Month: June 2020

6:39 AM ET David Luiz‘s future will be resolved this week with all parties working towards extending his stay at Arsenal, according to the player’s agent Kia Joorabchian. The 33-year-old’s existing agreement expires on June 30 having only signed a one-year contract when joining the club from Chelsea in an £8 million deal last summer.
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6:59 AM ET Tottenham head coach Jose Mourinho has said Harry Kane, Son Heung-Min and Moussa Sissoko will all start against Manchester United on Friday evening. The trio were all injured when England went into lockdown in March due to the coronavirus pandemic but have continued their rehabilitation in the interim and are now deemed
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8:43 PM ET Arsenal‘s Brazilian defender David Luiz blamed himself for his team’s 3-0 defeat at Manchester City on Wednesday in which he was sent-off in the 49th minute. Luiz, whose contract with the club runs out at the end of the month, came on as a 24th minute substitute for the injured Pablo Mari
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8:00 AM ET Growing up, Maryam Shojaei‘s mother told her daughter stories of attending soccer matches in Iran. Before 1979, everybody — man or woman — was allowed inside the stadium. That changed when the conservative government imposed an unwritten rule to exclude women from attending men’s soccer matches because of “profane language” and “half-naked
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11:12 PM ET USL Championship side Las Vegas Lights fired manager and former United States international Eric Wynalda late on Wednesday. Wynalda and the Lights had played just one match on the season, a 1-1 draw against the San Diego Loyal on March 7, before the season was shut down. His overall record with Las
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5:00 AM ET Adriana Garcia Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Leganes coach Javier Aguirre was sent off during his team’s 2-0 loss at Barcelona on Tuesday for “imitating the sound of the whistle” to confuse players. Aguirre had been warned by officials earlier in the game to stop imitating the whistle before being handed
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1:36 PM ET Aston Villa, Sheffield United players take a knee. SHAUN BOTTERILL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Aston Villa and Sheffield United re-started the Premier League on Wednesday after a 100-day hiatus caused by the COVID-19 health crisis with a strong statement of support for the worldwide protests against racism by kneeling once the whistle for kick-off
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9:35 AM ET Lisbon will host this season’s Champions League final in August after UEFA confirmed that the final stages of the 2019-20 competition will be held in the Portuguese capital rather than Istanbul, as originally planned. Following a meeting of UEFA’s Executive Committee on Wednesday, it has also been announced that the Champions League
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4:26 PM ET Stephan Uersfeld Bayern Munich secured their eighth consecutive Bundesliga title with a 1-0 win against Werder Bremen on Tuesday. The victory opened a 10-point gap between Bayern and second-placed Borussia Dortmund who, despite having three games in hand, cannot catch the champions. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)– Insider
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