Former Brazil goalkeeper Waldir Peres, a member of three World Cup teams, died on Sunday at the age of 66 after a heart attack. His death was announced by his family. Peres was having lunch with friends in the city of Mogi Mirim in Sao ...
Nao Kodaira secured her second overall World Cup speedskating title in the women's 500 meters with a race to spare at the final event of the season on Saturday. Kodaira, who became the first Japanese woman to win the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships last ...
The desert state of Qatar recorded the lowest ever temperature in the country's history Sunday — just 1.5 degrees Celsius — according to a statement posted online by state media. Abu Samra weather station in the southwest of the country recorded the temperature, equivalent to ...
The Asian Football Confederation said Wednesday that the continent deserves to be among the chief recipients of extra World Cup places following FIFA's decision to expand the event to 48 teams. All confederations will be eager to capture as many as possible of the extra ...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Saturday claimed there are "no down sides" to expanding the World Cup to 48 teams and "no taboos" in discussing changes to soccer's flagship competition. Infantino has proposed increasing the number of teams at the World Cup from the current ...
Japan's bid to reach a sixth straight World Cup suffered a damaging early blow with a 2-1 defeat to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday night. Japan, playing its first game of the final round of Asian qualifiers for Russia 2018, took an 11th-minute lead ...
Insisting "everyone needs money," Pele took a lingering look at a lifetime of medals, trinkets and memorabilia that auctioneers hope will generate around $7 million. Everything from a replica of the World Cup — a 1970 gift from FIFA after winning the soccer showpiece for ...
Manchester United's hopes of Champions League soccer took a hit on Tuesday in a 3-2 defeat at West Ham that followed an attack on the visiting team's bus as it arrived for the match. Objects were thrown as the bus reached the stadium for West ...
World Cup winner Luca Toni says he will retire after Sunday's match against Serie A champion Juventus. The 38-year-old Hellas Verona striker says "this has been the worst year of my career. Maybe I wouldn't stop if we had had a good season." Verona is in ...
While acknowledging for the first time that votes were bought in past World Cup hosting contests, FIFA is seeking to claim "tens of millions of dollars" in bribe money seized by U.S. federal prosecutors. FIFA submitted a 22-page claim to the U.S. Attorney's Office in ...
Lindsey Vonn was incensed after losing her ski and the World Cup lead in a tricky downhill Friday, frustrated and fuming over her equipment "My ski came off," she said, underlining her anger with an expletive. Swiss rival Lara Gut won and moved 13 points ahead ...
Norway keeps racing toward a historically successful World Cup season. Kjetil Jansrud edged teammate Aksel Lund Svindal to win a combined event that favored downhill racers on Friday, needing an acrobatic recovery to avoid a near wipeout in the final slalom section to win by ...
