Moroccan Spanish journalist Leyla Hamed has built a career telling the human stories inside football, the world's largest sport.

The collaborative nature of World Cup songs reflects the global scale of the tournament itself.

Surely, Yavuz Ozborme’s fine-tuning of the avocado dip in a quest for continuous improvement is a metaphor for adjusting to life since he and his brother came to London and opened Buffalo Grill in Greenwich.

From New York to Toronto to Houston, immigrant communities re-create the rituals of the World Cup through food and shared traditions.

Football grounds are no longer just engineered arenas. They are designed to project cultural and national identity—and leave a legacy long after the final whistle.

Is it "football" or "soccer"? Fans of this otherwise unifying game are divided on what to call it. To avoid creating an international incident, a little historical knowledge might help.

A UK production, "Snow Brown and Her Seven Chachay," shows how the form of theater continues to absorb diverse influences without losing its familiar sense of play.

Children Learn Life Lessons Through the Joy of Football

Football may be the world’s biggest game, but it is also thousands of smaller ones—played in dusty courtyards and abandoned lots, remembered in faded photographs, argued over in cafes and sung about in many languages.

For the 2026 World Cup, as in the past, the game offers artists fertile ground, concentrating into 90 minutes a wide spectrum of human experience. 

The ball's continually refined materials and construction affect its behavior, quietly reshaping how the game is played.

Since its birth in 1863 in London, football has spread around the globe, with billions of fans who connect with the game as a source of cultural pride beyond the pitch.