Soccer fans refer to their favorite sport as “the beautiful game.”

After a stirring run to the Confederations Cup final, the best U.S. finish in a global men’s soccer event, the U.S. team returns to regional action with new faces.

BELGRADE, Serbia - Canada opened the 2009 Summer Universiade with a pair of losses on the soccer pitch Tuesday.

Portland-Seattle was a good soccer rivalry, but players from both teams were friends and not bitter enemies, former Sounders say. Sounders FC plays the Timbers on Wednesday in Portland.

The New England Revolution of Major League Soccer will take the field Tuesday night at New Britain Stadium to face the Harrisburg, Pa., City Islanders in a third-round U.S.

June 30 (Bloomberg) — The following is a roundup of soccer stories from U.K. newspapers. Samuel Eto ’o’s move to Manchester City from Barcelona is in danger of falling apart because he wants a 12.5 million-pound ($20.8 million) signing-on fee, the Sun said.

Confederations Cup NO FLUKE: “Although there is no moral victory, this is a signpost that the United States is part of soccer globalization. The U.S

Heard it with Pele.

Rethinking soccer’s place in the United States, but mostly dwelling on the greatness that is Brazil.

Former Romanian soccer star Gheorghe 'Gica' Popescu insists he was not an informant for the country's secret police in the 1980s during the regime of the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The defender was part of a Romanian team that qualified for three consecutive World Cups starting in 1990 and two European Championships.