Franz Beckenbauer put himself a step ahead on the soccer field by taking a step back.

Germany's World Cup-winning coach Franz Beckenbauer has died.

Lionel Messi is set to become part of the next chapter of men’s soccer in North America.

The superlatives about Pelé over the years came from the likes of Nelson Mandela and Andy Warhol.

Gerd Müller, the Bayern Munich and former West Germany soccer great known as “Der Bomber” for his scoring prowess, has died.

Announcing indictments in February, Swiss prosecutors called that “an unspecified ‘amicable agreement’” and instead imposed the incitement charge. That related to Valcke unlawfully enriching himself and not reporting it to FIFA, prosecutors said. The trial has arisen from Swiss prosecutors having access to FIFA business and staff correspondence since being i nvited in by soccer’s world body in November 2014. Russia and Qatar were picked in December 2010 by a FIFA executive committee that was later widely discredited. Still, Swiss prosecutors were criticized for waiting so long to bring the case that a statute of limitations for evidence expired.