The new National Stadium being built for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be used exclusively for team ball sports like soccer and rugby after the games, sources told Kyodo News on Tuesday. Government officials, the sources said, are finalizing plans to build seats on top ...
Soccer star Keisuke Honda has caused a stir on social media with an impassioned "motivational" tweet he posted in response to a news report about Tuesday's government white paper on suicide. The annual report showed the number of suicides declining in 2016 to the lowest ...
Three explosions went off near the team bus of Borussia Dortmund, one of Germany's top soccer clubs, as it set off for a Champions League quarterfinal match on Tuesday evening. One of Dortmund's players was injured. The bus was carrying Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa's team ...
A Brazilian soccer club brushed aside a storm of criticism Tuesday to sign a goalkeeper convicted for murdering his girlfriend, whose body was fed to the dogs. Bruno Fernandes, 32, was presented before reporters at a hastily arranged news conference in the southeastern city of ...
The Brazilian town of Chapeco, its streets wet with drizzle and buildings draped in the green of its devastated soccer club, prepared Saturday to receive the bodies of victims of an air crash in Colombia that killed 71 people and wiped out the team. Monday's ...
The football world is in mourning after a charter plane carrying Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense to the biggest game in its history crashed in the Colombian mountains after an electrical fault, killing 75 people on board, authorities said on Tuesday. Colombia's worst air disaster in ...
The base for the cleanup of the Fukushima nuclear plant that suffered core meltdowns in 2011 will be returned by March to its original use: the training camp for the Japanese national soccer team. In a symbolic step in the struggle to contain one of ...
Japan's quest for its first Olympic medal in men's soccer since Mexico City in 1968 will continue for another four years to Tokyo after being eliminated from the Rio Games on Wednesday. Japan dominated Sweden 1-0 in its final Group B game for its first ...
Olivia the parrot, one of several soccer psychics from the animal kingdom, predicted on Thursday that Japan's men's soccer team will win its opening match against Nigeria at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on the same day in Manaus, Brazil. Olivia, a gray parrot kept ...
Argentina's Lionel Messi proves once again he deserves his reputation as one of the three greatest soccer players of all time.
Caught in a real-life win-or-lose challenge, soccer forward Alan Pulido overpowered a kidnapper, freed himself and then called police for help — a dramatic tale that shows how tough the professional player is, or how incompetent his abductors were. One thing the story does show ...
Mexican authorities rescued kidnapped soccer player Alan Pulido after he was able to dial an emergency phone number and alert authorities to his location, a state prosecutor said Monday. Tamaulipas state Attorney General Ismael Quintanilla said in a news conference that a bungle by the ...
