This is the third in a series on The Athletic looking back at the winners of each World Cup, from Uruguay in 1930 through to ...

Soccer legend Zinedine Zidane shared his belief on who should have claimed the 2010 Ballon d’Or, a year when Lionel Messi ...

More than the negative result, as Argentina qualified for the World Cup earlier in the day and then beat them convincingly, Brazil were defeated also for the way they played, as the team coached by ...

Zinedine Zidane has voiced his disagreement with a past Ballon d'Or decision, arguing that a certain player was unfairly ...

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin started the World Cup slalom season with a win. She closed it out the exact same way. In between, a serious crash in the giant slalom, a difficult ...

Veteran player Onkar Singh aspires for another World Cup win in 2026. Confident in the current team's potential, he believes they can replicate the 1975 triumph. Singh and other former players ...

World Cup 2026 could be soccer’s tipping point in America, outshining 1994’s legacy or the 3rd place finish in 1930. But for ...

From Mats Hummels and Marco Reus at Borussia Dortmund to Emre Can at Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp has coached some exceptional ...

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Mikaela Shiffrin started the World Cup slalom season with a win. She closed it out the exact same way. In between, a serious crash in the giant slalom, a difficult recovery ...

Lionel Messi admitted he was "as surprised as anyone" when he won the Ballon d'Or ahead of his then-Barcelona teammates.

Instead, Iniesta's Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi collected the second of his eight Ballon d'Or trophies that year. Messi was already considered the best in the world, then, by the time Gerrard ...