Month: June 2022

3:20 AM ET Ronaldo promised to embark on the challenge if his club earned promotion to Spain’s top-flight league. R Garcia/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. Retired Real Madrid and Brazil striker Ronaldo swapped his boots for cycling cleats as he embarked on his 450km (280 mile) trip on his electric bicycle, fulfilling his promise to do so if his club
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9:00 PM ET Associated Press Canada’s World Cup warmup match against Panama was canceled Sunday when the men’s team refused to play because of a labor dispute with the nation’s governing body that includes a demand the women’s national team get equal match fees. Players, preparing for the nation’s first men’s World Cup appearance since
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10:11 PM ET Cesar Hernandez Mexico‘s draw with Ecuador on Sunday night in Chicago was once again halted by the return of an anti-gay chant directed at the opposition goalkeeper during the match. The friendly match — part of Mexico’s preparation for the World Cup in November — was tense and scrappy through the final
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12:07 PM ET CARDIFF, Wales — Oleksandr Petrakov wanted to apologise. The Ukraine coach had just seen his team dominate a World Cup playoff final against Wales in Cardiff, but a combination of Gareth Bale’s match-winning qualities and a stunning performance by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey earned a 1-0 victory, and World Cup qualification, for the
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7:01 PM ET Associated Press Jesus Ferreira failed to convert a pair of first-half chances as USMNT forwards kept up their goal-scoring struggles in a 0-0 draw against Uruguay on Sunday in their second of four World Cup warmup matches this month. The U.S. took the field three hours after learning Wales would be its
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4:44 PM ET Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Portugal swept to an emphatic 4-0 victory over Switzerland in their UEFA Nations League clash at the Estadio Jose Alvalade in Lisbon on Sunday. William Carvalho and Joao Cancelo were also on the scoresheet as the hosts wasted numerous opportunities to inflict more humiliation on the visitors,
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4:46 PM ET The United States men’s national team wore orange armbands during Sunday’s friendly against Uruguay to show support for a letter the U.S. Soccer Federation sent to Congress asking it to pass stricter gun control legislation. The letter was written the wake of the mass murder of 19 school children and two teachers
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4:09 PM ET Gareth Bale confirmed he would postpone thoughts of retirement after saying that helping Wales to World Cup qualification is “what dreams are made of.” Bale, without a club following his departure as a free agent from Real Madrid last week, saw his first-half free kick against Ukraine deflect off the head of
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4:20 PM ET Lionel Messi scored five goals for Argentina in a runaway 5-0 win over Estonia in a friendly in Pamplona, Spain, on Sunday. The Paris Saint-Germain striker put his less-than-stellar club season behind him with two goals in the first half and a hat trick after the break as Argentina enjoyed an easy
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1:56 PM ET An Andriy Yarmolenko own goal broke Ukraine‘s hearts and sent Wales to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar as they lost 1-0 in the playoff on Sunday. Ukraine had several chances to level the scoring or even put themselves ahead of Wales but it was a deflected Gareth Bale free kick which
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A MATIC PROPOSTO UN ANNO PIU’ OPZIONE 05/06/2022 20:41 Il secondo colpo di mercato estivo della Roma si avvicina e si chiama Nemanja Matic.Dopo il portiere Svilar,è ben avviata la trattativa per il 33enne centrocampista serbo, che arriverà dallo United a parametro zero. Al calciatore proposto un contratto di 1 anno con opzione sul secondo
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11:21 AM ET Catarina Macario was injured in Lyon’s last game of the season. Photo by Marco Canoniero/LightRocket via Getty Images United States women’s national team’s Catarina Macario has confirmed she suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in Lyon’s final game of the season and will be out “for a few months.” Lyon beat Issy
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