Many leagues around the world, fueled by the fear of fading TV money, are thinking about playing games behind closed doors with quarantined athletes. As Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a recent interview, “[p]ut [athletes] in big hotels, wherever you want to play, keep them very well surveilled and have them tested every week and […]

For some reason, there is a lack of quality fictional literature centered around soccer. As the top 20 soccer books list shows, the overwhelming majority of the best soccer books are nonfiction, and even the best one (The Damned United, don’t @ me) is heavily reliant on an actual event. As the World Soccer Talk […]

There's no doubt that ever since NBC won the U.S. media rights to the Premier League in 2013, they've done an excellent job in covering the world's most popular league in a multitude of ways. Whether it was through their studio shows, podcasts and documentaries, they've always provided a unique inside look into what makes […]

Yes, soccer fans. There is still live soccer being played, and it's now available for viewing in the United States. For fans craving the ability to watch live soccer games, the Belarusian Football Federation has begun streaming live matches from the Belarusian Premier League on YouTube. Previously, the games livestreamed via the league's website were […]

The 2018/19 Bundesliga season for Borussia Dortmund was one to remember. Although they came short of the title, their season was compelling enough to be documented with a television series. The four-part Amazon Prime documentary series, directed by German filmmaker Aljoscha Pause, starts during Dortmund’s winter training camp in Spain in January 2019. At this […]

As video game systems have progressed and technology continues to advance, many people assume that the games will continue to improve. Unfortunately, that’s not the case when it comes to sports video games. The career mode is my favorite feature in the FIFA video game series. It allows players to either compete as a manager […]

FOX Sports soccer analyst Ian Joy has announced that he will be leaving the network at the end of the 2019/20 Bundesliga season, World Soccer Talk has learned. “I’m excited for what is next,” Joy, who’s leaving his FOX job after five years at the network, told World Soccer Talk in an interview. "I've had […]

In compiling this feature on the top 20 soccer book recommendations, I realized that one of the privileges I’ve had over the years is to review books for World Soccer Talk. And the number of books I’ve read has shown me that the market for really good soccer reading has increased. I've created my list […]

Amazon Prime Video recently made available many of the official FIFA World Cup films that capture one of the greatest-ever golden periods of world soccer. Currently, with many soccer leagues shut down across much of the world, I rewatched the official films from the 1978 World Cup (hosted in Argentina) as well as 1982 (hosted […]

The soccer world ground to a halt this past weekend as fears about the coronavirus threat shut down European and American sport. Prior to the suspensions and cancellations of events, we had a full matchday of UEFA Champions League and the fallout from the US Soccer’s continued stumbles. It was a week like no other […]

Club Deportivo Guadalajara, better known as Chivas, will make their triumphant return to US television Saturday night for their home game against Monterrey. The surprising news is that TUDN, ESPN Deportes and FOX Deportes will all combine to broadcast tonight's highly-anticipated game that kicks off at 11PM ET/9PM CT. According to a source, the rights […]

The coronavirus is a serious issue, but soccer fans in the United States will now get more live coverage of Sky Sports News on NBCSN than ever before. Beginning Monday, NBCSN will extend the live coverage of Sky Sports News on weekdays to between four and six hours as a direct result of needing to […]

Grant Wahl at FOX Soccer never allowed the reporter to be overly critical of the US Soccer Federation. Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl has gone from US Soccer Federation insider to critic in a short span of time. Wahl’s evolution reflects the changing attitudes of the soccer media in the United States towards the USSF. […]

The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) has announced landmark, multi-year media rights agreements, in which CBS Sports and Twitch have acquired the rights to exclusively present all NWSL matches for the next three years, beginning with the upcoming 2020 season. CBS Sports will deliver a total of 87 NWSL matches in 2020 across CBS, CBS […]

Concerns over the spread of coronavirus have continued to grow over the past few days and it is a trend that looks set to continue for the foreseeable future. The number of people killed worldwide by the coronavirus is now more than 3,000, with every continent expect Antarctica affected by the outbreak. With no specific […]