EA Sports FIFA 2008 has officially hit the shelves! All stores throughout North America have received shipment of the latest FIFA edition, which has integrated the complexity and beauty of real life soccer into an engaging and interactive online sports experience.

The death of a police office in riots during a Seria A league game between Italian football clubs Palermo and Catania Calcio in Catania has halted all soccer games in the country

Hungary?s flags flew at half-mast over the weekend as the country mourned the death of one its greatest sport legends, Ferenc Puskas

US Soccer announced Bob Bradley will serve as coach of the US Soccer team until at least May, following Juergen Klinsmann`s withdrawal from consideration for the position

German soccer star has been in negotiations with the US Soccer Federation for several months

What started off as a regular football match between Paris Saint Germain (PSG) and Israeli soccer club, Hapoel Tel Aviv ended with anti-Semitic chants, hooliganism and the death of one PSG fan

It?s not every day that American players are invited to train with one of the greatest soccer teams in the world, Manchester United

US soccer fans and players joined together to mourn the untimely death of Men?s National Team Assistant Coach Glenn ?Mooch? Myernick

Even those people who aren?t soccer fans surely heard about the famous head butt in the final game of the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament, played out between Italy and France

The U.S. Soccer Player of the Year Award was given Tuesday to New England Revolution`s Clint Dempsey. The 23 year old received 237 points, ahead of Kasey Keller and Brian McBride.

After the joy and excitement for winning World Cup 2006 has died down, and the match-fixing scandal that occupied Italy is largely over, the new world champions began training again and sets new objectives for the future.

The English soccer club, Aston Villa, might be moving to American hands, as billionaire NFL owner, Randy Lerner, had bid for the club and willing to pay $118.8 million for it.

The top European team, Chelsea, with its high priced players proved to be less than adequate to match the Major League Soccer`s All-Stars team from the United States.

Most international soccer players that plan to retire at the end of a major international tournament, do so right at the end of it, but Sweden`s striker, Henrik Larsson, waited a few weeks before giving his announcement.

Zinedine Zidane is clearly one of the best soccer players of all times, and easily one of the best players that France had ever produced. Zidane led France to their glorious victory during World Cup 1998 when France won the tournament, and took France all the way to win Euro 2000 as well.

With World Cup behind us, soccer clubs from all the major leagues are starting to move on players before the start of the upcoming season.

Very few are the people in the industrialized world who haven?t heard about the World Cup, which finishes today, July 9, in a match between France and Italy. Some soccer-minded pranksters in the German capital of Berlin thought it?d be pretty funny to place cement filled soccer balls around the city and invite unwitting innocents to kick them ? likely resulting in physical injury.

This is the last weekend of World Cup 2006, and what a weekend it is! Eight teams will battle for four semifinals tickets, and it is not going to easy. The first game that takes place on June 30 will bring Argentina and Germany to face one another.

It did not take too long for peace to be disturbed, with German hooligans battling with police on Wednesday just before their team`s game against Poland.

The world`s soccer governing body is often regarded as a god with not teeth, but following last week`s FIFA Congress in Munich it seems that things might change soon.

After many eyebrows were raised and questions asked, FIFA is finally adopting a new world soccer ranking system. What got most people thinking is how come the United States is ranked at number 4, way head of world soccer powers such as French, at 8, and Argentina, at 9.

In Iran, where in accordance with the laws of Muhammad as set down in the Koran there is segregation of the sexes - and a strict dress code for women - only a tiny number of Iranian women have been allowed inside stadiums, despite a national passion for football that is shared by men and women alike in the country.

123 Argentinean soccer fans were arrested by the Buenos Aires police after 15 people were injured in an armed clash between Boca Juniors fans and fans of Rosario Central. The incident took place on one of the Argentinean highways, as reported by the police on Monday.

The 2006 World Cup is drawing nearer as the heat begins to slowly make its way into the weather forecast again. This year`s tournament is one of the most anticipated for decades, and the journey to the Finals has been a difficult one for many.

The Mental Strength Training Center has initiated a new a Sport Psychology and mental skills training program. The new program called the Mental Strength Training Program for Soccer is designed to help soccer players, coaches and parents of soccer athletes to become better leaders, athletes and teammates.

A jet carrying hundreds of Gambian soccer fans pretended it needed to make an emergency landing in Peru due to low fuel so they could watch their team compete in the FIFA Under 17 World Championship.

Poll the Nation asks what soccer fans think of the game and how their team compares, on The Big Soccer Survey.

Stardaq, the internets first real money celebrity trading exchange today introduced Soccerdaq and Sportsdaq, their dedicated markets in international sporting and English Premiership soccer stars.