EditorialThe soccer fields at Arnott Charlton Public School, where Canada’s World Cup Team Captain Atiba Hutchinson grew up playing, in Brampton, ON, Canada on Nov. 8, 2022. (Ian Willms/The New York Times)
EditorialYoung players on manicured fields for Generation Foot, a soccer academy and club in Déni Birame Ndao, Senegal, Nov. 2, 2022. (Carmen Abd Ali/The New York Times)
EditorialLucy Nguyen participates in a group scream at the Zionsville Youth Soccer Fields in Whitestown, Ind. on Oct. 20, 2022. (Kaiti Sullivan/The New York Times)
EditorialA soccer match at Riverside Park, where many courts and fields were going unused in the afternoon, in Manhattan, March 13, 2020. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialSquads of 11-and-under girls with Sporting Club Gj?a and Club Sporting Brooklyn play at Socceroof in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Feb. 22, 2020. (Monique Jaques/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Leyton Orient women's soccer team warm up before a game against Cambridge City in Ely, England, Jan. 13, 2020. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)