U.S. Soccer welcomed FIFA's decision on star player Folarin Balogun and shifted its focus to a World Cup round-of-16 showdown ...

Few figures have witnessed the evolution of American women’s soccer as closely as Megan Rapinoe and Ali Krieger. So when the ...

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking to The Athletic at City Hall in New York New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is in the central chamber of the governor’s room of City Hall, a quarter that ...

On March 29, an overcast Sunday in rural Georgia, Matt Crocker strode across a vast pitch that represented the future of U.S. Soccer. By his side was JT Batson, the CEO who’d hired him. Together with ...

April 14 - Matt Crocker is leaving his position as U.S. Soccer Federation's sporting director to pursue what the organization labeled on Tuesday as "another opportunity in international soccer." Fox ...

Borussia Monchengladbach midfielder Gio Reyna is going to his second straight World Cup representing the United States men's national team. On the surface, this may not seem significant, as in 2022, ...

As part of our Language of Soccer World Cup series, The Athletic is speaking to supporters of all 48 nations competing at the 2026 edition to capture their unique football culture, distilled into a ...

Matt Crocker's sudden departure from U.S. Soccer isn't sitting well with some U.S. men's national team greats. On Tuesday, April 14, Crocker resigned as U.S. Soccer sporting director with immediate ...

World Cup squads are official, and that means it's time to take some data from what will be a record-breaking World Cup in many ways. It will be the biggest World Cup in history with 48 teams taking ...