The World Cup runs from June 11 to July 19, and games will take place across 16 cities in the United States, Canada and ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has claimed that players who cover their mouths during verbal altercations that are racist in ...

The scope of the VAR was widened Saturday to include corner kicks and second yellow cards. Measures to speed up the game were also approved at the annual general meeting of ...

Pedro Neto became the ninth different Chelsea player to be sent off this season after incurring two quick bookings against Arsenal ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has raised the prospect of red cards being shown to players who cover their mouths when ...

“If a player covers his mouth and says something, and this has a racist consequence, then he has to be sent off, obviously,” Infantino told Sky News. “There must be a presumption that he has said ...

Legendary former referee Pierluigi Collina has had his say on a number of upcoming VAR and refereeing changes that are ...

An adjusted version of an off-field treatment rule that Lionel Messi complained about in 2024 has been adopted in time for ...

Rule changes and technological innovations have been a constant in soccer in recent years, aimed at speeding up the game and preventing referee errors that could impact match results. Ahead of the ...

Reports in Italy suggest that the International Football Association Board (IFAB) will move to change a major VAR rule in ...

Refereeing experts Luca Marelli and Graziano Cesari both agree Pierre Kalulu’s red card was ‘a very serious error’ in Inter ...

This article appears in the February 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Read more from the issue. As the World Cup takes up temporary residence in American cities this summer, FIFA has ...