A new reality begins for Phoenix Rising FC on Saturday. For the first time in franchise history, the club is the defending title-holder of the USL Championship. After…
Read more Phoenix Rising opens new season on Saturday with targets on their backsLUSAIL, Qatar — In his first start for Portugal’s national team, Gonçalo Ramos showed that he has the goods — and the goals — to stand in for…
Read more Little known before World Cup, Ramos goals lift PortugalSpain’s Marco Asensio, top, and Morocco’s Nayef Aguerd challenge for the ball during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Morocco and Spain, at the Education…
Read more Morocco and Spain go to penalty shootout at World CupDOHA, Qatar — Cameroon soccer federation president and former star player Samuel Eto’o was filmed apparently kicking a man to the ground in an altercation outside a World…
Read more Samuel Eto’o filmed in altercation outside World Cup gameDOHA, Qatar — In a dusty neighborhood on the outskirts of Qatar’s capital, guards stand duty at a gated compound ringed with razor wire, carefully checking passports and…
Read more World Cup fans find booze at hotels, Qatar’s 1 liquor storeByThe Associated Press December 4, 2022, 3:24 AM A guard rides his camels outside the Amiri Diwan in Doha, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) The Associated…
Read more AP PHOTOS: Camels a common sight for World Cup visitorsDOHA, Qatar — It’s a huge day for goalkeepers with big reputations when defending champion France faces Poland in the round of 16 at the World Cup on…
Read more Big day at World Cup looms for France, Poland goalkeepersAL RAYYAN, Qatar — Memphis Depay and Daley Blind scored in the first half and Denzel Dumfries added a late goal as the Netherlands eliminated the United States…
Read more US knocked out of World Cup, loses to the Netherlands 3-1DOHA, Qatar — Neymar is expected to train with Brazil again on Saturday while left back Alex Telles and forward Gabriel Jesus have been ruled out for the…
Read more Neymar expected to train again with Brazil at World CupDOHA, Qatar — For a nation that has frequently flattered to deceive at soccer’s major tournaments, a card game that relies on the art of deception is strengthening…
Read more England bonds over cards ahead of Senegal World Cup clashDOHA, Qatar — Australia’s players speak in glowing, almost reverential terms about Lionel Messi. “He just does things that, you know, no one else can do,” forward Mathew…
Read more Messi, Argentina try to avoid World Cup upset vs. AustraliaDOHA, Qatar — Same stadium. Same result. Similar shocking victory for Japan at the World Cup. After beating Germany in the team’s opener, Japan worked its way into…
Read more Japan beats Spain 2-1 as both teams advance at World CupSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in…
Read more DEA’s most corrupt agent: Parties, sex amid ‘unwinnable war’LUSAIL, Qatar — From a generational-defining win over Lionel Messi and Argentina to the recent reports that Cristiano Ronaldo could soon be on his way to play soccer…
Read more Saudi Arabia exits World Cup with newfound confidenceIRPIN, Ukraine — Ukrainian video-game vendor Roman Kryvyi, fresh from a soccer game on a snow-blanketed field in suburban Kyiv, sat up close to a TV in a…
Read more In Ukraine, seeing World Cup, playing soccer pose challengesDOHA , Qatar — When Belgium’s “Golden Generation” meets Croatia’s accomplished veterans in a decisive World Cup match on Thursday, there won’t be much room on the field…
Read more Not much room for youth in Croatia vs Belgium at World CupDOHA, Qatar — U.S. forward Christian Pulisic is listed as day to day after sustaining a pelvic injury during his team’s 1-0 World Cup win against Iran that…
Read more Pulisic listed as day-to-day with pelvic injury at World CupBAGHDAD — The U.S. team’s victory over Iran at the World Cup on Tuesday was closely watched across the Middle East, where the two nations have been engaged…
Read more US-Iran match mirrored a regional rivalry for many Arab fansDOHA, Qatar — Defending champion France has not won its three World Cup group-stage matches since winning its first title in 1998. Tunisia hasn’t even won three matches…
Read more France can win WCup group in style, Tunisia simply must winDOHA, Qatar — Enner Valencia has scored Ecuador’s last six World Cup goals, so there’s no understating how worried his country is after he was carried off the…
Read more Ecuador frets over Valencia ahead of Senegal at World Cup
