BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona lost more players to injuries including striker Robert Lewandowski and playmaker Dani Olmo during the international break ahead of visiting Girona in La Liga on Saturday. Kylian Mbappé is also doubtful for Real Madrid’s game against Getafe on Sunday after he missed a World Cup qualifier for France with an ankle…
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu responded to Donald Trump after he suggested Tuesday that he could pull 2026 World Cup games from Gillette Stadium over “unsafe conditions” in Massachusetts, citing recent street takeovers.Wu appeared on a podcast on Wednesday and said it would be unlikely that the games could change venues so late in the process….
LYON, France — U.S. international Lily Yohannes capped the scoring in OL Lyonnes’ 3-0 victory over St. Pölten with a spectacular long-range lob in the Women’s Champions League on Wednesday. Jule Brand and captain Ada Hegerberg — the competition’s all-time leading scorer — also found the net for the record eight-time champions. The 18-year-old Yohannes…
Before Barcelona’s Champions League quarter-final tie against Borussia Dortmund last season, the club’s senior executives held an off-the-record briefing with reporters. Among a wide range of topics discussed, boardroom members spoke about the consequences of not playing in the summer’s revamped Club World Cup in the United States. The prospect of missing out on prize…
Cristhian Mosquera was the coolest man inside Anfield when William Saliba came off with an ankle injury five minutes into Arsenal’s visit to champions Liverpool in August. “It was crazy,” says Mosquera, who replaced Saliba for only his second appearance in the English top flight. “I hadn’t played there in the Premier League before, but…
President Trump has once again suggested relocating World Cup matches from cities that he deems unsafe — this time, threatening to move games from Boston, one of 11 U.S. cities hosting the FIFA games next year. Speaking from the Oval Office during his meeting with Argentina’s president on Tuesday, Trump’s remarks came in response to…
Zena Weeks “fell into” becoming a private chef for footballers. She trained at a cooking school before working for England Athletics as an events manager, and it was through this that Weeks saw the dietary challenges sports stars can face. “A lot of the athletes were not eating well,” she tells The Athletic. “They didn’t…
The Premier League creates noise. It provokes comment, analysis, quotes and opinions from fans, journalists, coaches and sometimes even club owners. It’s strange, then, that the quietest community within English football consists of its decision-makers — the sporting directors and transfer gurus, people whose names are well-known but whose voices are less so. More curious…
When Javier Tebas talks about globalization, he doesn’t sugarcoat it. For the president of La Liga, who has turned Spain’s once-sleepy domestic league into a global media brand, exporting Spanish football to the United States has always been the logical next step. He’s finally pulling off what he set in motion seven years ago. On…
For most players not on duty with their country, an international break is a chance to recharge during two weeks without any domestic football. But that will not be the case for Atletico Madrid and Inter — who are travelling to Libya in north Africa to play in the friendly Reconstruction Cup-FDRL trophy tonight (Friday)….