
Algerian football success is a double-edged sword
Algeria reached the African Cup final for the first time in 29 years after defeating Nigeria. It can't be divorced from politics back home.
Algeria reached the African Cup final for the first time in 29 years after defeating Nigeria. It can't be divorced from politics back home.
The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt and football’s peculiar hold on national identity.
Egypt got knocked out in the Round of 16, but the hosts have been hamstrung by multiple events, including the military's control.
Queer identities, widely accepted on the pitch in women's football, may be the way to challenge gender norms in some societies.
Who gets to host future editions of the men's soccer World Cup is not just big business, but also a bargaining chip in international relations.
Organized US Soccer is perceived as middle class and white. Seattle, Washington wants to break with that via its professional women's team.
Is France's World Cup championship team a bellwether for France's political future?
The author, French: "When the game is over in Russia, I’ll go play another at the field down the street. I’ll find a song to sing on the way."
The 2010 World Cup was tumultuous for France; both an athletic failure and a site of social conflict. The French Football Federation doesn't want to repeat it.
Fascists love Kylian Mbappé and hate Karim Benzema. Between these two lies the problem of romanticizing the French team as an African team.
A possible French victory hovers like a thin layer of hope that barely veils the simmering anger at France’s neglect of the islands and pessimism about the future.
Focusing on sports allegiance to Nigeria, offered a break from pondering over all of its social ills.
In 1982, Reinaldo, a striker prone to making black power salutes, was left out out of Brazil's World Cup squad.
Watching the World Cup with a young Nigerian professional footballer in Seattle, U.S.
The success of Belgium's national football team as a key site for political struggles over identity, race and immigration.
en ce moment, le plus français de tous les français est un gamin noir d’origine algérienne et camerounaise nommé Kylian Mbappé.
Soccer came to Ghana with “a Jamaican educationist." That's the popular version. It's not entirely correct.
You want to troll French fascists? Tell them the truth: the most French man in the world right now is a black kid called Kylian Mbappé.
At Italia 1990, Cameroon pulled off the greatest upsets in football in the history of the World Cup--against Maradona's Argentina.
One of the weirder displays of Pan-Africanism descended on Johannesburg’s Soccer City on the evening of July 2, 2010.