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Argentinian soccer great Diego Maradona has died after undergoing surgery for a subdural hematoma earlier this month. He was 60 years old.

A criminal case against FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been opened by a Swiss special prosecutor

Philadelphia Soccer 2026, the city’s official World Cup bid committee, made its presentation Friday to be a host site for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.

Prosecutors revealed new details of alleged bribes paid to FIFA executive committee members to gain their votes for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup

Deposition excerpts in the lawsuit by American women’s soccer players against the U.S. Soccer Federation reveal lawyers for the governing body questioned the athletes about the distinction between their game and that of the men.

The Philadelphia World Cup bid committee received $2 million in grants to bolster its efforts to be selected as a host city for the 2026 games.

After becoming the first six-time winner of the Ballon d’Or, Lionel Messi said he’s far from finished. “I hope to continue for a long time,” Messi said on Monday in Paris from behind a row of the trophies which honor the world’s best soccer player.

With the World Cup coming to North America in 2026, Philadelphia could potentially be a host city.

U.S. Soccer was misleading when it asserted some players for the women’s national team made more money than their male counterparts, the women’s team players said in court documents filed Monday. The players say in the documents that the men’s pay would have been far greater if they’d had the same success on the field as the women. The filing...

Tokyo Olympic organizers and two government bodies building venues for next year’s games have until the end of the month to agree to outside inspections on construction sites. Ambet Yuson, the general secretary of the Building and Wood Workers’ International, made the request on Thursday to officials of the Tokyo organizing committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japan Sport...

On their first week in class, a group of students is playing a first-person shooter video game in a sleek new digital studio. It’s their introduction to the degree in esports they’ve all enrolled in. The group clicking away on their mice are at the University of Staffordshire, one of several U.K. and U.S. schools launching programs aimed at capitalizing...

FIFA’s Council has unanimously approved expanding the Women’s World Cup from 24 teams to 32 for 2023 and has reopened bidding to host the tournament but made no mention of changing prize money. FIFA said Wednesday the decision was made remotely. Nine national associations had expressed interest in hosting and were due to submit their formal bids by Oct. 4:...

Women’s national team coach Jill Ellis is stepping down after leading the U.S. to back-to-back FIFA Women’s World Cup titles

The United States Women’s National Team, fresh off its win of the 2019 World Cup, will make a stop in Philadelphia as part of its victory tour.

Fans supported the team in a gender discrimination suit the players filed against the U.S. Soccer Federation.

Women’s soccer engages the U.S. every four years, then disappears for most fans like a comet leaving the solar system. In the wake of the Americans’ record-setting fourth World Cup title Sunday, the hard part remains: the weekly work of boosting the National Women’s Soccer League, where average attendance remains at a minor league level.

New York City will hold a ticker tape parade this week to celebrate the United States’ win over the Netherlands in the Women’s World Cup, the mayor said.

Yifei Liu is playing the title character in the movie, which hits theaters in March 2020.

Megan Rapinoe scored on a penalty kick as the U.S. Women’s National Team beat the Netherlands, 2-0, to secure a fourth World Cup title.

After every goal celebration and all the confident posturing, the U.S. national team backed up its swagger at the Women’s World Cup by winning it all. The Americans also took a swipe at gender inequity, too. The United States won its record fourth Women’s World Cup title and second in a row, beating the Netherlands 2-0 Sunday night when Megan...