MLS Cup 2025 playoff bracket: Full postseason schedule, updated results
MLS’s 2025 playoffs paused for the November FIFA international break, but they returned with a bang. Son Heung-min’s…
MLS owners vote to flip schedule to European calendar, change format starting in 2027
PALM BEACH, Fla. — MLS owners officially voted Thursday to flip the league’s calendar to begin in mid-July…
Club World Cup is not a glorious new era for football, whatever Gianni Infantino tries to tell us
Gianni Infantino has no doubt about it. This Club World Cup, the FIFA president says, represents a “new…
Europe asserts itself as Club World Cup threatens to reinforce football’s established order
Filipe Luis had staked his hopes on the right mix of European thought and Brazilian heart. Speaking in…
Lionel Messi has made Miami America’s new soccer capital. Will it last?
In Scarface, Tony Montana is driving through Miami on a balmy summer night, top down, his car upholstered…
Forget the football – this is why the Club World Cup really matters
FIFA gave its 32 competing teams a billion reasons to take a revamped Club World Cup seriously when…
‘Strange’ to play in front of 50,000 empty seats: Chelsea’s Maresca | National
Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca labelled the atmosphere in his team’s opening Club World Cup game on Monday “strange”…
World Cup 2026, one year to go: What still needs to be sorted?
The men’s World Cup is one year away and 13 nations — including its host countries the United…
Playoffs in European football should come with ‘buyer beware’ warning
So, are copies of “Moneyball” that hard to find in France? That was one of my first thoughts…
How the Club World Cup could stretch football’s elite – including Lionel Messi – to breaking point
Even Lionel Messi will not have known a fortnight quite like it. The man commonly hailed as the…