U.S. jury poised to weigh international soccer’s ugly side
NEW YORK — For seven weeks in a U.S. courtroom, federal jurors bore witness to a corruption scandal that had gripped professional soccer and must now decide the fates of two…
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Greg Hansen: Salpointe’s Wolfgang Weber paved prep soccer’s path in So.…
Phil Gruensfelder flips through his 1979 Canyon del Oro High School yearbook until he gets to the page on the Dorados' club soccer team. There is a familiar man in the…
ESPN’s ex-top exec describes how soccer’s World Cup was lost
BOBBY CAINA CALVAN
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A former ESPN executive underscored how big money corrupted soccer, testifying in U.S. District Court on…
Man City case could join list of soccer’s biggest scandals
Manchester City is not the first high-profile soccer club to be caught up in a scandal.The Premier League has accused City of breaching a host of financial regulations, and the club could…
Messi wins World Cup, strengthening his case to be considered soccer’s GOAT
Issued on: 18/12/2022 - 21:51
After finally winning the World Cup, Lionel Messi made his strongest case yet to be considered…
Maradona ‘Hand of God’ ball sold for $2.4M by referee who missed soccer’s most famous…
By Associated Press
LONDON: The ball punched in by Diego Maradona for his “Hand of God” goal at the 1986 World Cup has been sold at auction for nearly $2.4 million by…
How USC soccer’s Croix Bethune became one of the best players in the country
Since Hannah White was 7 years old, there was one name at the top of every scouting report.Croix Bethune.White, a USC forward who grew up playing on rival clubs against Bethune in the…
Science and Data Change Soccer’s Definition of Old
LONDON — The exact location of the threshold has always been contested. At Manchester United, for a time, it lurked close enough to 30 for that to serve as a natural watershed. Once players…
FIFA takes on EA Sports video game in soccer’s new rivalry
By Associated Press
LONDON: The name “FIFA” can bring to mind images of the World Cup and soccer’s greatest players, like Pele, Zinedine Zidane or Lionel Messi. The…
Messi, Ronaldo and Soccer’s Golden Sunset
This World Cup will extinguish the light of a whole galaxy. It will, most likely, be the final time Luka Modric, Thiago Silva, Daniel Alves, Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Jordi Alba, Ángel Di…