Nadel’s work on the intersection of soccer and society has appeared in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, Remezcla, and Foreign Policy. During the 2015 Women’s World Cup he was part of Sport’s Illustrated’s Upfront and Onside team, writing on sexism, gender, and soccer. He is currently researching a book on women’s soccer in Latin America, co-written with Brenda Elsey and tentatively titled Futbolera: Women, Gender, and Soccer in Latin America, 1900-2015.