Soccer

PARIS—Michel Platini, the former head of European football association UEFA, was detained for questioning by French police on June 18 over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament ...

REIMS, France—Alex Morgan tied a World Cup record with five goals as the defending champion U.S. national team ...

Ex-Arsenal and Real Madrid star Jose Antonio Reyes has been killed in a traffic accident, his former club ...

A 27-year-old soccer player died of a heart attack after he finished playing a match and downed a ...

CHICAGO—Jurgen Klinsmann received a $3.35 million settlement of his contract with the United States Soccer Federation, according to ...

Police in Nevada have formally asked Italian authorities to obtain a DNA sample from Portuguese soccer star Cristiano ...

Manchester United has fired manager Jose Mourinho after two-and-a-half years at the helm of the iconic British soccer ...

LAS VEGAS—Attorneys for a Nevada woman accusing Cristiano Ronaldo of rape challenged the international soccer star's legal team ...

On Sept. 23, 7-year-old Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja performed the national anthem before a game between the L.A. Galaxy ...

A football match in England was called off on when a volunteer went into cardiac arrest and had ...

Usain Bolt is scheduled to play in his first professional soccer game, for a club in Australia. Bolt, ...

ZURICH—The head of the Palestinian Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, was banned from all soccer-related activity for a year ...

NEW YORK—A former president of Brazil's soccer federation was sentenced on Aug. 22 by a U.S. judge to ...

MELBOURNE—Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt eased into his first training session with Australia's Central Coast Mariners on Aug. ...

The eight-time Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt wore a Mariners scarf after landing in Sydney on Saturday following ...

Brazilian's first Santos FC coach 'Lima' reveals start of PSG star's rise to glory. Antônio Lima Dos Santos ...

North and South Korean workers held friendly soccer matches at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on Saturday (August ...

Sports-streaming startup DAZN has an ambitious business goal in Italy: Sign up 3–5 million customers, as many as ...

The Qatar 2022 World Cup bid team ran a secret operation to undermine its competitors, a British newspaper ...

The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia served as an intriguing test of soccer interest in the United ...

PARIS/MOSCOW—Millions of French fans were overwhelmed with joy on Sunday as France beat Croatia 4-2 to win soccer's ...

MOSCOW—France won the World Cup for the second time by ending Croatia's dream of a first title with ...

SOCHI, Russia—Bert van Marwijk’s short reign as Australia coach came to a bittersweet end as his side were ...

SAMARA, Russia—Captain Mile Jedinak rode to Australia’s World Cup rescue with a penalty to cancel out Christian Eriksen’s ...

MOSCOW—Cristiano Ronaldo powered-home a fourth-minute header to give Portugal a 1-0 World Cup victory over Morocco that took ...

If the World Cup is to be a success, it depends on what happens on the pitch. In ...

President Donald Trump celebrated the selection of the joint bid by the United States, Canada, and Mexico to ...