It’s officially time to start looking ahead. With 2022 coming to an end, here are five things we expect to happen in world soccer in 2023. Canada wins Women’s World Cup Never before have fans enjoyed two World Cups in such quick succession. Just seven months after the completion of an enthralling men’s tournament in […]

Pele is gone but his influence lives on. One of the greatest sports stars of all time died in Sao Paulo on Thursday. He was 82 and had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. It’s impossible to condense the life of such a transcendent figure into a few statistics. But here, theScore tries to […]

With 2022 coming to a close, it’s time to celebrate the best that men’s soccer had to offer over the past 12 months of club and international action. Below, we count down the top 10 footballers of the year. 10. Neymar ?? FRANCK FIFE / AFP / Getty Club: Paris Saint-Germain | Age: 30 | […]

Just like that, the Premier League is back. theScore examines the most important developments and biggest talking points from a jam-packed slate of action in England’s top flight on Boxing Day. Nothing changes for Spurs Far too often, the absence of one or two players makes the rest of Antonio Conte’s side crumble. Rodrigo Bentancur […]

The sports photographers at Getty Images snap action shots around the world. We illuminate 22 of our favorite images they captured this year.                      San Francisco 49ers kicker Robbie Gould celebrates the last-second field goal he booted to bounce the Green Bay Packers from the playoffs. Patrick McDermott / Getty Images France rugby union winger […]

A lot of people doubted Olivier Giroud. One of the first coaches he encountered in professional football told him he’d never make it. Raymond Domenech, who coached France’s national team from 2004-10, said the country would never fall for a “big guy” like the 6-foot-4 striker. Fans booed him in a Euro 2016 tuneup match […]