Month: November 2020

3:38 PM ET The United States women’s national team showed their support for racial justice before the their 2-0 friendly defeat of the Netherlands on Friday. The U.S. walked out for the match wearing warm-up jackets with the words “Black Lives Matter” emblazoned on the front, and nearly every member of the team took a
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2:44 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona players have agreed to defer a significant amount of their wages this season to save the club up to €172 million. Barca have been hit especially hard financially by the coronavirus pandemic and have seen their salary cap reduced by almost €300m in the 2020-21 campaign. –
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Nov 26, 2020 Chelsea have been one of the Premier League’s form teams in recent weeks, but they’ve yet to carve out a consistent style or identity under Lampard. Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images Thanks to a 2019 transfer ban, Chelsea had spent an uncharacteristically low amount on new players of late. Owner Roman Abramovich
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11:29 AM ET Adriana Garcia Diego Maradona’s coaching staff at Argentinian club side Gimnasia y La Plata has resigned following the death of the football legend. Maradona passed away on Wednesday at the age of 60 after a heart attack, two weeks after being released from a hospital in Buenos Aires following brain surgery. –
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12:56 PM ET Associated Press Three funeral workers have been fired for posing for photos alongside the body of footballer Diego Maradona shortly before his funeral. The images distributed across social media created outrage, even death threats, across a nation that venerated Maradona, who died Wednesday of a heart attack at age 60. Tens of
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10:01 AM ET Frank Lampard has confirmed Christian Pulisic is available to return to Chelsea‘s squad for Sunday’s Premier League clash against Tottenham at Stamford Bridge. The 22-year-old has made just five appearances this season and was forced to withdraw from the USMNT squad earlier this month as he continues to be dogged by complications
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Nov 25, 2020 Graham HaysESPN.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. The grass grew so high in Houston-area public parks this spring that Kristie Mewis could scarcely see where she was going. With the start of the NWSL season on hold during early
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5:10 AM ET Adriana Garcia La Liga president Javier Tebas has said he wants to attract managers such as Liverpool‘s Jurgen Klopp, Manchester City‘s Pep Guardiola and Tottenham‘s Jose Mourinho to La Liga to help it grow, as well as players like Juventus‘ Cristiano Ronaldo. Tebas, at the helm of the Spanish Football League (LFP)
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4:00 AM ET Soccer clubs including Atletico Madrid, Manchester United, Manchester City, RB Leipzig and Real Madrid are selling all kinds branded merchandise. ESPN.com Illustration The arrival of Thanksgiving and the Black Friday sales herald the start of the holiday season, and soccer clubs have a mind-boggling array of branded products available in the run-up to
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10:36 PM ET LA Galaxy’s dual Mexico–United States nationals Efrain Alvarez and Julian Araujo will be in the USMNT camp next week in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, sources have told ESPN. The news 18-year-old Alvarez will be attending camp under head coach Gregg Berhalter was first reported by the Scuffed Podcast. East L.A. native Alvarez has
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1:26 PM ET Super-agent Mino Raiola doesn’t see a long-term future for FIFA and would like a new system to govern football, citing how Major League Soccer brought new ideas to the table when it was founded in the 1990s. Speaking at the World Football Summit, Raiola slammed the way FIFA currently runs the global
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5:19 PM ET Napoli overcame Croatian side Rijeka 2-0 on Thursday in their first match since the death of Diego Maradona, the Italian club’s greatest and most popular player. On an emotionally charged evening, the Napoli team took the field for the Europa League game wearing No. 10 shirts with Maradona’s name emblazoned on the
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2:46 PM ET Arsenal turned in an impressive second-half display to beat Molde 3-0 in their Group B Europa League match in Norway on Thursday night to book a spot in the knockout rounds. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only) A scoreless first half ended with few chances for either side and
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10:58 AM ET Liverpool could play their final Champions League group match against FC Midtjylland in Dortmund, sources have told ESPN The match could be moved to another country because of travel restrictions for those returning to the United Kingdom from Denmark. • Thousands gather to honour Maradona• No fans at Utd, City; up to
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