What exactly is it that makes the World Cup so alluring? Every four years, the tournament arrives like a massive religious ...

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Thanks to the World Cup's return to North Jersey for the first time since 1994, local sports stores are seeing a boost. And ...

You want a recipe for an all-time tournament? Blend comebacks, underdogs and maximum output from the superstars. That's what ...

Despite a war disrupting its soccer infrastructure, visa issues and travel restrictions, Iran will enter its final game of World Cup group play with a chance to move into the knockout round.

There's a mesmeric quality to this story of '78, a legend of how a man and a country lost the run of itself, writes .

Spending billions of dollars and attracting some of soccer’s biggest stars doesn’t guarantee success at the World Cup ...

The Fifa World Cup has never really existed in a political vacuum. Long before debates over travel bans or immigration policies, the tournament had already become a stage where governments projected ...

Some Iranian Americans in the Boston area said they were rooting for their home country's defeat in the World Cup.

The America I arrived in felt more open. More confident. More willing to take a chance on a stranger. There was a sense, in ...

The episode lays bare the subordination of the world’s most popular sports tournament to the US financial oligarchy and the ...