Month: June 2021

10:45 PM ET Nani continued his sensational season with a stunning 80th-minute strike to lift visiting Orlando City to a 2-1 victory over Inter Miami on Friday. Nani also assisted Chris Mueller’s equalizer seven minutes earlier as Orlando (6-1-3, 21 points) completed a perfect week with three wins in seven days. In the process, the
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2:38 PM ET While Paris Saint-Germain sweat over Kylian Mbappe‘s future at the club, his younger brother Ethan has signed a three-year youth contract until 2024, the Ligue 1 side said on Friday. Ethan, 15, has played for PSG’s youth sides in the past and joins Senny Mayulu in signing for the next three seasons.
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4:25 PM ET Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku said he was motivated by watching the Michael Jordan documentary “The Last Dance” ahead of his team’s 2020 European Championship match against Portugal. “When I saw ‘The Last Dance’ and Jordan talking about how he motivates himself, I thought to myself, ‘I’m not alone,'” the Belgium striker said
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8:01 AM ET Tottenham Hotspur are in talks with Nuno Espirito Santo as they look to bring their chaotic managerial search to an end, sources have told ESPN. Nuno has not been offered the job as of yet but positive discussions have taken place in recent days with incoming managing director of football Fabio Paratici
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11:54 AM ET The Premier League said on Friday it is funding defibrillators at grassroots clubs and facilities to save lives if someone suffers a cardiac arrest in the wake of Christian Eriksen‘s collapse at Euro 2020. The former Tottenham midfielder collapsed in Denmark‘s group opener against Finland. His life was saved when CPR was
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9:19 AM ET Kathleen McNamee U.S. Soccer and the United States women’s national team continued to clash on Thursday after the governing body accused a lawyer working for the squad in their equal pay lawsuit of showing “a concerning level of dishonesty” presenting “a misleading and inaccurate account of the facts” in a new documentary
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8:49 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United stars could be at risk in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s summer revamp of his squad, sources have told ESPN. Enquiries made by agents and intermediaries over the availability of players like Anthony Martial and Donny van de Beek have been met with a response from the club that “every
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5:44 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester City are close to reaching an agreement with Aston Villa for Jack Grealish, sources have told ESPN. City are ready to pay around £100 million for the midfielder, which would be a British record if the deal goes through, eclipsing the £89.3m Manchester United paid for Paul Pogba in
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3:44 AM ET Alex KirklandESPN FC Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said that “the Super League continues” and “nothing has failed” as the three clubs who maintain their support for the project — Los Blancos, Barcelona and Juventus — await a European court ruling on the competition’s future. UEFA’s disciplinary proceedings against the three rebel
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8:55 AM ET Netherlands captain Georginio Wijnaldum said he will wear a rainbow captain’s armband and could walk off the pitch if he is racially abused during the Euro 2020 round-of-16 clash with Czech Republic in Budapest on Sunday. Hungary are under investigation from UEFA for “potential discriminatory incidents” during their games against France and
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3:14 PM ET Mohamed Salah is unlikely to travel to the Tokyo Olympics to represent Egypt next month, sources have told ESPN, with the Liverpool forward expected to play a full part in the club’s preseason preparations for the upcoming Premier League campaign. The president of the Egyptian Football Association, Ahmed Megahed, has claimed this
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12:11 PM ET Brazil scored an equaliser after referee Nestor Pitana had touched the ball in the build up. MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images The Colombian Football Federation (FCF) has asked Copa America organisers to suspend the referee from their 2-1 defeat by Brazil, saying he prejudiced the result by not halting play when the ball
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9:42 AM ET UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has put an end to the away goals rule. Photo by Paul Murphy – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images UEFA announced on Thursday that the away goals rule will be abolished in European tournament knockout ties from the 2021-22 season. The rule, which had been in place since 1965, was
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10:42 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Manchester United have confirmed that United States women’s national team stars Christen Press and Tobin Heath have left the club following the completion of their one-year contracts. The two World Cup winners, who were announced as part of the USWNT’s Olympic roster on Wednesday, joined
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