Former Champions League and World Cup cult heroes are among the brilliant players who are simply too good to be playing in ...

(Reuters) - Aleksei Bugayev, a former member of Russia's national soccer team who played at Euro 2004, has been killed in the 34-month-old war in Ukraine, Russian media quoted his father and agent as ...

However, one team’s participation has already been definitively ruled out: Russia. The country will be absent from the tournament due to ongoing sanctions imposed by FIFA and UEFA. The exclusion ...

The players were chosen from among the thousands of Ukrainians wounded in the war. With limbs lost to Russian attacks, they ...