The World Cup arrives Thursday in L.A., and culture lovers can get in on the action at a variety of local museum watch ...

A World Cup in America once felt like a foreign broadcast bleeding faintly through static. Fans had to seek it out. They had ...

U.S. Soccer history didn't start in 1990. But the USMNT did not begin to flourish until qualification was achieved for Italia ...

Miami Herald soccer writer Michelle Kaufman prepares to cover her seventh World Cup and shares 32 years of tournament history ...

From Mario Kempes to Lionel Messi, we look back over the winners of the men’s World Cup’s player-of-the-tournament award.

Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app. A thousand matches. Many of them life-changing, several history-changing. All of them part of the story. After 96 ...

The biggest FIFA World Cup to date, with a record 48 teams set to play a record 104 matches spread out across the U.S., ...

Our World Cup betting guide tells you where to bet on the 2026 World Cup, gives odds, rosters, schedule, promo offers, and ...

South American teams have won every single World Cup hosted in North America, but can one of the six teams continue that ...

As 48 teams, including eight from the Arab region, prepare for the big event across the US, Canada and Mexico, here's ...

Shakira and Burna Boy will perform in Mexico City for the first of three opening ceremonies at the World Cup. The music stars ...

Escalating US pressure on Cuba is pushing the island into a humanitarian and economic catastrophe. That may be by design.