Franz Beckenbauer, ‘Der Kaiser’ of World Soccer, Dies at 78 In West Germany, he revolutionized his central defense position and was one of only three people to win the World Cup as a player and a coach.
Bobby Charlton, an England Soccer World Cup and Manchester United Icon, Dies at 86 The England and Manchester United icon, who won the World Cup in 1966 and the European Cup in 1968, was one of the game’s best-loved figures.
Spain’s Soccer Federation Forces Reckoning With Sexism The nonconsensual kiss that Luis Rubiales, the president of Spain’s soccer federation, pressed on Jennifer Hermoso has come to embody the generational fault line between a culture of machismo and more recent progressivism.
Norway’s Lise Klaveness Is Calling Out FIFA From the Inside Lise Klaveness is a rarity in soccer: a woman leading a national federation. But in pointing out her sport’s failures, she has made powerful enemies.
How Julie Ertz, a New Mother, Hustled Back to the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Ertz, a two-time World Cup winner, knew she had to hustle to return to the national team after having a baby. A boys’ team offered a helping hand.