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MLS will have 44 players at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the most the league has ever sent to the sport's biggest international tournament.

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For the last eight months, The Athletic has been investigating the threat of fixing to the integrity of sport. In this first article in the series, we uncover the sheer scale of the threat around the ...

When gangs set fire to the FIFA Goal Center in Haiti’s capital this year, it wasn’t just a key sports ground that went up in flames. It was the center of Haitian youth sports, a training ground for ...

In English, it’s called the World Cup, but I prefer the stirring names by which it’s known in other European ...

Rob McElhenney dishes on soccer, how the cultures of Wrexham and Necaxa have shaped his growth and appreciation for the sport ...

Prince William paid a surprise visit to the English national team’s training center earlier this month ahead of the 2026 FIFA ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Bordeaux’s Maxime Lucu lifts the trophy after ...

It has been a season like no other in Scotland, as the likes of Celtic, Hearts, Rangers, Motherwell, and Hibernian were at the heart of it all. In the end, it was Celtic lifting the domestic double, ...