Month: September 2021

8:09 PM ET Associated Press Former Brazilian football great Pele remained in intensive care on Friday as he recovered from surgery to remove a tumor on the right side of his colon. Hospital Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo said in a statement that 80-year-old Edson Arantes do Nascimento was recovering “n a satisfactory manner,” though
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2:29 PM ET Associated Press Dani Alves will no longer be playing for Sao Paulo due to delayed salary payments owed to the veteran Brazil right back, his boyhood club said Friday. The 38-year-old defender, who has multiple honors from his time at Sevilla FC, Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain, did not show up for
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1:28 PM ET U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone on Friday sent an open letter asking the unions of the women’s and men’s national teams to agree to equalize FIFA’s World Cup prize money. She called for the men’s national team to allow the USSF to reallocate a portion of FIFA’s World Cup payments
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8:10 AM ET Jurgen Klopp has said that FIFA’s plan to reshape the football calendar and stage a World Cup every two years is “all about money” and fails to consider the impact on the players who the Liverpool manager describes as “the most important ingredient.” A FIFA feasibility study into biennial World Cups, overseen
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7:25 AM ET Guus Hiddink won the FA Cup during his first spell in interim charge of Chelsea. Guus Hiddink Chelsea Former Real Madrid and Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink has announced his retirement from coaching. Hiddink, 74, was managing Curacao but has left that post having battled COVID-19 earlier this year. The illness saw Patrick Kluivert
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1:12 PM ET Major League Soccer will begin its playoff season on Nov. 20, featuring its first Thanksgiving Day broadcast and seven teams per conference in 12 single-elimination playoff matches played across two weeks, culminating in the 2021 MLS Cup on Dec. 11 at 3 p.m. ET on ABC, UniMás and TUDN, TSN and TVA
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1:35 PM ET Christen Press has played over 100 times for the USWNT. Photo by Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images United States women’s national team forward Christen Press has announced plans to take time out from soccer, citing a desire to focus on mental health, spiritual growth and processing grief. The 32-year-old, who left Manchester United in
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1:19 PM ET Manchester United‘s Premier League game with Aston Villa on Sept. 25 has been moved forward because of a Courteeners concert taking place at Lancashire Cricket Club on the same day. The Old Trafford fixture was originally scheduled for 10 a.m. E.T. but will now begin at 7.30 a.m. E.T. and will directly
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4:45 PM ET Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo says his return to Old Trafford is not a vacation and he hopes to prove himself again with consistent performances over the next three to four years. The 36-year-old Portuguese spent six seasons at United between 2003-09, winning eight major trophies, and rejoined them from Juventus last
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9:03 PM ET Lionel Messi has scored his 79th international career goal for Argentina, surpassing the South American men’s record held by Brazil legend Pele. Messi scored all three goals in Argentina’s 3-0 win over Bolivia on Thursday in a World Cup qualifying match at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, giving him two more
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2:31 PM ET Virgil van Dijk will be ready for Liverpool’s match against Leeds United on Sunday. Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/Getty Image Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk has shaken off a minor ankle injury sustained while on duty with the Netherlands and will be available for their Premier League visit to Leeds United this weekend,
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5:30 PM ET Mikel Arteta has pleaded with his Arsenal players to take a COVID-19 vaccine because otherwise “the team will pay the price” of another outbreak within the squad. Granit Xhaka became the latest Arsenal player to test positive while away on international duty with Switzerland. It follows on from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette,
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5:34 AM ET Chelsea are set to revive their interest in Jules Kounde during the January transfer window if Sevilla lower their asking price back to around €50 million, where the two clubs almost found an agreement this summer, sources have told ESPN. At the start of the summer, Sevilla were insisting any interested clubs
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9:24 AM ET Associated Press Jerome Boateng is alleged to have assaulted his former partner Sherin Senler in July 2018. Peter Kneffel/picture alliance via Getty Images Lyon defender Jerome Boateng denied allegations of assault against his former partner as his trial started on Thursday. Boateng, 33, told Munich District Court that he did not hit and
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