List of Sports articles
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AFP/Getty Images I Thought Xi Liked Sports
China's soccer-mad president is heading to Brazil. Why is he skipping the World Cup final?
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Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty Images Pragmatism Is the New Orange
As a football team and as a people, the Dutch have replaced style with staying power.
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Juan Mabromata / AFP / Getty Images Don’t Win for Me Argentina
The Argentine government’s exploitation of football would make a World Cup victory bittersweet.
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Yuri Cortez / AFP / Getty Images Human Rights Hypocrisy
If chants and protests in Brazil left egg on FIFA’s face, Russia and Qatar are cooking up an omelet.
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Jamie McDonald / Getty Images Sport Bye-Bye, Brazil
Brazil’s stunning exit from the World Cup brings its other problems back into focus.
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Pedro Armestre / AFP / Getty Images The Star Who Never Played at the World Cup
Alfredo Di Stéfano was a man without a country who may have played for three.
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Philippe Huguen / AFP / Getty Images What Happened to Picardía?
Argentina has made it to the semifinals of the World Cup without its usual tricks.
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Eitan Abramovich / AFP / Getty Images It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses a Vertebra
Neymar’s injury shows what happens when soccer enters a bad equilibrium.
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Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP / Getty Images Blame the Foreigner
In soccer, as in politics, plenty of Russians think the root of all evil lies in the West.
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Phil Walter / Getty Images Sport A Game Rigged From the Top Down
Match-fixing by soccer players is the least of the sport’s problems.
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Douglas Magno / AFP / Getty Images Brazilian Soccer Takes a Tumble
Failure in this year’s biggest club competition shows money isn’t everything.
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Martin Bureau / AFP / Getty Images Why Is This World Cup So Awesome?
Hint: It’s the goals. But that's not the whole story.
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Patrik Stollarz / AFP / Getty Images How the Pivot to Asia Could Ruin American Soccer
German-Americans raised on U.S. bases in soccer’s Fatherland have carried the team to the Round of 16. Can our Asian allies really produce the soccer stars of tomorrow?
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AFP / Getty Images Argentina’s Soccer Is More Coherent Than Its Politics
Want to find out what an Argentine politician stands for? Ask him about soccer.
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Miguel Rojo / AFP / Getty Images It’s Okay to Have Mixed Feelings About Luis Suárez
Just like in politics and law, saying otherwise won’t do anyone any good.
