USWNT defender Naomi Girma has completed her move from the San Diego Wave to Chelsea and become the most expensive transfer in women’s soccer history. The...
Mike Woods is coming home, where there is so much longstanding family history. The 1986 graduate of Washington-Liberty High School (then named Washington-Lee) recently was named...
“No 7! No 7! Can we have your shirt please?” Those high-pitched cries felt like the soundtrack to the evening at a stadium on the outskirts...
A U.S. women’s national team star is about to set a world record. San Diego Wave and American international center-back Naomi Girma agreed to move to...
Mop-haired and dressed in jeans and a black-and-white striped sweater, 16-year-old Martin Odegaard looked like a student walking the streets of Madrid. But this was no...
Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday The Athletic discusses three of the biggest questions posed by the weekend’s Premier League action. During this set of...
“I got this call from Aston Villa asking if I wanted to meet the future King of England at a train station Wetherspoon’s.” No, this is...
It is 76 days since Liverpool moved back to the top of the 2024-25 Premier League table with a 2-1 home win against Brighton & Hove...
Michael Olise does not like shin pads. So much so that when the France winger was being brought on for Leroy Sane during Bayern Munich’s 1-0...
An air of desperation hung over a handful of Premier League clubs last summer. Accounting years were drawing to a close across the top division of...
