Tag: Soccer

Russia, Soccer and a Line Drawn Too Late

Everton and Chelsea, for example, have significant financial ties to Russian oligarchs who were named by a British…

How Sanctions on Russia Could Affect Champions League and Top Soccer Clubs

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has exposed fissures in European soccer that are threatening multimillion-dollar sponsorship agreements and have…

U.S. Women’s Players and U.S. Soccer Settle Equal Pay Lawsuit

A six-year fight over equal pay that had pitted key members of the World Cup-winning United States women’s…

Africa Cup of Nations: Soccer Tournament Offers Joy Amid Coups and Covid

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — She had watched some of the matches secretly, volume turned down low so that nobody…

Amid Coups and Covid, Africa Focuses on What’s Most Important: Soccer

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — She had watched some of the matches secretly, volume turned down low so that nobody…

Inside the FIFA Legends, Questions of Power and Process

It was at the end of that meeting, the woman said, as she and Macedo left a conference…

Fabrizio Romano: Soccer’s Prophet of the Deal

In part, his expanding influence — he has added five million social media followers in the past 18…