Month: June 2021

7:29 AM ET Denmark‘s players expressed dissatisfaction at the position they were put in after teammate Christian Eriksen‘s collapse during their Euro 2020 opener on Saturday, having to decide whether to finish the match that evening or the next morning. UEFA offered the players, who gathered in the dressing room after they witnessed Eriksen being
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5:08 AM ET Denmark player Christian Eriksen‘s condition is still stable and “good” since he suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed during his side’s Euro 2020 opening match against Finland on Saturday. “We are in touch with him. We were in touch with him yesterday and today. [His] condition is the same as yesterday, stable,
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6:59 PM ET Brazil opened their Copa America campaign with a 3-0 win over Venezuela on Sunday. Getty Brazil kicked off another Copa America on home soil with a comfortable 3-0 win over Venezuela in Brasilia on Sunday, with Marquinhos, Neymar and Gabriel Barbosa providing the goals to get the hosts’ campaign off to a strong
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2:28 AM ET Associated Press Carli Lloyd‘s 24-second strike — the second quickest goal in the United States women’s national team history — helped Vlatko Andonovski’s side beat Jamaica 4-0 on Sunday. Lindsey Horan scored on a penalty kick in the seventh minute. Midge Purce made it 3-0 in the 22nd minute, for her second
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12:00 PM ET LONDON — Gareth Southgate is aiming to chip away at the historic tournament failings that have perennially undermined England‘s chances and Sunday’s 1-0 win over Croatia at Wembley is another notable step along that path. The 50-year-old is steeped in Three Lions history, standing prominently in the lineage of biannual disappointment dating
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2:39 PM ET Two members of the Colombia delegation to Copa America tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, meaning three competing teams have players or officials infected before the tournament even kicks off. Eight Venezuela players tested positive on Saturday, as did three from Bolivia. Host nation Brazil play the opening match against Venezuela on
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10:38 AM ET Connor O’Halloran Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen was “gone” before he was resuscitated after suffering a cardiac arrest, the team’s doctor, Morten Boesen, said in a news conference Sunday. Eriksen, 29, is in a stable condition after he was taken to a hospital in Copenhagen on Saturday after he collapsed on the pitch
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10:54 AM ET Raheem Sterling broke the deadlock with a Kalvin Phillips assist after 57 minutes. Andy Rain/EPA England beat Croatia 1-0 in the opening game of their Euro 2020 campaign at Wembley on Sunday with Raheem Sterling scoring the only goal. England had never won an opening match at the European Championship and, despite the
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