• Maher Mezahi

A new season of the African Five-a-side podcast asks, “what is the greatest match in the history of men's African football?”

• Lee Nxumalo

Gianni Infantino isn’t just another corrupt FIFA president — his greed, self-importance, and political alliances are actively ruining football.

• Nargol Aran

As Iran withstands one of its greatest existential challenges, its men's national team would be forced to carry the weight of a nation’s despair on the field.

• Charlotte Morlie

The reality of any society, any nation, and of our world, is much messier than picking a soccer team.

• Dawson McCall

The positive reactions of Africans to Morocco’s performance at the World Cup are not outliers. Sport has often challenged outsiders' view of Africa's regions as disparate and disconnected.

• Hisham Aïdi

Morocco’s World Cup heroics are forging a new, dissident Third-World solidarity, reflecting the multifaceted nature of Moroccan identity itself: simultaneously Arab, African, and Amazigh.

• William Shoki

The 2022 Men’s World Football Cup is in its knockout stages, so the Africa Is a Country podcast catches up with some of the most exciting events so far in the tournament.

• William Shoki

The 22nd FIFA Men’s World Cup, held in Qatar, is getting political. This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss the sport and the politics with Tony Karon and Sean Jacobs.

• Boima Tucker

On the last episode of our sports and music series on Africa Is a Country Radio, we visit with Sean Jacobs and Tony Karon of the Eleven Named People podcast to preview the 2022 men's World Cup football tournament.

• Afolabi Adekaiyaoja

Nigeria did not qualify for Qatar 2022. The troubles in the country's football administration reflect the crises in the nation’s political culture.

• Phokeng Setai
• Alex Richards

Why should people be invested in a football game in a bubble called the art world? “Exhibition Match,” a multifaceted installation, explores responses to this question.

• Clovis Bergère

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.

• Laurent Dubois

Is France's World Cup championship team a bellwether for France's political future?

• Grégory Pierrot

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."

• Emily Suzanne Lever

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.

• Haythem Guesmi

Fascists love Kylian Mbappé and hate Karim Benzema. Between these two lies the problem of romanticizing the French team as an African team.

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel

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.

• Damola Durosomo

Focusing on sports allegiance to Nigeria, offered a break from pondering over all of its social ills.

• Gianpaolo Baiocchi

In 1982, Reinaldo, a striker prone to making black power salutes, was left out out of Brazil's World Cup squad.

• Ron Krabill
• Danny Hoffman

Watching the World Cup with a young Nigerian professional footballer in Seattle, U.S.