What is soccer culture in the United States? Many would argue we don’t really have it. Our league structure is a corporate spectacle, there’s a lack of quality at the national team level (on the men’s ...

Although many New Mexico United supporters may believe that the USL Championship League team has marked the birth of soccer locally, the sport actually has a long and storied history in the state.

The first documented mention of a soccer game in Louisiana is from January 25, 1859. But it is not in a local newspaper and pre-dates the era of radio or television. Instead, it is filed in a police ...

Sunday’s FIFA Club World Cup game at the Rose Bowl is a reminder that L.A. has nearly 125 years of soccer history. LA soccer's beginning: In 1902, when the Southern California Foot Ball League was ...

The recent history of soccer and Northern Ireland is not a happy one. In September the U.K. government confirmed it would not fund the redevelopment of Casement Park in Belfast, meaning that Northern ...

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“Pele Signs With Cosmos: ‘Soccer Has Arrived’ Here With the same ebullience that has marked his play, Pele took up his new career yesterday as a New York Cosmos forward and soccer’s ambassador to the ...