How did a sport codified in England end up with a nickname that divides the Anglophone world? The surprising history of ...

Often dubbed “The World’s Game,” the sport of soccer had to originate somewhere. Due to its accessibility and straightforward concept, people all across the globe revere the sport, and it shows when ...

The two most fabled decades in English popular culture are, almost without question, the 1960s and the 1990s. Those periods represented peaks for the nation’s two major obsessions: music and football.

A brief history of the evolution of the U.S. men's national team and its performances since the first World Cup in 1930.

American fans have not simply fallen in love with a “foreign” sport. They’ve fallen in love because that sport has, substantially, been remade in the image of American capitalism and marketed to them, ...

“Pele Signs With Cosmos: ‘Soccer Has Arrived’ Here With the same ebullience that has marked his play, Pele took up his new career yesterday as a New York Cosmos forward and soccer’s ambassador to the ...