Using soccer balls to refine computational fluid dynamics research methods

If you're a soccer fan, you're familiar with this common sight: A penalty kick is in place, with a "wall" of defenders lined ...

Award-Winning Slice-Of-Life Soccer Game 'Despelote' Comes To Switch This Week

One of the most unique a beautiful games of the year — despelote — is all about the beautiful game itself and the communities ...
National Geographic news

Soccer is the world's most popular sport. But who invented it?

The Brits formalized the game known globally as football—but its roots date back to ancient China and Mesoamerica. Giovanni Navaro Cornelio, 30, (left) and Arturo Sanchez, 32, play ulama in ...
Newsweek

Soccer Origins: Who Invented Football, Why and When Was the First Game?

The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is underway, with billions of people across the globe tuning in to watch the world's most popular sporting spectacle. So what are the origins of soccer—a sport which ...
Sports Illustrated

Who Invented Soccer? Tracing the Game's History

Lionel Messi and Argentina won the 2022 Qatar World Cup in one of the greatest games in soccer history / IMAGO/ActionPictures “Somebody said that football's a matter of life and death to you. I said, ...