Russian women and visiting World Cup soccer fans: be fruitful and multiply.
After a lawmaker caused a backlash on social media by advising Russian women against getting involved with foreign soccer fans, one of her colleagues is urging love and procreation during the tournament.
Read moreNorth America will host the 2026 World Cup after FIFA voters overwhelmingly opted for the financial and logistical certainty of a United States-led bid over a risky Moroccan proposal for the first 48-team tournament.
Read morePeru captain Paolo Guerrero was cleared Thursday by a Swiss supreme court judge to play at the World Cup despite a doping ban.
Read moreAn Ohio judge gave Columbus Crew fans hope Tuesday that they can keep the soccer team in their city by issuing a 90-day hold on legal proceedings against the team’s owners, opening the door for investors interested in buying the team to submit offers under seal.
Read moreFIFA’s ethics committee has banned top Brazilian soccer official Marco Polo del Nero for life for bribery and corruption.
Read moreReinstating a trademark for Lionel Messi, the European General Court found Thursday that the soccer star is famous enough that his name wouldn’t be confused with a similar-sounding brand.
Read moreA court in Switzerland has sentenced a 34-year-old youth soccer coach to life in prison for the brutal slayings of four people that shocked the country.
Read moreIn an attempt to keep a Major League Soccer franchise in Columbus, the city and Ohio filed a lawsuit claiming the league and team are subject to a state law imposing restrictions on sports owners who use taxpayer money.
Read moreThough hope remains for a second-half turnaround, the Second Circuit refused Friday to make the U.S. Soccer Federation reinstate a Division II men’s league.
Read moreA men’s soccer league that just lost its Division II sanction hit the president of the U.S. Soccer Federation with civil corruption claims Tuesday.
Read moreLos Angeles is flirting with the idea of hosting the 2026 World Cup soccer tournament, ahead of its hosting duties for the Summer Olympics in 2028.
Read moreFIFA has made no attempt to contact Russian doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov to gain information about “many” footballers embroiled in the widespread conspiracy by the 2018 World Cup host nation, according to his lawyer.
Read moreA federal jury acquitted a Peruvian former soccer official Tuesday morning after deliberating on his case separately, a holiday weekend after it convicted his two co-defendants in the FIFA bribery scandal.
Read moreA federal jury convicted two former soccer officials from South America on Friday of corrupting FIFA, the sport’s international governing body.
Read moreIn closing arguments to a Brooklyn jury Thursday, a federal prosecutor refuted claims by three separate teams of defense lawyers who said their clients had nothing to do with the widespread corruption that has tainted international soccer for decades.
Read moreOn the first day of closing arguments Wednesday in a high-profile FIFA bribery trial, defense attorneys accused prosecutors of overreach in their indictments of three South American former soccer officials charged with money laundering, wire fraud and racketeering.
Read moreAn athlete known as much for her goalkeeping prowess as her controversies off the field, Hope Solo announced Thursday that she is running for president of the U.S. Soccer Federation.
Read moreCourthouse News’ western bureau chief waxes eloquently about the thrill of live sports – specifically soccer – in his latest dispatch, from California’s Santa Clara County.
Read moreFIFA defended Russia’s right to host the World Cup amid a series of doping scandals, saying Tuesday that there is no sign of “widespread” drug use in Russian soccer.
Read moreProsecutors told a federal judge Monday that they no longer want a pretrial detention for a former soccer official accused of threatening one of the witnesses in the FIFA corruption case.
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