Soccer is a game of grace and poetry. Look at these lithe forms, dancing around the ball, defying gravity itself with their exhilarating leaps and spins. The game is like an improvised ballet, one in ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - As soccer enthusiasts around the globe gear up for the World Cup's grand finale in Russia, the champions of a far muddier version of the game were crowned at a swamp in northern ...

BLAIRMORE, UK (CBS) -- The annualSwamp Soccer World Cup took place in Blairmore over the weekend, bringing the bizarre and dirty sport to Argyll on the prestine west coast of Scotland. What is swamp ...

HYRYNSALMI, Finland (Reuters) - Mud up to her waist and the yellow wig hanging sideways, swamp-soccer veteran Tuula Brocke reached for the ball just barely a metre in front of her, but her foot would ...

The annual Swamp Soccer World Cup took place in Blairmore, Scotland over the weekend. The game is played on a specially prepared field that's essentially a wetland area flooded to produce the swamp.

The annual swamp soccer world cup saw players this weekend fight for the ball in deep quagmires, with more than 100 teams gathered in the wetlands of central Finland. The Barron's news department was ...

Just look at swamp soccer in Hyrynsalmi, a place where Jetta can achieve a small level of celebrity over the years. Jetta is a stuffed badger ensconced in a bird cage. She acts as a mascot of sorts ...