Soccer

Researchers found that soccer players who use their head to control the ball show abnormalities in their brains similar to CTE – what we used to call "punch drunk" syndrome in boxers.

Populous and Oualalou + Choi have joined forces to design an extraordinary new stadium that will take the form of a huge tent. The Grand Stade Hassan II will be located in Morocco and will be the largest soccer stadium in the world.

Saudi Arabia is bidding to host the 2034 World Cup soccer tournament. If successful, authorities plan to build a futuristic stadium within its audacious 170-km-long mirrored city in the desert, the Line.

A new training device is claimed to make you a better soccer player, even if you're practicing by yourself. It's called Voon Soccer, and it electronically assesses your performance in tens of different skill-building drills.

Researchers have found that ingesting low-dose caffeine had both positive and negative effects on the performance of young, experienced soccer players. While there are a lot of factors at play, the findings might be useful for coaches to consider.

MIT's Improbable Artificial Intelligence Lab has developed a Dexterous Ball Manipulation with a Legged Robot (DribbleBot) that can dribble a soccer ball under real-world conditions similar to those encountered by a human player.

Proponent of greenery covered architecture Stefano Boeri Architetti has revealed its design for a new soccer stadium in Milan, Italy. The ambitious project would include a park and museum, and would be filled with thousands of plants and trees.

Soccer's international governing body, FIFA, has developed semi-automated offside technology that uses AI, stadium cameras and a connected match ball to assist on-field referees with offside calls at 2022 World Cup matches in Qatar.

As the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar approaches, Spain's Fenwick Iribarren Architects has completed a novel demountable soccer stadium, named 974 Stadium, that was constructed using almost 1,000 shipping containers.

While there's no substitute for in-person soccer coaching, a coach can't be watching what every player is doing, all the time. That's where the Jogo system is made to come in, as it continuously tracks players' performance from within their shoes.

The concept of a home ground advantage, where teams play in familiar surrounds in front of their own adoring fans, is broadly accepted as having a major bearing on match-day performance, but exactly how much benefit does it bring?

Populous is putting an aeronautical spin on a soccer stadium with a €100 million renovation of the Stade de la Meinau. It will boost capacity, improve sustainability and incorporate old airplane fuselages for shading.