Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo controls the ball during the group B match between Portugal and Spain at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia, June 15, 2018. This one ...

The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament contested by men's national teams that took place between June 14 and July 15, 2018 in Russia. The national team of Brazil has won ...

While many are good, the World Cup certainly hasn’t been without the occasional controversial or eye-watering design. “It’s a subjective thing, football shirts. Some people look at something ...

By Scott Roxborough The 2018 World Cup, soccer’s premiere tournament, was supposed to be a disaster. Scandal — corruption allegations against FIFA, soccer’s global governing body ...

Soccer’s biggest spectacle ... In early 2008, he debuted with the national team at age 17. In the 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign, Hazard scored six goals in eight appearances.

LONDON and DOHA -- The first soccer World Cup ever to be held ... and the previous World Cup hosts in 2018, Russia, have also hosted the Winter Olympics, even after a series of diplomatic crises ...

Forty-four years had passed since the World Cup was staged on English soil. By 2018 it would be 52 years. Even Blatter had expressed an apparent belief that “the motherland of football” was ...