Soccer

A new report has revealed racial bias in European soccer commentary. According to the report from Danish firm RunRepeat, carried out in partnership with the UK Professional Footballers’ Association, the...

Germany’s privilege was also its risk. On May 16, the Bundesliga became the first major league in any sport in the world to tread gingerly into the light of the...

MUMBAI – A storm could be brewing in India’s top-flight soccer, a glamorous and acrimonious world that encompasses Asia’s richest man, the cream of Bollywood and a self-styled former gangster....

MANCHESTER, England — For two weeks, the players of the Premier League have been taking a knee before games, demonstrating their support for the Black Lives Matter movement to millions...

Always pushing the boundaries of sports science and technological development, Nike has once again created an innovative product to tackle many of the sporting world’s underlying problems. This time, the...

Pretty quickly, Paolo Dal Pino realized that the illustrious list of names on his glittering résumé, the long years spent in the boardrooms of some of Italy’s corporate behemoths, the...

Players for the Portland Thorns and the North Carolina Courage knelt during the national anthem Saturday when the National Women’s Soccer League opened the Challenge Cup tournament in Utah. The...

It almost didn’t feel like a choice to Kaiya McCullough. She was 19, a U.C.L.A. sophomore with hopes of becoming a professional women’s soccer player, when she first decided to...

Jean-Michel Aulas has been watching a lot of soccer in recent weeks. His emotions have been mixed. On the one hand, Aulas, the president of the French club Olympique Lyonnais,...

LONDON—Police helicopters and emergency dispersal measures were needed in the early hours of Saturday morning as cops battled to stop soccer fans gathering in a known coronavirus hotspot to celebrate...