An American is headed to the Copa America semifinal, but he doesn’t play for the U.S. men’s national team. He coaches Canada. In what was one...
Jesse Marsch couldn’t help but chuckle. After Canada’s grinding 0-0 draw with Chile in their third and final Copa America group game, the new head coach...
One of the wonderful things about international football is discovering more about other nations’ identities through their style of football. If you read the seminal book...
Welcome to the 10th edition of The Athletic’s Friday quiz question. At the end of every week, we’ll serve up a poser from our vault of...
Something doesn’t look quite right. It feels as though there’s a lack of space and that players are on top of one another in wide areas...
Spain have named their 22-player men’s football training squad for the 2024 Olympics, with Barcelona’s 17-year-old Pau Cubarsi among those included. Midfielders Fermin Lopez and Alex...
Berlin is united by football. Cologne is united by football. Dortmund is… you get the idea. “United by football” has been Germany’s tagline for Euro 2024...
Appearance one came in March 2006 in a friendly against Argentina in Switzerland. Tony Blair was the UK Prime Minister, George W. Bush the president of...
Euro 2024 has two home teams. One of them is Germany. As the detail-focused among you will have noticed, that’s because the tournament is being hosted...
Sign up for The Athletic today with our limited-time Tournament Sale offer. Viktor Orban could not have been clearer. “Today, we have a national team that...
As the days tick down to the beginning of Euro 2024 and this summer’s Copa America, some preliminary squads are already being announced for next month’s...
Czech Republic have a new manager and Euro 2020 star Patrik Schick — but otherwise, firepower is in short supply. Expect pragmatism in the extreme… The...