World Cup

Down, but Not Out

Just because Brazil’s growth rates are slowing, doesn’t mean the doomsayers are right.

BY ALBERT FISHLOW | MAY 18, 2012

A Cup of Plenty?

Emerging countries deserve the World Cup, but FIFA needs to get its act together to make sure that the global showcase doesn't do more harm than good.

BY PARAG KHANNA, KARIM MAKDISI | DECEMBER 22, 2010

Uganda's War on Terror Comes Home

Somalia's radicals strike back.

BY MICHAEL WILKERSON | JULY 12, 2010

Le Scandal

The French soccer team's disaster in South Africa has exposed the superficiality of European racial integration -- and now only Germany can save France from tearing itself apart.

BY JOHN HOBERMAN | JULY 1, 2010

Off Pitch

The global political issues playing out at the World Cup.

BY BRIAN FUNG | JUNE 10, 2010

Soccer Wars

Last week's attack on the Togo national soccer team's bus in Angola resulted in the deaths of the driver, a press officer, and an assistant coach, and led to Togo's withdrawal from the Africa Cup of Nations. But the tragedy is hardly the first time that ugly political tension has invaded the beautiful game.

BY ANDREW SWIFT | JANUARY 13, 2010

Soccer Goes Glocal

BY RICHARD GIULIANOTTI | NOVEMBER 11, 2002