Former U.S. soccer star Paul Caligiuri is reinventing himself as a grassroots evangelist, challenging pay-to-play costs and ...

All eyes will be on the World Cup host cities this summer, but perhaps none more so than Los Angeles, which is also preparing ...

Predictions about who will be the next world champion often miss the mark. The pressure at this tournament is as intense as ...

Portugal and its quest to win the country's first World Cup headlines Group K but there are other teams to keep an eye on in ...

With the World Cup nearly upon us, Guardian readers share their mixed emotions – enthusiasm, hope, unease, anger, optimism – around this summer’s tournament ...

I t’s hard to imagine a more fraught combination for what was supposed to be a fun Friday night: Seattle’s Pride celebration ...

Whoever first coined the phrase "sport and politics don't mix" clearly wasn't much of a sports fan or political anorak.

US customs officials have since confirmed that Iraq's forward Aymen Hussein, who scored the FIFA qualifying goal for the ...

Iraq's star striker, Aymen Hussein, was detained for nearly 7 hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad ...

The FIFA World Cup 2026 will begin on June 11, featuring 48 teams, yet India remains absent from the tournament despite. They ...

Senegal enter the first 48-team World Cup as Africa's second best side in the Fifa rankings. In the sixth instalment of a ...

Want to impress your friends at the World Cup watch party? Tell ’em six hosts have won the title, and the last one to do it ...