Chelsea was handed its heaviest loss in 28 years on Sunday when Manchester City routed Maurizio Sarri's side 6-0 in the Premier League. The meeting of the last two champions was a complete mismatch as Sergio Aguero scored a hat trick for the second successive ...
New signing Kosuke Kinoshita makes sudden impact for Sint-Truiden
Kosuke Kinoshita celebrated his debut with Sint-Truiden by scoring the late winner, four minutes after entering as a substitute in Saturday's 2-1 Belgian top-flight victory over Waasland-Beveren. The 24-year-old Kinoshita, who has been playing in Europe since he was 18, moved last month from Swedish ...
Manchester United moved into the Premier League's top four by beating Fulham 3-0 at Craven Cottage on Saturday, with Paul Pogba scoring two more goals to continue his resurgence under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Pogba gave United the lead with a blistering shot from a tight ...
Brazil soccer academies offer hope of future stardom, demand sacrifice
A promising goalkeeper who was being monitored by European clubs. A defender who hoped to become a professional player like his cousin. A forward who wanted to follow in the footsteps of international striker Diego Costa. Each carried similar goals and hopes. Each left family ...
Liverpool has reported pre-tax profit rising to a record £125 million ($162 million), fueled by last season's run to the Champions League final. Turnover rose by £90 million to £455 million in the year ending May 31, 2018, according to extracts of the annual ...
A fire at the training center of soccer club Flamengo killed 10 people and injured at least three others on Friday, firefighters said. The fire broke out at Ninho do Urubu, a state-of-the-art training center that was expanded and opened only two months ago. It was ...
Phil Jones signs new contract with Manchester United through 2023
Phil Jones has become the latest Manchester United player to be rewarded with a new contract, signing a deal which will keep him at the club until at least 2023, the club announced on Friday. Jones, 26, joined from Blackburn Rovers in 2011 and has ...
More than two weeks after the plane carrying Emiliano Sala to a new career in the English Premier League crashed into the sea, police confirmed Thursday that the body recovered from the wreckage was the Argentine soccer player. A search of the seabed of the ...
Re-elected UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin vows he won't be FIFA 'yes man'
Promising European soccer leaders that he won't be a "yes man" for FIFA's expansion plans, Aleksander Ceferin was re-elected as president of UEFA for four more years on Thursday. Ceferin's keynote speech ahead of his win by acclamation sent clear messages to FIFA President Gianni ...
Japan jumped 23 spots to No. 27 in the FIFA world rankings announced Thursday following its runner-up finish in the just-concluded Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates. The Samurai Blue placed in the top 30 for the first time since 2013. They ranked No. ...
Authorities have recovered a body from the seabed wreckage of a plane that was carrying soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot, authorities said on Wednesday. However, British air accident investigators have yet to say whether the body was that of Sala, who had just ...
Manchester City climbed atop the Premier League standings — at least provisionally — for the first time since December by beating Everton 2-0 on Wednesday, heaping more pressure on main title rival Liverpool. Aymeric Laporte and Gabriel Jesus scored for City during injury time in ...
