There are 32 teams going to South Africa for World Cup 2010. Only one of them can win it. That’s just the way it works. But just because your team does’t win the whole thing, that doesn’t mean you haven’t had a successful tour...

Landon Donovan may be leaving his comfortable beach house this winter. According to the Guardian, EPL side Everton has contacted the Galaxy about loaning Donovan in January. Everton is near the relegation zone and has an injury crisis. They don...

The UEFA Champions League wrapped up on Thursday morning (AEST) with a meager serving of surprises. The early exits of Juventus and Liverpool aside, another group stage has come and gone with such...

If Michael Owen fails to make it into England’s World Cup squad then he has only himself, and possibly some of his advisors, to blame. As a world-class striker he has...

After Thierry Henry’s “Le Hand of God,” you can excuse many of us for losing a little faith in the Beautiful Game. Serie B today witnessed an extremely rare incident which may make the doubters...

Gregory Coupet, the goaltender for Paris Saint Germain, suffered a horrible leg injury during a routine play late in the match against Auxerre last Saturday. The soccer club's doctor said he was lucky not to have done even worse damage than he d...

Latest development in the already long running Thierry Henry handball incident (or “la main de dieu” as it’s being called by some) is that Henry himself thinks a replay is a good idea: “The...

LA Galaxy forward Landon Donovan has been named the 2009 Volkswagen MLS MVP for the first time in his career. Widely considered as the best American player ever, Donovan added to his 2009 awards after being named to the MLS Best XI and the winner of...

Days before David Beckham and the L.A. Galaxy are scheduled to take the pitch against Real Salt Lake in MLS Cup 2009, it appears the British star is taking precautions to address a foot injury. As seen above, TMZ snapped some photos of ...

A season is a long time in football and nowhere has this been more readily shown than in the MLS. David Beckham’s return to America fr...

Elizabeth Lambert, the University of New Mexico soccer player who was suspended indefinitely following several violent incidents she committed in a game against BYU on Nov. 5, sat down with The New York Times to speak for the first time about what ha...

Statistical guru Nate Silver, known previously for his work with baseball (PECOTA) and the 2008 election (fivethirtyeight.com) has unveiled a Soccer Power Index (SPI) for ESPN. Rating international teams ahead of the 2010 World Cup, Silver’s goal...

Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke left behind a suicide note, police said Wednesday, one day after the 32-year-old was hit by a train. Enke died Tuesday night when he was struck outside Hannover, where he played his club s...

Don't know about you, but I reckon the pace of the modern game just gets faster and faster. Take Nawaf Al Abed, a 21-year-old striker for Al Hilal, last Saturday. Not for Al Abed a careful, patient build-up or some cautious possession f...

Meet Arek Onyszko, everybody. He’s the goalkeeper for Danish soccer club FC Midtjylland. Or at least he was, anyway; he was recently kicked off the team after he released a book the team told him to quit working on. Also, he hates gay people li...

Torino beat Reggina 2-nil on Friday night in Serie B, a result which kept the visitors in lowly 18th position in the division being their fourth defeat in five matches. So bad is the crisis at...

When is a beard more than a beard? When it's attached to the face of an international, metrosexual heartthrob who has one of the most recognizable visages on the globe. Yes, America, it's time to beard it like David Beckham, ...

We love when blatant cheating is caught on camera, and this one from Brazil is a doozy. Unless you think nine goals in nine minutes is on the up-and-up. Dirty Tackle tracked this one down, and it's impressive for the sheer ballsiness of it. T...

While those of us in the United States have been focusing on the Balloon Boy, the folks on the other side of the pond have been obsessing about another balloon controversy: In a soccer game between Sunderland and Liverpool, Sun...

That all-Muslim amateur soccer team in Paris refused for a second time to play the all-gay team, despite saying last week that they would. Here's the result. So, just a few days after a French Muslim soccer team, Créteil Bébel, agreed to play...