Once every four years, the Loup Ventures team turns into big soccer fans. We’re attracted to the spirit of the World Cup, a truly global tournament, but the purity of the game and the tournament is ...

In late April, FIFA announced that they would be adding four more referees to each soccer match. These refs won’t be running alongside players. Instead, they’ll be in a control room watching the match ...

I had to do some serious digging, translating, and all-around sleuthing to figure out that this clip of a referee pulling off one of the worst soccer dives ever comes to us from the fourth tier ...

It’s the equivalent of flopping in basketball – diving in soccer. As the sport has progressed, diving has often become more routine. When a player is in prime position to either score or make a key ...

Soccer players -- often unfairly -- get a reputation for flopping and doing so in an overdramatic manner. Chilean soccer player Jean Meneses did nothing to help soccer shake that stigma. During a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soccer players dive to gain an unfair advantage by falling to the ground and possibly faking an injury to give the impression that ...