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Almost 20,000 abusive social media posts were aimed at players, coaches and officials during last year's World Cup, says a
Of 20 million posts scanned by moderation software developed by Fifa and players' union Fifpro, 286,895 were hidden from public view.The biggest spike in abuse came after England's quarter-final loss to France, when Harry Kane missed a late penalty.

As Atlanta prepares for the world to descend upon the city in 2026, a Nordic-themed brewery and "eatertainment" venue are set to open Downtown over the coming year in the historic 200 Peachtree building.Backed by Atlanta hospitality firm 200 Peachtree Group, Skol Brewing Company and Valhalla Social will "address a need in the downtown area for the convention and tourism market" as the city looks forward to hosting the College Football Playoff National Championship in 2025, followed by FIFA World Cup matches in 2026.

FIFA made false claims about last year's World Cup in Qatar being carbon neutral, an advertising regulator in Switzerland said Wednesday.FIFA was not able to provide proof that the claims were accurate, the federally recognized Swiss Commission for Fairness said in its judgment into complaints filed from five countries.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino / FREDERIC J. BROWN/GettyImages Ahead of the 2026 World Cup, FIFA pulled all the stops for a dramatic unveiling of the tournament's branding this past Wednesday in Los Angeles.FIFA president Gianni Infantino and two-time World Cup winner with Brazil, Ronaldo, unveiled the Official Brand of the FIFA World Cup 26 at the iconic Griffith Observatory.

Dozens of conservative Muslims marched in Indonesia's capital on Monday to protests Israel's first-ever participation in the FIFA World Cup Under-20 in Indonesia.The world's most populous Muslim-majority nation is hosting the U-20 World Cup from May 20 to June 11 in Indonesia's six major cities.A total of 24 countries from five continents are participating, including Israel, after a two-year delay because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At its best, music can ease the barriers for empathic experience, imbuing a room full of individuals with a shared consciousness.For the superstar Malian couple Amadou and Mariam, a catalog of incantatory, relentlessly grooving tunes is fuel enough to turn just about any assembly into a writhing celebration.

Alessia Russo, Manchester United 's star forward of the last few seasons, announced on Friday that she will be leaving the club at the end of June.Manchester United has since confirmed it with a farewell tweet.Contract talks over an extension took place towards the end of the 2021/22 campaign, in which Russo established herself as a top forward in the FA Women's Super League.

Chelsea are not looking to bring forward their plans to sign France striker Christopher Nkunku, 25, from RB Leipzig in the summer, despite the season-ending injury suffered by their Albania striker Armando Broja, 21. (Fabrizio Romano, via CaughtOffside)
There is a "very real possibility" Serbia striker Dusan Vlahovic, 22, will leave Juventus in 2023, with a January exit not being ruled out.

After watching his performances in the World Cup, Real Madrid now feel it would be "worth the effort" to pursue a summer deal for Bellingham while Liverpool close in on a move for Benfica's Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez, 21.Manchester City's Norway striker Erling Haaland, 22, is no longer on Real Madrid's list of future targets with Brazilian forward Endrick, 16, having agreed to join them from Palmeiras in 2024.

Paris St-Germain are willing to make England striker Marcus Rashford one of the football's best-paid players as they put together a package to try to sign the 25-year-old, whose contract with Manchester United runs out in the summer.Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag says the club will exercise an option to extend the deals of Rashford and 23-year-old Portugal right-back Diogo Dalot until 2024 as they discuss contract extensions with the pair.

The Microsoft-branded theater in downtown Los Angeles will be no more: The L.A. Live venue owned by AEG will soon be named the Peacock Theater.How's that for spreading your feathers?The renaming officially happens July 11 and comes ahead of a pair of global sporting events kicking off in Los Angeles over the next few years: the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics.

Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentJun 12, 2023, 03:30 PM ET

CloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Turner and Club America attacker Alejandro Zendejas headline the 23-player roster that will represent the U.S. at the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup, which takes place between June 16 and July 16.

Standing in the middle of BMO Field, with 2026 World Cup graphics adorning the stadium, Jonathan Osorio could only imagine what having the men's soccer showcase in his backyard might be like."It's going to be something amazing," said the Toronto FC midfielder, who has won 62 caps for Canada and was part of John Herdman's team at last year's World Cup in Qatar.

Bayern Munich took their share of injury hits at the FIFA World Cup, but for those players who weren't a part of the tournament, the Winterpause has been an opportunity to put in extra work behind the scenes and away from the normal pressures of game weeks.One such player, seventeen-year-old Mathys Tel, could be poised to make a big leap for the second half of his first season in Bavaria.

Hours ahead of puck drop between the Florida Panthers and Vegas Golden Knights, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman held his annual press conference before the start of the 2023 Stanley Cup Final.While meeting with reporters, Bettman announced that the 2024 Stadium Series would feature two outdoor games on consecutive days and feature four Metropolitan and geographical rivals playing at MetLife Stadium.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino, right, and Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo chat as they arrives for a ceremony unveiling the official branding for the 2026 World Cup on Wednesday at the Griffith Observatory.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) FIFA president Gianni Infantino arrives for a ceremony unveiling the official branding for the 2026 World Cup on Wednesday at the Griffith Observatory.

Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentMay 18, 2023, 12:03 AM ET

CloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.LOS ANGELES - FIFA announced the logo and branding for the 2026 World Cup on Wednesday, with the slogan "WE ARE 26".The logo is simple in its design, with the World Cup trophy superimposed on a white number 26 with the "2" stacked on top of the "6".

NOW HIRING: A mayor of Johannesburg.DUTIES: Managing fickle governing partners.Dodging insults from opposition parties.And cleaning up piles of garbage.LENGTH OF TERM: Likely very short.This was once a city of dreamers, a gold town that seduced prospectors from all over hoping to strike it rich.Lately, though, Johannesburg has been something of a political punchline, a metropolis where many residents' spirits are as dark as the streetlights.

Manchester United and Argentina starlet Alejandro Garnacho has agreed to a contract extension with the club, signing a deal that will keep him at Old Trafford through 2028.The young forward has five goals and six assists from 31 appearances in all competitions this season, and shows a lot of promise going forward.

Lucas Hernandez has been out of action for almost four months now since sustaining an injury in the group stage of the FIFA World Cup when France played Australia on November 22. Since then, he has not played in the Bundesliga or the Champions League and has been working on getting back to action for Bayern Munich.

Almost as anticipated as the announcement of the host city for any Fifa World Cup is the reveal of a new logo.This week, the design for the 2026 Fifa World Cup in United States, Mexico and Canada was revealed - and fans are already declaring it an own goal.Unveiled to much fanfare at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, the new design is somewhat, er, simple.

When the World Cup comes around every four years, the festival of football ensures that the beautiful game penetrates all corners of the globe.It's a time of joyous celebration and so any branding for the showpiece event should reflect that.Unfortunately, as far as the 2026 World Cup is concerned, the game's governing body, FIFA, don't appear to have received the memo this time round.

If there was any doubt about whether we were in an advertising recession, Q4 media earnings solidified those suspicions.Execs from the biggest media giants all cited a challenging macroeconomic environment affecting their ad businesses, and the numbers proved it.But the pain isn't being felt across all the ad channels.

4:00 PM GMT Paul Pogba has been dropped by Juventus for disciplinary reasons / Danilo Di Giovanni/GettyImages Paul Pogba is understood to have been left out of Juventus' squad to face Frieburg in the Europa League after reporting late for training.The Frenchman returned to Turin on a free transfer last summer, six years after he departed for Manchester United in a deal worth 89m, but has made just two appearances this season because of a raft of injury problems.

London studio Zaha Hadid Architects has created a series of tent-like classrooms for displaced communities, which were designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher.One of the last structures designed by Hadid, the tents were created by Zaha Hadid Architects ( ZHA) in collaboration with non-profit Education Above All Foundation ( EAA) as schools and health clinics for displaced populations throughout the Middle East.

The 2026 World Cup will maintain the four-team group stage format rather than change to three, FIFA has confirmed.With the next iteration of the tournament in the United States, Mexico and Canada seeing the number of competing teams increase from 32 to 48, the intention had been to have 16 groups of three teams.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is set to go through a large format change.The tournament, co-hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, will feature 48 teams, 16 more than the current 32.The slots are as follows: 8 from Asia, 9 from Africa, 6 from North and Central America, 6 from South America, 1 from Oceania, 16 from Europe, and 2 playoff slots.

The 2026 World Cup will have 104 matches instead of the traditional 64 games due to the expanded format with 48 teams taking part, global soccer governing body FIFA said on Tuesday.The 2026 edition, which will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, will be the first edition of the quadrennial tournament where 48 teams are taking part.

Fifa has switched the format for the expanded 2026 World Cup back to four-team groups.The competition in the United States, Mexico and Canada was due to feature 16 groups of three because the number of teams is increasing from 32 to 48.But the success of the four-team format at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar caused the governing body to reconsider.

Bayern Munich are making themselves known in the United States because they have now entered into a partnership with an American club.The Bavarians are known for their partnerships with NFL clubs (with the Allianz still reeling from the bad replacement turf ever since the NFL hosted a game there), but are now venturing into American soccer because they've now teamed up with LAFC.

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Jeff CarlisleU.S. soccer correspondent

CloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.CONCACAF announced that it has revamped the formats for its senior men's national team competitions to be held between 2023 and 2026.This includes the CONCACAF Nations League, as well as qualifying for the 2024 Copa America and the 2026 World Cup.

The Canadian men's national soccer team has officially qualified for the 2026 FIFA men's World Cup.Soccer's international governing body confirmed that Canada along with the U.S. and Mexico have secured automatic berths as co-hosts of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.The marquee event set to begin on June 3, 2026 and conclude on July 8, 2026 will have 16 cities across the three countries host games, which includes Toronto and Vancouver.

The Qatar Controversy- Keva Bush, Surbiton High School (Image: Unsplash) This years FIFA has created a lot of controversy with fans and athletes alike.Here is why: On its official website FIFA claims that it embraces its responsibility to respect human rights across its operations and relationships'.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has accused his successor Gianni Infantino of disrespect, while lambasting plans to expand the World Cup.The Qatar 2022 edition of football's flagship tournament is the last to feature its current 32-team format, with 48 nations set to take part at the 2026 event.Infantino has pushed for expansion since he replaced Blatter as the head of FIFA and has explored moving the World Cup to either a biennial or triennial cycle.

Morocco's national soccer team is set to return home Tuesday after accomplishing the seemingly impossible feat of finishing fourth at the World Cup in Qatar.Tens of thousands of Moroccans were expected to turn out to greet the players.As the first African or Arab team to reach the World Cup semifinals, the Moroccan team, known as the Atlas Lions, made history and was one of the big success stories of this year's tournament, the first hosted by an Arab nation.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has announced an expanded Club World Cup competition which will involve 32 teams from 2025.The head of Fifa had planned an expansion of the competition in late 2017 - set to be played in China in 2021 with 24 teams - but the tournament was postponed due to scheduling issues caused by the Covid pandemic.

There are concerns that this World Cup's timing could have a greater psychological impact on players compared to previous ones.TOLGA BOZOGLU/ EPA
For the first time, we have witnessed a mid-season men's football world cup.As Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp put it, this is going to be a "really long season" for players.