It's the time of the year to nominate the best-of-the-best of the 2013/14 soccer seasons in the 2014 World Soccer Talk Awards. This year, we've expanded the Awards, making it our biggest one ever. In addition to recognizing the best talent, media and footballers in the Premier League, we're also going to focus on the […]

The soccer sticker craze has hit digital formats, highlighted last week by Manchester City’s launch of a new digital sticker album in various formats including tablets and smart phones. The album is a partnership between Manchester City and online collectible company 2STIC. Last year, Topps — a sports card manufacturer — launched interactive Premier League […]

It is easy to be cynical in the modern sports era, so it is easy to have doubts about the spontaneously wonderful viral social media campaign “We Are All Monkeys”. The campaign sprung up last weekend after a banana was thrown onto the Villarreal pitch at Barcelona’s Dani Alves. Alves picked up the banana and […]

Barcelona's 2-2 draw against Getafe on Saturday was a big blow to the Catalan giant's title hopes. Given their performances in domestic and international competition this year, FC Barcelona could use new signings to upgrade their aging core. Combine this with the impeding transfer ban that is under appeal, the club will need to act […]

Sunderland's win against Manchester United at Old Trafford coupled with heavy defeats for Fulham against Stoke (1-4) and Cardiff against Newcastle (0-3) means that both Fulham and Cardiff were relegated today, while Sunderland are just one step away from safety. After Sunderland's impressive 1-0 victory against Manchester United, Sunderland will be guaranteed safety if Chelsea […]

Newcastle United supporters staged a walkout at St James' Park today in the 69th minute against Cardiff City as a protest against owner Mike Ashley and manager Alan Pardew. In a hostile atmosphere at Newcastle's stadium, fans sang "It's never your fault," "It's our club" and "We want Pardew out," while stewards attempted to remove […]

ESPN today launched a brand-new World Cup video that focuses on how global the World Cup is, showing examples of everyday life and how soccer fans have their own opinions regarding which teams to look out for. ESPN describes the video as, "This June, no matter where you're from, everyone will be taking about the […]

Like Kobe Bryant, Andrew Luck spent part of his early childhood living in England and Germany where he grew up playing the game of soccer and became a fan of popular international teams (rooting for U.S. players) and the FIFA World Cup, along with the Houston Dynamo and that affinity for the game continues to […]

Is there any scenario that makes it acceptable to want your own team to lose? In many respects, to pomp for the opposition goes against some of the game’s core mantras: Uniting behind a cause, backing 11 men who represent the supporters through thick and thin, no matter what. But what if a win for […]

ESPN will today announce more details regarding its broadcast plans for the 2014 World Cup. The press conference featuring ESPN President John Skipper, his fellow executives and several ESPN soccer personalities kicks off at 11am ET at the Paley Center in New York City. World Soccer Talk will be there covering the news and conducting […]

It was an unforgettable match that will long go down in history as one of the most talked about World Cup games of all time. It featured three goals, but only two of them are talked about religiously. Both goals were the creation of Diego Maradona. Rather than dwelling on the controversial Hand of God […]

The following documentary examines the rivalry between two teams from Germany's region Schalke and Borussia Dortmund. When the two teams face each other, it's known as the Revierderby, or also known as the Ruhr derby. While dated, the passion demonstrated by both sets of fans in this 42-minute documentary is still relevant. While Bayern Munich […]

The halls of Sporting Club de Portugal’s academy are famed, their graduates plentiful. Over the last two decades wingers have been of consistent emergence. Luis Figo, Simao, Ricardo Quaresma, and Cristiano Ronaldo have all graduated from the academy in Alcochete, Portugal. Anyone who emerges from Sporting's academy will draw comparisons and some pressure, just ask […]

As we've seen by developments this week, Traffic Sports USA has been responsible for organizing many international soccer events and has owned the Fort Lauderdale Strikers since they joined North American Soccer League as an expansion team since 2010 but, in my opinion, Traffic does a poor job at running a local community-based professional soccer […]

Not since the 1994 and 1998 World Cups have the Super Eagles of Nigeria had a better chance of progressing to the Quarter Finals of the World Cup. Subsequent World Cups, however, were nothing to write home about. Nigeria did not even qualify for the 2006 edition held in Germany. At the turn of the […]