Tag: Soccer

GOAL! Obama scores foreign policy victory through FIFA busts

Charles Hoskinson · May 29, 2015 4:01 am

Walter De Gregorio, FIFA Director of Communications and Public Affairs, addresses the media during a press conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Swiss federal prosecutors opened criminal proceedings related to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, throwing FIFA deeper into crisis only hours after seven soccer officials were arrested and 14 indicted Wednesday in a separate U.S. corruption probe. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP)

U.S. hits top FIFA officials with corruption charges

Kelly Cohen · May 27, 2015 12:16 pm

Soccer Fans Chant ‘Kill the Jews!’ in Vienna

John Rosenthal · April 6, 2015 10:45 am

The senators asked FIFA President Sepp Blatter to "strip Russia of the privilege" of hosting the World Cup. (AP Photo)Â

Senators seek to block Russia from hosting World Cup

Susan Ferrechio · April 1, 2015 3:18 pm

LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena, left, and team captain Robbie Keane present President Obama with a jersey during a ceremony to honor both the 2014 NHL Champion Los Angeles Kings and 2014 MLS Cup Champion LA Galaxy in the East Room of the White House, on Monday. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Obama honors champion Los Angeles Kings, Galaxy at White House

Brian Hughes · February 2, 2015 8:14 pm

Historic: LA Kings, Galaxy repeat champ parade to White House

Paul Bedard · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

Eight Democratic senators have intervened on behalf of female soccer players worldwide who are fighting a controversial decision by the sport's international governing body to play this year's Women's World Cup on artificial turf. (AP Photo)

Senators: No turf for female soccer players

Sean Lengell · January 16, 2015 7:09 pm

Residents of the Morro da Mineira favela play in the newly installed soccer pitch powered by player's footsteps, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. The project, sponsored by British oil giant Shell, has around 200 energy-capturing tiles installed along the width and breadth of the field and covered by a layer of AstroTurf. Working in conjunction with solar panels also installed around the field, the player-powered tiles feed electricity to a system of floodlights overhead. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Action on the field powers lights at soccer field

Jenny Barchfield · September 11, 2014 2:16 am

A man, left, walk past a Ebola awareness campaign poster, in the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Sevi Herve Gbekide )

Ebola: Ivory Coast-Sierra Leone game now in doubt

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 11:42 am

$908K for Vehicles for Biden’s World Cup Trip–On Top of $2.2M for Hotels

Jeryl Bier · August 7, 2014 11:07 am

Ukraine, Russia spar over soccer in Crimea

James Ellingworth · August 1, 2014 5:28 pm

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, right, smiles as he talks with teammates on the bench in the first half of a Guinness International Champions Cup soccer tournament match, Tuesday, July 29, 2014, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Man sues soccer star Ronaldo over ‘CR7’ trademark

Michelle Smith · July 31, 2014 7:10 pm