Brazil and Croatia will meet in Liverpool two weeks before their opening World Cup matches in Russia. The Brazilian Football Confederation says the warmup will be on June 3 at...

Brazil star Neymar said on Sunday he is "recovering well" from a foot injury and is on schedule to be ready for the World Cup. The Paris Saint-Germain striker had surgery in March on a cracked...

Schalke and Serbia defender Matija Nastasic has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering cruciate ligament damage to his right knee. Nastasic went off in the closing stages of...

Japan coach Akira Nishino is facing a difficult challenge by taking over from Vahid Halilhodzic with only two months to go before the World Cup. Japan fired Halilhodzic on Monday and replaced him...

Japan's surprise sacking of head coach Vahid Halilhodzic on Monday marked a fifth coaching change from Asia's five participants at the 2018 World Cup in the past nine months. Only Iran, with...

France coach Didier Deschamps has a half-billion dollar dilemma. In Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele and Paul Pogba, Deschamps has three of the top-five most expensive footballers of all time at his...

Vahid Halilhodzic has reportedly been dismissed as Japan's head coach following two disappointing international friendly matches and with the World Cup opening in just over two months. Japan's...

Tunisia's top player Youssef Msakni will miss the World Cup because of a knee ligament injury sustained while playing with his Qatari club Al-Duhail. The technically gifted attacking midfielder...

Russia's World Cup chief says international security cooperation for the tournament won't be disrupted by the tense relations with other countries following the poisoning of a former spy. More...

Portugal defensive midfielder Danilo Pereira is set to miss this summer's World Cup after injuring his left leg. Club FC Porto says Danilo has partially torn his Achilles tendon and will need to...