Madeleine Finlay sits down with Ian Sample to discuss the science behind the World Cup ...

Team Australia kicked it long from the goalkeeper. Switzerland took a slower approach and preferred short passes over long ...

In the first year of the NWSL, with staff budgets a fraction of today’s costs, teams rarely had more than an athletic trainer or two, much less a head of sports science. A decade later, staff sizes ...

Every four years, soccer fans around the world glue their eyes to LED screens as they watch their favorite teams compete against each other for the chance to win the coveted FIFA World Cup trophy.

The NWSL has a record number of active mothers rostered, 28, this season. The figure represents a shift in support and understanding around pregnancy, postpartum and parenting. The Athletic explores ...

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Sports science and exercise constitute an interdisciplinary endeavour that applies principles from physiology, biomechanics, psychology, nutrition and data science to understand and optimise human ...

Dallas will get a World Cup warm-up when the Perot Museum of Nature and Science unveils a new exhibit on the science of soccer. “Soccer: More Than a Game” will let visitors build a team, test their ...

Sarah Johnson remembers the distress with which female athletes uttered the words “anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)”. She remembers the word “epidemic” branded across newspapers and websites. But ...