See game-by-game results, scores and updated brackets for the 2026 Iowa high school girls soccer state tournament.

(Corrects name of agency to U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the fourth paragraph) June 8 (Reuters) - The United States denied entry over the weekend to soccer referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who had been expected to be the first Somali to officiate at a World Cup match.

All of the pretournament noise will be drowned out by events on the pitch when the 2026 World Cup finally -- finally! -- kicks off on Thursday.

In squeaky bum time, the false 9 pulled off a nutmeg and scored a worldie in the top bin. Make any sense? Soccer fans from across the globe are heading to North America for the World Cup — and bringing with them their own vocabulary to describe the beautiful game.

The World Cup is a logistical highwire act for the man in charge of scheduling flights at American.

Fans partied in the parking lot of the DoubleTree by Hilton in Lawrence Sunday as they awaited the arrival of World Cup participant Algeria.

As the 2026 Men's FIFA World Cup approaches, local artist Joseph Veazey and collaborator Gavin Guidry unveil the hand-illustrated 'Atlanta Soccer Map.'

Manager Ronald Koeman announced his 26-man squad for the 2026 World Cup on 27 May, with a largely European-based core of battle-hardened top-flight talent. For the prediction market traders, studying this roster is an exercise in evaluating a tremendously high floor with a few lingering questions in the final third.