The last two World Cup hosts — Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022 — allowed visitors to enter their countries with a game ...

A year out from that tournament, Rothenberg had far different concerns. The U.S. didn’t have a first-division soccer league then and its national team had played in just one World Cup since 1950.

In recent decades, there has always been some sort of World Cup dress rehearsal. The Club World Cup, which starts on Saturday ...

And Rothenberg could do that because, as president of U.S. Soccer and chairman of the World Cup organizing committee, he was in charge of the entire tournament. That has changed.

A year out from that tournament, Rothenberg had far different concerns. The U.S. didn’t have a first-division soccer league then and its national team had played in just one World Cup since 1950.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has promised that international fans will be welcome at the World Cup. But Trump's immigration stance has raised questions about potential challenges for the numerous ...

The first, in 1994, was the most successful in history, setting records for average and overall attendance and returning a record $50 million profit to its organizing committee, headed by Alan ...

England fail to qualify for the World Cup in the US. Chairman of the 1994 World Cup committee Alan Rothenberg says of the lack of England fans at the tournament: "There were three countries in the ...

Since Rothenberg was elected to the council in 2023, she has made frequent use of the charter objection rule. “I certainly don’t plan on lodging one,” Rothenberg told the council on Thursday.