World Cup is on! Each day ahead of the tournament's return to North America, Yahoo Sports will highlight an insight or moment ...

In an emailed statement to CBC News, FIFA said it has implemented strategies to reduce carbon emissions at the World Cup and protect players and staff from heat. It defended its c ...

Predictions about who will be the next World Cup champion often miss the mark. The pressure at this tournament is as intense as it gets for any player, and the margins are so fine that even a ...

Alexi Lalas, Cobi Jones and other members of the 1994 U.S. World Cup team offer urge this year's World Cup team to make the ...

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

When FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, chose Brazil to host the 2014 World Cup in 2007, national leaders dreamed ...

The U.S. men's national team chose to play a pair of highly-ranked, super competitive teams in the final lead-up to the World ...

In 1930, the United States men’s soccer team, composed mostly of immigrants and working-class amateurs from Northeastern ...

The United States has gone wild over foreign-born players on several occasions. Now the largest World Cup ever is arriving.

Jordan is competing in its first World Cup, while Iraq is making only its second appearance, as teams from the region seek to ...

Germany friendly was a celebration of soccer for Chicago, which is not among the 16 cities hosting World Cup games in the U.S ...

Kim Jong Un led the celebrations, and players wept with joy, as Asian club soccer’s newest women’s champions toasted a ...