Now with dollars from FIFA, there's work underway to make sure the grass is just right for the 48 soccer teams playing in the 2026 World Cup. "The pitch is everything," said Alan Ferguson, FIFA's ...

GRASS LAKE -- After Thursday’s 8-0 district win over Jonesville, Grass Lake players circled up for a cool-down, but Warriors coach Andrew Toteff had something he needed to take care of.

O’Sullivan places his ball on the grass about 150 feet from an orange flag on a pole marking hole number 10. He steps back several paces, and with focus advances and kicks.

Nearly all soccer players prefer a high-quality natural grass surface to an artificial one. The ball can bounce and roll differently depending on the playing surface.

Founded by Tim Jahnigen, the One World Futbol Project has created a nearly-indestructible soccer ball that never needs air—and they’re distributing it throughout the world.

Here’s a fun challenge: teaching a quadrupedal robot to successfully dribble a soccer ball. It is, in essence, a core component of RoboCup, the big international competition founded all the way ...

While grass-over-turf pitches in the United States continue to receive criticism, there's hope that FIFA will see largely improved surfaces for the 2026 World Cup, but some differences will remain ...

Any soccer fanatic prefers grass over turf, even though a lot of turf fields are pretty nice.” Cameryn Susey, Olentangy Berlin forward “Turf, 100 percent.

We found the best soccer balls on Amazon, including a futsal ball, an easy-to-inflate soccer ball, ... A futsal ball is a type of soccer ball used on a hard court, not grass.

That's grass grown on strips of sod that are 1 ... Jack Judge and Bella Brasher kicked a soccer ball near a goal set up at MSU's Hancock Turfgrass Research Center on Farm Lane during an ...

A lot of behind-the-scenes work goes into re-configuring Legends Field from a baseball field to a soccer pitch and back again. Here’s how that job can be done in as little as 24 hours.