With the 2026 World Cup taking place in North America, the debate around whether the sport should be called football or soccer is raging once more. The modern version of football was popularised in ...

In the United States, "football" is mostly associated with a sport that is, for the most part, played with one's hands. Why does the U.S. say "soccer" instead?

Jones prefers football over soccer.

Football and fútbol are built on different foundations, both as sports and as businesses. From the way they handle commercial ...

With the World Cup in North America this year, the interest of Americans in soccer is at an all-time high. Now, some ...

American fans get mocked for saying soccer, but they didn't come up with the name.

The Corinthians Football Team of 1895, with Charles Wreford-Brown highlighted. UK National Archives / Illustration: The Athletic The word ‘soccer’ remains at the heart of one of the most enduring, if ...

Argentina's World Cup run rolls on, but off the pitch, the Argentine Football Association is facing growing scrutiny in the ...

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare had no idea that those same words would apply to one of today’s ongoing terminology rivalries stretching across the Atlantic – the ...

Brittany Mahomes reflects on her soccer roots, investing in the Kansas City Current and the lessons she's now passing on to ...

England beat Senegal 3-0 to set up a quarterfinal matchup with France. Of course the irony is the term originated in England. Soccer. A word that in the UK conjures up images of Americans playing ...