U.S. Soccer Is Optimistic Fans Will Travel to Qatar
Qatar 2022 will be unusual in many ways: The first World Cup in the Middle East will take place in the middle of the regular club season and allow fans a unique…
Qatar 2022 will be unusual in many ways: The first World Cup in the Middle East will take place in the middle of the regular club season and allow fans a unique…
The draw for FIFA’s 2022 Men’s World Cup took place in Doha, Qatar, and while the immediate chatter on Friday was about the individual games next November—mark your…
In qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup with a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica, the U.S. men’s national team ensured its return to the global stage for the first time since a…
In a little less than a year, soccer fans around the world will flock to Qatar to attend the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup. The tiny gas-rich nation hopes to…
The exact infrastructure cost of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar has eluded public knowledge; outlets have reported numbers ranging from $10 billion to $300 billion…
In an effort to get more of its membership behind the idea of a biennial World Cup, global soccer’s major governing body, FIFA, invited all of its 211 members to an…
The U.S. Men’s National Team is ready to kick off its 2022 World Cup journey this week with its youngest and most expensive squad in history—even without star forward…
The economic impact that major sporting events have on host cities is often the subject of debate. For every economist who believes the Super Bowl and Final Four are…
FIFA awarded World Cup 2026 (WC26) to the United States, Canada and Mexico in June 2018. But more than 30 months later, football’s highest governing body has still yet…
Fox Sports’ decision to turn over its U.S. Open package to NBCUniversal wasn’t exactly the product of conventional wisdom—with seven years left on the USGA contract…