The managing director of football for Tottenham Hotspur, Fabio Paratici, who has been banned by FIFA for his role in transfer deals and finances while he was at former club Juventus, has appealed after FIFA extended the ban to apply globally last month. The reason for the ban was because of his role in transfer […]
Before Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg, Real Madrid head coach Carlo Ancelotti urged Frank Lampard to succeed as Chelsea manager and ruled out a return. After Lampard was named Chelsea’s interim manager, Ancelotti will face his former player at the Santiago Bernabeu in the midweek match. After a string of disappointing results, Chelsea slid […]
No spectators were present when the Indonesian soccer match that resulted in one of the worst stadium stampedes in history last year began on Tuesday night, according to officials. The last time fierce rivals Persebaya and Arema FC faced off was in October 2022, and that game ended in a crush that claimed 135 lives. […]
The absence of numerous first-choice players has provided a “massive opportunity” for others to establish a claim in Canada’s World Cup squad, according to head coach Bev Priestman as the Olympic champions prepare to face France on Tuesday. Desiree Scott, Quinn, and star forward Janine Beckie, who was ruled out of the quadrennial tournament after […]
In spite of being held to a scoreless draw by mid-table Girona in their Catalan derby at Camp Nou on Monday, Barcelona increased their lead at the top of LaLiga to 13 points. In what was a generally lackluster effort by the home team, Barcelona came the closest to scoring when Ronald Araujo’s first-half shot […]
According to manager Thomas Tuchel, Bayern Munich will be underdogs when they play Manchester City in the first leg of their quarterfinal Champions League matchup on Tuesday at Etihad Stadium. The German manager will be trying to pull off another win against City having led his old club Chelsea to the Champions League title with […]
Leicester City fired Brendan Rodgers and named Dean Smith as caretaker manager until the end of the season. The Premier League club announced on Monday that Rodgers had been replaced by Smith. Smith takes over for Rodgers, who left the club earlier this month on good terms, when the team was second-last in the table […]
Inter Milan enter into Tuesday’s Champions League quarterfinal against Benfica without a win in six matches across all competitions, and manager Simone Inzaghi has criticized striker Romelu Lukaku for a series of squandered chances. As a result of the Belgian’s poor finishing, the club dropped two critical points in the last 10 days in Serie […]
Australia and New Zealand kicked off the 100-day countdown to the Women’s World Cup by calling for equality between men and women in sports and encouraging fans to get behind the event. The 32-team tournament is the first Women’s World Cup to be held in the southern hemisphere. It will start on July 20 in […]
Reading fired Paul Ince as manager on Tuesday. The team was 22nd in the Championship and in danger of dropping to the third level of English soccer after losing six points last week. The under-21 team’s coach, Noel Hunt, will take over for the last five games of the season, the club said in a […]
