The Mysterious North Korean Soccer Team Revealed
North Korea enters today's match against Brazil shrouded in mystery — nobody knows much about their coach, most of their players, or the way they play. The same could be said for their 1966...
View ArticleWho Gets the World Cup Next?
Brazil has it in 2014, England in 2018. Is the U.S. next? That's what we'll find out in about two days time, as governing body FIFA announces the next locale for the largest sporting event in the...
View ArticleQatar 2022: Whistle Blower Says FIFA Officials Were Bribed for World Cup Bid
Matt Scott, sports reporter for The Guardian talks about an explosive development in the FIFA scandal. It was alleged that Qatar had bribed FIFA in order to host the 2022 World Cup, and a new email has...
View ArticleFIFA In Hot Water After Bribery Evidence Emerges
The U.S. was confident it could have won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. They lost to Qatar. But recent evidence seems to show that FIFA officials were bribed to award Qatar with the...
View ArticleFor UK Soccer Teams, What Qualifies as 'British'?
When it comes to forming a national soccer team, conventional wisdom would suggest that the very best players would get their names on that roster. Not so in the United Kingdom. Gordon Farquhar of the...
View ArticleHere's Your 2014 World Cup Primer
We're less than three weeks out from the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and some of you might need a bit of a refresher on the stakes surrounding the world's most watched tournament.Brazil has hosted the...
View Article'Liars' and 'Bums': FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges
The feds are in a showdown with FIFA, major league soccer's global governing body. On Wednesday, Swiss authorities arrested several top officials gathered at their annual meeting in Zurich on charges...
View ArticleThe DOJ and FIFA: Making a Difference or Making a Statement?
Who cares about soccer in the land of the Yankees, Lebron, and the Cowboys? Soccer may not be America's most popular sport, but it's on the top of the agenda for the U.S. Department of Justice.On...
View ArticleAmerican Victory: Brandi Chastain on The Women's World Cup
Last night, Team U.S.A. defeated Germany 2-0 to advance to the World Cup final. With staunch defense, the U.S. controlled the game from its onset, but didn't take the lead until the 69th minute with...
View ArticleCarli Lloyd Secures World Cup Title for U.S. Women
The U.S. Women's National Team is partying like it's 1999, after a stunning defeat over Japan to win their first World Cup title in 16 years. Sunday's 5-2 victory was in large part due to midfielder...
View ArticlePre-Gaming the US's Big World Cup Match
Live from Rio, Fernando Rodriguez-Vila, co-host of "The Soccer Gods" on Fusion, joins us to preview the U.S.-Germany match, which starts at noon, and some of the other emerging story lines as the World...
View ArticleFemale soccer players launch a turf war over next year's Women's World Cup
Some of the best female soccer players in the world say playing next year's Women's World Cup in Canada on artificial grass fields is both dangerous and discriminatory — and that FIFA would never ask...
View ArticleConcussions in soccer are a real thing. So why not change the substitution...
Soccer's governing body FIFA is being sued in California over the sport's handling of concussions. One key to the debate over concussions in soccer is whether FIFA will change its rigid substitution...
View ArticleSwiss Open Criminal Proceedings in 2018, '22 World Cup Votes
Swiss federal prosecutors opened criminal proceedings related to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, throwing FIFA deeper into crisis only hours after six soccer officials were arrested...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Not Surprised by FIFA Corruption Allegations
An inquiry by the US Justice Department into corruption within FIFA, soccer's international governing body, led to several arrests on Wednesday. 14 people, including FIFA officials and others involved...
View ArticleFIFA; Rise of PTSD; Aftershocks of Apartheid
A new play at BAM, "A Human Being Died That Night," addresses the aftershocks of apartheid in South Africa. The writer of the book the play is based on, Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and the play's...
View ArticleThe Bags and Bags and More Bags of Cash Edition
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the U.S. government's case against international soccer's most powerful and corrupt organization, the assault against the USA PATRIOT Act, and a...
View ArticleThe FIFA ‘Syndicate’ Finally Meets Its Match
George Vecsey, sports columnist for The New York Times and the author of the book Eight World Cups: My Journey through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer (St. Martin's Griffin, 2014), and Carl Bialik,...
View ArticleIn World Soccer, a Handel Anthem Provides Timely Theme Music
Soccer has long been a highly musical sport, steeped in national anthems, chants and ceremonial songs and arias. Since 1992, the theme music for the European soccer body UEFA has been closely based on...
View ArticleWill Men Steal the Spotlight at the Women’s World Cup?
Allison McCann, a visual journalist for FiveThirtyEight who's been documenting the most prominent players in the Women's World Cup for Grantland, and Jeré Longman, a sports reporter for The New York...
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