For all the growth in American soccer over the past quarter-century, the U.S. men’s national team remains stagnant. Christian ...

Brazil, the team everyone in world soccer for so long feared, have once again seen their World Cup dreams shattered. On Sunday evening at MetLife, the record fi ...

Across New Jersey, the World Cup has turned neighborhoods into scenes of celebrations. For a few hours at a time, the weight ...

Jesse Marsch, head coach of the Canadian national soccer team, said in the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup: “We are so proud to ...

The tournament expanded to 48 teams this year, and 40 have at least one player on the 26-man roster born outside the country.

Malik Tillman is soft-spoken off the field with his interviews often given at a volume just above a whisper. He spoke loudly ...

For many immigrants, the World Cup matches provide an opportunity for members of their diaspora to gather around a shared ...

When Iraq qualified for its first World Cup since 1986 — the first in the lifetime of the 32-year-old laboratory technician ...

Now that the dust has settled on the group stage of the tournament, we stop in to take a look at some facts and figures from the bracket.

At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to ...

The World Cup has brought massive crowds to Houston, but Reliant Stadium has packed in even more people in the past to watch ...