Soccers

By Associated Press MADRID: Hanging from a highway bridge in Madrid, an effigy of one of the world’s most famous Black soccer players stands as a graphic reminder of the racism that sweeps through European soccer.…

NEW YORK — For seven weeks in a U.S. courtroom, federal jurors bore witness to a corruption scandal that had gripped professional soccer and must now decide the fates of two former Fox executives accused of paying millions…

Phil Gruensfelder flips through his 1979 Canyon del Oro High School yearbook until he gets to the page on the Dorados' club soccer team. There is a familiar man in the photo. Wolfgang Weber, head coach.Weber was 32, a pup.…

BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK — A former ESPN executive underscored how big money corrupted soccer, testifying in U.S. District Court on Tuesday that his company's bid to televise the…

Issued on: 18/12/2022 - 21:51 After finally winning the World Cup, Lionel Messi made his strongest case yet to be considered soccer’s greatest player of all time.…

By Associated Press LONDON: The ball punched in by Diego Maradona for his “Hand of God” goal at the 1986 World Cup has been sold at auction for nearly $2.4 million by the referee who missed soccer’s most famous…

In this Aug. 20, 2019 file photo, gamers play latest video games from Electronic Arts at the Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. For three decades, the Zurich-based…

This World Cup will extinguish the light of a whole galaxy. It will, most likely, be the final time Luka Modric, Thiago Silva, Daniel Alves, Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Jordi Alba, Ángel Di María, Luis Suárez, Edinson Cavani, Eden Hazard…

By Associated Press LONDON: UEFA is exploring fresh sanctions to thwart Russia's attempt to host soccer's European Championship after the country launched a surprising bid, one month after invading its neighbor and…

The biggest reforms of European soccer’s financial controls in a generation will stop short of creating U.S.-style salary caps to restrain teams’ spending, and instead will enact rules that are unlikely to stop the continent’s richest clubs…