Thanks to the big cheeses at FIFA, the 2026 World Cup has a bunch of extra teams, extra games and, therefore, extra math. Let’s start with the simple part. There are 48 nations (rather than the ...

In an effort to get kids excited about math, the Romanian men’s soccer team recently swapped the numbers on players’ training jerseys for math equations. The players wore the jerseys ahead of a match ...

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Soccer is becoming more predictable, according to new research in the field of network science, which studies the connections in a complex network. The analysis covers over 87,000 games spanning the ...

The Romanian men’s soccer team recently took on a pair of noteworthy challenges. While it prepared for a friendly Sunday with powerhouse Spain, the squad also tried to help kids back home get excited ...