Soccer

When the World Cup soccer tournament begins Thursday, a Central Illinois congressman will see nine years of work begin to pay off.

The World Cup is among many major sporting events on Hardiman’s calendar. He was at the Kentucky Derby in May and in New York for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes. He was in Oklahoma City recently for the NBA Western Conference Finals and works a number of top-level tennis tournaments, including the U.S. Open.

Bloomington High School played host for what's believed to be the first international soccer match between FIFA member clubs in the Twin Cities — Peoria City versus Atlas from Guadalajara, Mexico.

With the demand for soccer rising nationwide, kids in Bloomington-Normal will get a new recreational league to learn the fundamentals of the sport. The Inter South Soccer Club will begin play this August for kids as young as 4, and hopes to expand to cover more age groups in the future.

The future home of the Prairie Cities Soccer League once again is up in the air.

Through an insightful new display of tradition, personal stories, and history, a Bloomington-Normal soccer club is showcasing diversity and the global connections of the sport.

The City of Bloomington gets its first look Wednesday at a proposed soccer complex.

Heartland Community College sent a school record five of its sports teams to the national finals. One of those teams won it all.

A youth soccer club plans to build a scaled-down soccer complex at the Sale Barn site in south Bloomington. Illinois Fire Juniors secretary Jeremy Kelley says the club ditched plans to build a 100-acre complex in north Normal because of rising costs and fundraising challenges during the pandemic.

Connect Transit General Manager Isaac Thorne says the service may need to use $9.1 million in federal assistance to offset a potential lack of state…