The region has long seen itself as distinct from its country and disinterested in the national team. Can a Euro 2024 squad studded with Basque stars turn heads? By Rory Smith Rory Smith went to Bilbao ...

Some players in Spain better identify with their Basque background. La Liga is home to a wealth of Spanish players, but not all want to play under the same flag. Many from Bilbao, Pamplona and San ...

BILBAO, Spain - Iñaki and Nico Williams, the faces of a new kind of World Cup, are inside the practice headquarters of one of ...

MADRID (AP) — A small sport popular in Spain’s northern Basque Country has stirred up a political controversy that triggered court action and fanned the region's long-held feelings of nationalism.

Football is littered with legends of the local lads come good. Glaswegians of a certain persuasion and vintage will never tire of romanticizing about Jock Stein’s marvelous Lisbon Lions — a team all ...

The Palestinian national team has never played a full international in Europe. But, on Saturday, it filled a stadium and the streets of Bilbao in a match against a Basque team keen to amplify its own ...

“The idea that began modestly in the feverish imagination of some enthusiastic members of the Basque Center is taking the dimension of an unprecedented success.” This is how the chronicler of the ...