In the World Cup qualifier between rivals Uruguay and Argentina on Tuesday night, Uruguayan and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was up to his old tricks again as he took a dive in the penalty area to earn a penalty kick for his national team. After the referee awarded the penalty to Uruguay, up stepped Suarez […]

Croatia national team coach Igor Stimac offered his resignation tonight despite his team qualifying for the World Cup playoffs. Stimac offered his resignation after Croatia lost 2-0 to Scotland at Hampden Park on the final day of the group matches in the UEFA confederation of World Cup qualifying matches. Croatia are through to the playoffs where […]

Tim Howard established himself as the United States number one right after World Cup 2006. While Kasey Keller was still in the US mix at the time, Howard was named the starter by Bob Bradley, then the interim Head Coach, a place he has retained since. Howard has generally been good for the United States […]

England, Spain, Russia and Bosnia-Herzegovina qualified for FIFA World Cup 2014 tonight, joining the teams who have already qualified — Brazil, United States of America, Australia, Japan, Iran, South Korea, Italy, Netherlands, Argentina, Costa Rica, Colombia, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany. In Europe, there's still the playoffs remaining, where the following teams will compete for a chance […]

Watch the US Men's National Team's final game of World Cup qualifying live on beIN SPORT tonight at 9:30pm ET. If you don't have beIN SPORT, no problem. You can subscribe to DishWorld for $10/month and get beIN SPORT, One World Sports (featuring Chelsea TV, Arsenal TV and Bayern Munich) and beIN SPORT Espanol via […]

World Cup dreams will be realized and destroyed today in the final day of the regular stages of the World Cup qualifying matches around the world. Teams will be battling for automatic qualification, while others will be trying to qualify for the play-offs, and other teams will be fighting for pride. In the afternoon/early evening […]

Watch Ghana vs Egypt, Noon ET, live on beIN SPORT, beIN SPORT Espanol and DishWorld. Don't be surprised if you see a ton of neutral soccer fans cheering for Egypt today in their first leg of their World Cup qualifier against Ghana. Egypt's journey through the World Cup qualifiers in the past two years has […]

Despite initial reports that Zlatan Ibrahimovic had taken a flight immediately after an UEFA Champions League game to Sarajevo, to grant a boy his dying wish to see the Swedish striker in person, those reports were dismissed by the Paris Saint-Germain press officer. Following up on that initial report, Ibrahimovic said he would see what […]

Michael Carrick is expected to start in midfield for England instead of Frank Lampard in the crunch match against Poland at Wembley (3pm ET on FOX Sports 1, for readers in the United States). In training, Carrick has been playing alongside Steven Gerrard in preparation for tonight's match. England manager Roy Hodgson is expected to […]

For a walk down memory lane, England played Poland in 1973 with The Three Lions just needing a win to qualify for the 1974 World Cup. The match, which was played at the old Wembley Stadium, will live in history because of the brilliant performance by Poland goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski who kept England from winning the […]

If you're a soccer fan in the United States, you have a mammoth 29 live World Cup qualifying matches to choose from today, many of which have massive implications on what countries will be playing in the World Cup next summer. First, if you want to watch Egypt, managed by Bob Bradley, take on Ghana […]

The live broadcast on US television of Mexico against Panama on UniMas delivered TV ratings that beat the baseball playoffs, college football and NFL in key metered markets. The match between Mexico and Panama was watched by 7.3 million people in the United States on UniMas, the Univision network. Among adults aged 18-49, the Mexico-Panama […]

The international break means no Premier League matches until Saturday. Some welcome the break, some loath it. Either way, we can all agree that it's way too long to go without seeing our favorite clubs play. We don’t have to waste this time though. The break is an excellent opportunity to analyze the statistical progress […]

Ladies and gents, we’ll be broadcasting a live episode of This Week In Soccer today (and every Monday) at 5:30pm ET/10:30pm BST. Today’s panelists are Laurence McKenna, Kartik Krishnaiyer and Richard Farley. The topics that will be discussed are: 1. Qualifying formats for the World Cup 2. Cheerleaders versus haters in terms of the way US […]

Arsenal footballers Aaron Ramsey, Per Mertesacker, Olivier Giroud and Wojciech Szczęsny recently took a break from their training session to participate in a magic trick by magician Drummond Money-Coutts. In the magic trick, which features a Citroën DS3 Cabrio, what do you think? Is it a bit of trick camera work, or is there an […]