the argument over the pay gap between the women’s and U.S. Men’s teams.

The U.S. women’s national soccer team has not yet won the World Cup this year. However, that rather significant factor did not prevent one of the team’s star players from saying what she would not celebrate at the White House if they did.

The country of Qatar has nearly finished its new arena for the 2022 World Cup. However, many are ridiculing the design of the building as the “vagina stadium.”

Surviving in the sun can be a real struggle for football fans in Florida. However, that struggle has not gone unnoticed by the upper management of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Paris (AFP) – American Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad and representatives of her sponsors, Nike, criticised French attitudes to the hijab on a promotional visit to the country.

Four migrant men have been arrested after a middle-aged woman was gang-raped on the night of France’s World Cup win.

Labour’s shadow sports minister has said England fans did not fly the St George’s flag at the World Cup as it is considered “far right” and not “welcoming” to minorities, blaming Brexit.

Dozens of women have complained of sex attacks during the disorderly celebrations which followed France’s World Cup win.

Washington (AFP) – The host of America’s late-night TV program “The Daily Show” has drawn the ire of France’s ambassador to the US after joking that “Africa won the World Cup.”

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro declared on Tuesday that the continent of Africa was the real winner of the FIFA World Cup after France won the competition with a team comprising many players of African heritage.

French celebrations over the national football team’s World Cup victory on Sunday quickly turned to violence, with street clashes, vandalism, attacks on police, and scenes of looting in cities across the country.

Paris (AFP) – Dozens of youths shattered windows at a popular store on the Champs Elysees avenue Sunday while hundreds of thousands of fans celebrated France’s World Cup victory, according to an AFP journalist at the scene.

Russian president Vladimir Putin arrived onstage at the awards ceremony for the FIFA World Cup with the sole umbrella in the middle of a torrential downpour — leaving French president Emmanuel Macron and Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović standing in the rain for several minutes until more umbrellas could be found.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian protest group Pussy Riot claimed responsibility Sunday for four people who brought the World Cup final to a brief halt by running onto the field dressed in police uniforms.

Moscow (AFP) – France won their second World Cup 20 years after their maiden triumph on Sunday, seeing off a dogged and desperate Croatia side who refused to lie down in one of the most electrifying finals in recent years.

Paris (AFP) – France erupted in joy on Sunday as the country clinched the World Cup, with fans streaming into the streets, honking car horns and flying the tricolore flag at the start of an enormous national celebration.

MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of foreign men have flooded into Russia for the monthlong World Cup, setting off a fierce debate in the host nation about the roles and rights of women.

On Sunday, the World Cup battle between Croatia and France will test which team has what it takes to be the best football team on the planet.

Belgium achieved their best World Cup finish as goals from Thomas Meunier and Eden Hazard secured a 2-0 victory over England in Saturday’s third-place playoff in Saint Petersburg.

American progressives use the World Cup soccer tournament for multiculturalist virtue-signaling, as an opportunity for them to sneer at the lowbrow Middle America who ignore an international sport that drives the rest of the world bonkers.

Martin Selmayr, the head of the EU bureaucracy once described as the ‘Rasputin of Brussels’, mocked England after they were knocked out of the World Cup by Croatia on social media.

President Donald Trump was presented with a jersey by Croatian leader Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic on Wednesday morning. A few hours later, Croatia defeated England to earn their first trip to a World Cup final.

With the World Cup coming closer to its final games for 2018, a USA Today columnist decided that the international tournament makes the perfect argument for immigration.