At just 15 years old, Emma Lattus has made it into the first team of German women's Bundesliga side Cologne. DW met the forward to find out more about her path to professional soccer.

Sujan Begun came to Qatar from Bangladesh hoping to enable a bette rlife for his family. He returned in a coffin, with the circumstances of his death unclear to this day. Malcolm Bidali from Kenia came to Qatar to work - and ended up in prison. Today, he's back in Kenia and wants to help other migrant workers. Despite the attention surrounding the Soccer World Cup, change seems to be hard to come by in Qatar.

Soccer fans at the almost alcohol-free World Cup are ready to pay high prices for a beer, a few have tried to smuggle booze into stadiums but most simply accept that drinking is off limits at the first tournament in a Muslim country.

In Germany, there has been much criticism of World Cup host Qatar for discriminating against the LGBTQ community. But when it comes to soccer, is Germany a good role model?

An Egyptian man who has been manufacturing and repairing soccer balls for over 50 years talks about his passion for the craft and the sport loved by millions of Egyptians who now line up to follow the World Cup.

In his small craft shop in the leather-working neighborhood of Marrakech, Kamal Boukentar meticulously stitches a leather soccer ball as part of his family business at "La Clinique Du Ballon", French for "The Ball Clinic."

Japan's Kazuyoshi Miura continues his playing career in Portugal a month shy of his 56th birthday.

Openly homosexual players in men's football is extremely rare. The last well-known player to come out during his career was Justin Fashanu in 1990. Since then, only a handful of players have felt able to say they are gay while still playing. Why?

Ghana winger Christian Atsu's remains arrived in Accra on Sunday (February 19) a day after it was announced he had been found dead under the building where he lived in southern Turkey after last week's huge earthquake.

Police believe the perpetrators of the attack were fans of rivals Borussia Dortmund and Rot-Weiss Essen. The Schalke supporters were about to board a bus for Berlin when the violence occurred.

The Atletico Madrid forward became the third French soccer player to have his statue in the museum after Kylian Mbappe and Zinedine Zidane.

Police arrested seven people after violence erupted at a soccer match in Turkey against a team from the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, authorities said, and a pro-Kurdish party called for officials to resign over the "open racism" at the game.