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Everton Sale Stalls Amid New Questions About 777 Partners

The U.S. firm bidding for the Premier League club, 777 Partners, has failed to provide required information to a British regulator.

Everton, 777 and the Business of Premier League Soccer

777 Partners had been scooping up big-name soccer teams for two years when it bid for Everton. Doubts about its finances could kill the deal.

2026 World Cup: FIFA Delays Have Cities Worried About Planning

With about 1,000 days until the opening game of soccer’s showcase event, U.S. organizers are waiting for answers, and action, from the sport’s governing body.

Australian TV Deal Has World Cup Viewers Asking: Where Are the Games?

When FIFA sold Australia’s World Cup broadcast rights to a streaming service, it made it harder for casual fans to find the matches.

Norway’s Lise Klaveness Is Calling Out FIFA From the Inside

Lise Klaveness is a rarity in soccer: a woman leading a national federation. But in pointing out her sport’s failures, she has made powerful enemies.

Can This Man Fix France’s Women’s Team?

Hervé Renard has led two men’s teams to the World Cup. But in taking over his country’s talented but troubled women’s squad, he may have...

PSG Says Kylian Mbappé Must Sign New Deal or Leave

Nasser al-Khelaifi, the president of Paris St.-Germain, was introducing the team’s new coach when he turned to tough talk on the future of his team’s...

P.S.G. Attack, Still a Mystery, Ended Two Women’s World Cup Dreams

An assault case that rattled one of France’s best soccer teams remains unresolved despite a series of arrests. Its main characters have paid a heavy...

Women’s World Cup: FIFA May Allow Rainbow Armbands

Captains could be offered choices reflecting anti-discrimination efforts and at least one design that was banned at the men’s World Cup in Qatar.