On the list of places hosting important World Cup qualifying matches this year, there is Wembley in London, there is Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, and there is Rio Tinto Stadium in the home of “Big ... Read more
On the list of places hosting important World Cup qualifying matches this year, there is Wembley in London, there is Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, and there is Rio Tinto Stadium in the home of “Big ... Read more
PARIS — Winning isn’t everything, apparently. On May 12, the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team clinched its first French championship in 19 years to the wild delight of its players, its ... Read more
PARIS — Officials canceled a city hall ceremony for the champions of France’s national soccer league on Tuesday after hundreds of rampaging fans attacked stores, cars and police officers in the ... Read more
BERLIN – France’s finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, warned on Tuesday against caricatures and misunderstandings over Germany’s handling of the euro crisis, but quickly qualified his ... Read more
BERLIN — To say Uli Hoeness led a charmed life does not do him justice. He won soccer’s World Cup on his home soil as a player in 1974. The son of a butcher, he grew rich as the ... Read more
WÜRSELEN, Germany — The organization at the heart of international soccer’s technological advancement is located in a generic two-story building just off the A4 highway here, a few steps up the ... Read more
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s national soccer team played Syria on the greenest patch of grass in Baghdad the other night, under bright lights that mostly stayed lit, before tens of thousands of Iraqis cheering ... Read more
LONDON (AP) — Barcelona received the maximum points in AP's global soccer rankings on Tuesday, with the team's striker, Lionel Messi, coming close to top marks. The Catalan team was rewarded by The Associated ... Read more
BUENOS AIRES — San Lorenzo de Almagro, a top-division soccer club here, has holy beginnings. It was created in 1908 by Lorenzo Massa, a priest. One of the team’s nicknames is Los Santos (the ... Read more