Who: Real Madrid vs MallorcaWhat: Spanish La LigaWhere: Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid, SpainWhen: Saturday, August 30 at 9:30pm (19:30 GMT) How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 6:30pm (16:30 GMT) in advance of our live text commentary stream. Real Madrid sit joint-top of La Liga with four other teams…
Spanish football chiefs then announced a regular season match between Villarreal and FC Barcelona was being scheduled for Miami in December, sparking howls of protest from the continent’s top supporter advocacy group. Football Supporters Europe (FSE) complained to the European Commission this week about “ongoing attempts to deterritorialise European football,” according to a letter obtained…
MONACO (AP) — Now that the 36 teams contesting the Champions League are set, the draw for the most prized title in European club soccer will be made Thursday in Monaco. Each team will face eight opponents in the opening league phase which runs from September through January. Advertisement The list of teams is more…
Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Joao Palhinha has been voted the Premier League Player of the Matchweek for Matchweek 2. The summer loan signing from Bayern Munich follows in the footsteps of his new Spurs team-mate Richarlison who won the honour for Matchweek 1. Palhinha secured 33 per cent of the vote in the official Premier League…
MONACO (AP) — José Mourinho and Fenerbahce fell short of returning to the Champions League on Wednesday, losing 1-0 at Benfica in the qualifying playoffs on Wednesday. Benfica — the first club Mourinho coached — had two goals disallowed on video review in the first half before its Turkish forward Kerem Aktürkoğlu scored with a…
The Kansas City Chiefs are partnering with the German Federal Police to sponsor a youth flag football camp in Munich next month.The camp will take place Sept. 18 at Sportpark Freiham, which also hosts the Chiefs’ girls flag football league in Germany.“We are extremely excited to partner with the Federal Police around this youth Flag…
Real Madrid claimed a 3-0 La Liga win at newly-promoted Real Oviedo, with Kylian Mbappe scoring in each half before Vinicius added a late third to seal the match. For Oviedo, returning to Spain’s top flight after an absence of almost a quarter of a century, the arrival of the 15-time European champions on Sunday…
Reigning Spanish League champions recovered from a two-goal, halftime deficit to pull off a stunning comeback against Levante. Barcelona fought back from a two-goal deficit to win 3-2 at Levante with a late own-goal by the hosts in La Liga. Defending champions Barcelona needed Pedri Gonzalez and Ferran Torres to score early in the second…
Who: Oviedo vs Real MadridWhat: Spanish La LigaWhere: Estadio Carlos Tartiere in Oviedo, SpainWhen: Sunday, August 24, at 9:30pm (19:30 GMT) How to follow: We’ll have all the updates on Al Jazeera Sport from 6:30pm (16:30 GMT) in advance of our live text commentary stream. The La Liga season reaches its second round of fixtures…
By Corina Pons and Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) -After surviving the perilous trek through the jungle of Panama’s Darien Gap with his wife and three daughters to reach the United States, Venezuelan policeman Alberto Peña thought he had found a haven from the persecution he says he fled from back home. But two years later,…