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There'll be 32 national teams competing across Australia and New Zealand in the Women’s World Cup

World Cups are made for stars, and stars often are made by World Cups. The 2023 edition of the biggest tournament in women’s soccer will be no different. And it will surely produce several new household names.

LOS ANGELES — Mario Thompson knew his oldest daughter, Alyssa, was special before she started third grade.

It's Megan Rapinoe's last World Cup, and it could be Marta's, too. From winter weather to new faces to watch, here's what to know about this year's tournament in Australia and New Zealand.

SafeSport was formed to protect athletes from abuse. But the mounting number of critics who say it’s failed in its mission is reaching a critical mass

International visitors are greeted at the arrivals hall in Auckland’s airport with a display of Women’s World Cup branding, including carpeting like a soccer pitch

The U.S. women’s national soccer team goes for its third straight World Cup championship beginning Friday evening Pacific time (Saturday afternoon in Auckland, New Zealand), when it opens the 2023 tournament against Vietnam. No country has ever three-peated at the Women’s World Cup, and none has won as many as…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Thirty minutes before Lionel Messi’s practice at Inter Miami, Apple TV had studio crews in two languages ready to broadcast live. A helicopter hovered above. And among the couple of hundred media members waiting a camera panned the field as a broadcaster said, “Where more history…

LOS ANGELES — Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was in Los Angeles 10 days ago. But he wasn't checking out the hotel or scouting the training facilities ahead of his team's upcoming visit.

Heading the Ball in Soccer Linked to Increased Alzheimer's Risk, New Research Shows

It was a beatdown in Bavaria.