The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Mexico City on Thursday evening, but despite the tournament’s expansion from 32 ...

For some Italians, their team’s absence from the biggest tournament in soccer is a metaphor for a broader national malaise.

Italy has won the World Cup four times, but will miss the World Cup for the third straight time as it sits out the 2026 tournament.

Denied a training retreat this month, Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso has taken his World Cup preparations on the road, visiting players in Saudi Arabia, London and Milan ahead of March’s play-off. Italy ...

Italy may be a baseball country, but it has fallen far from the soccer powerhouse it once was. The Italians failed to qualify for their third straight World Cup on Tuesday after losing to Bosnia and ...

Italy's third consecutive failure to qualify for the FIFA World Cup has stunned fans across the globe, a historic drought for the four-time world champions that will now extend to at least 2030. The ...

Dino Zoff, the captain of Italy’s World Cup winning team in 1982, looks back on their unexpected path to glory in Spain ...