Two decades after their most recent win in 2006, Italy hopes to break their streak of bad luck and finally qualify for the ...

The Brazil national team has had some of the best soccer sides in history. Brazil’s soccer teams have had plenty of great ...

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Ahmed Faras, a true icon of Moroccan football, passed away today at the age of 78 following a battle with illness.

AI named the greatest 23-Man England squad in football history but some huge names failed to make the team, including David Beckham and Gary Lineker.

That formula will be used in evidence against him if anything goes wrong at Ibrox in midweek. There was the suggestion of an authoritarian streak when Martin revealed an unspecified breach of rules at ...

The obsession could be traced back to the iconic, technically endowed 1970 World Cup squad that dazzled the world with its ...

Andy King ’s volley to win a Merseyside Derby in the late ‘70s. Sadly, this game saw the club’s greatest ever goalscorer, ...

According to legend, English saint Swithun is reburied inside Winchester Cathedral (against his wishes), whereby a terrible storm proceeds ...

Four years after Iniesta’s winner, another World Cup final was settled by an excellent extra-time goal. Germany forward Mario Gotze was the hero on this occasion. He improvised superbly to chest down ...

The former Uruguay legend looks back on their 1990 FIFA World Cup campaign and the nation's impressive pedigree of developing top players.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The great Saudi Arabian soccer experiment is on full show at the Club World Cup.