Tag: Soccer

Soccer is far superior to football in its service of fitness. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Beltway Confidential

Soccer is way better than football, it isn’t even close

Tom Rogan · June 8, 2017 9:43 pm

Police officers and rescue workers search for survivors around the wreckage of a chartered airplane that crashed in La Union, a mountainous area outside Medellin, Colombia. The plane was carrying the Brazilian first division soccer club Chapecoense team that was on its way for a match. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

76 dead, 5 injured in plane crash carrying Brazilian soccer team

Kyle Feldscher · November 29, 2016 1:47 pm

Red Alert Politics

FIFA declares racism is over, ends “Say No to Racism” campaign

Siraj Hashmi · September 26, 2016 4:25 am

"The fight that we used to think about, you know air land and sea, and under the sea, is now expanded to space, to cyber and the information domain," Robert Neller said. (AP Photo)

National Security

Top Marine general: We like football, they play soccer

Jamie McIntyre · August 9, 2016 3:31 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry tweeted on Tuesday that he's been practicing his soccer skills. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Kerry recycles old soccer tweet for Rio games

Pete Kasperowicz · August 2, 2016 5:27 pm

Brexit, Euro 2016, and the Past and Future of Europe

Lee Smith · June 27, 2016 7:00 pm

"I think a co-hosted World Cup with Mexico would be trickier if Secretary Clinton isn't in the White House," Gulati said Tuesday(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Beltway Confidential

How Trump threatens U.S. soccer’s success

Jason Russell · June 8, 2016 4:34 pm

Beltway Confidential

Four major problems with Vox’s ‘wage gap’ explainer

Ashe Schow · May 10, 2016 7:19 pm

Watch: Argentine TV uses Trump wall comments in ad promoting Copa America soccer tournament

Kelly Cohen · May 3, 2016 1:58 pm

Both Leicester City Football Club and Donald Trump have faced impossible odds. They've both mounted nontraditional campaigns. Now, it looks like both will triumph. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)

Beltway Confidential

What does Trump’s rise have to do with English soccer?

Jason Russell · April 28, 2016 2:50 pm

‘You will not escape’: Justice cracks down on soccer league

Kelly Cohen · December 3, 2015 11:10 pm

Swiss police carried out raids early Thursday in Zurich, Switzerland, against FIFA officials in connection with corruption investigations, the football's international governing body said. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP/File)

Two top FIFA officials arrested over bribes

Kelly Cohen · December 3, 2015 1:46 pm