World Cup

A father who went to jail for stealing more than £1 million from his company to gamble on sports is sharing his story to encourage gambling addicts to seek help.

Luis Rubiales, president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), has resigned from his position amid uproar.

FIFA suspended Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales over kissing a player on the lips after the team won the World Cup.

Reports circulating this week that Visit Saudi, the official tourism board of Saudi Arabia, would sponsor the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup prompted an eruption of outrage in the soccer world and a loud protest on Wednesday by host nations Australia and New Zealand that they were not involved in the approval process.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82.

World Cup celebrations in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday attracted millions of people and left “unimaginable” damage in their wake, government officials said.

Argentina obtained Its long sought-after third FIFA World Cup victory on Sunday, leaving the nation’s leftist government to pay back its promise to solve inflation only after the Cup returned to Buenos Aires.

Video went viral on Sunday showing French soccer star Kylian Mbappe appearing to ignore President Emmanuel Macron.

Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez put the hand-shaped trophy to his crotch and made a pumping gesture, shocking everyone in the stadium.

David Beckham has made his first public statement on his controversial multi-million-dollar ambassador’s role with World Cup hosts Qatar, telling the New York Times he believed “sport has the power to be a force for good in the world.”

LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Lionel Messi’s once-in-a-generation career is complete. The Argentina superstar is finally a World Cup champion.

The international soccer organization FIFA denied a request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address viewers of Sunday’s World Cup final in Qatar, left-wing outlet CNN reported on Friday.

A teenage boy was killed after being run over by a car as riots broke out following France’s victory over Morocco in the World Cup.

Gary Lineker, a white British soccer reporter, went on an anti-American tirade this week branding the United States “extraordinarily racist.”

So many journalists have died at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar that the global soccer organization announced on Tuesday it had reserved areas in its media centers for condolence books to honor the dead.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A security guard died after suffering a fall at a World Cup stadium in Qatar, tournament organizers said on Wednesday.

Grant Wahl, the 49-year-old American soccer journalist who suddenly collapsed and died while covering the World Cup in Qatar on Friday, died from an aortic aneurysm, according to his wife.

On Tuesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) reacted to a report by the network on the slow pace of evacuating Afghan allies by stating that “It’s bureaucracy that’s killing people, that’s putting their lives at risk,” and blasting the

FIFPRO responded with outrage upon learning that Iranian player Amir Nasr-Azadani faces a possible death sentence.

The human rights organization Cuban Prisoners Defenders published a report Tuesday accusing the Mideast emirate of Qatar of funding and benefiting from Cuba’s slave doctor industry — and forcing enslaved health workers to promote Doha’s “political agendas.”

The ‘Washington Post’ was forced to correct a piece that inaccurately cited the number of blacks living in Argentina.

A second sports journalist has died in Qatar while covering the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Moroccans rioted on the streets of Paris in the wake of their country’s win over Portugal in Qatar at the World Cup.

A vice president of the European Parliament was arrested in connection to a corruption case involving the Islamist government of Qatar.

America soccer reporter Grant Wahl, 49, died suddenly early Saturday while covering a World Cup match in Qatar, the Associated Press reported.

A former soccer star for Cameroon and current national team president was involved in a fight where he appeared to kick a man in the face outside the World Cup on Monday night.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan visited Qatar on Monday, meeting with the nation’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and congratulating the country on hosting the FIFA World Cup, the world’s most prestigious soccer tournament.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez had a fever for the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team, but missed the World Cup hype by just a day.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pelé has a respiratory infection and will remain at the hospital where he’s been since Tuesday.

Presenters on a Qatari sports network mocked Germany’s early exit from the World Cup by covering their mouths and waving goodbye.

The U.S. Women’s National Team will rake in millions thanks to the new profit-sharing agreement with the Men’s team in this year’s World Cup.

State security forces assassinated a 27-year-old Iranian man in Northern Iran as he celebrated his country’s loss to the United States in the World Cup, according to unconfirmed reports.

Iranians took to the streets to celebrate the United States beating their country in the World Cup tournament on Tuesday.

The head of a top Qatari government agency admitted this week to “between 400 and 500” worker deaths during the construction of facilities for the FIFA World Cup — a much larger figure than the 40 the Islamist regime had admitted to in the past.

U.S. soccer star Christian Pulisic sacrificed his body – including some of the more crucial parts of his body – in order to score a goal against Iran and keep America’s World Cup dreams alive.

Despite persistent controversy over the country’s attitude towards LGBT issues, Germany has now agreed to buy gas from Qatar.