Moises Llorens Sam Marsden May 23, 2024, 07:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Hansi Flick has emerged as one of the leading candidates to take over Barcelona if Xavi is sacked but the Catalan club will not make a final decision until president Joan Laporta meets the coach at a meeting scheduled for next week,
Month: May 2024
May 20, 2024, 07:23 AM ET Open Extended Reactions West Ham have confirmed the appointment of Julen Lopetegui as David Moyes’ replacement as head coach in an announcement on Thursday. Lopetegui, who has reportedly signed a two-year deal with an option for an extra season, was most recently in charge of Wolves during the 2022-23
Rob Dawson, CorrespondentMay 23, 2024, 04:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Bayern Munich and Burnley are close to reaching an agreement for manager Vincent Kompany, a source has told ESPN. Bayern have turned to Kompany, who is a fluent German speaker and spent two years playing for Hamburg in the Bundesliga, after a chaotic search
Jeff Kassouf May 22, 2024, 09:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions From left to right Alyssa Thompson, Jaedyn Shaw and Olivia Moultrie are three of the best young players in the NWSL. Where did they fall on our ranking of every NWSL player aged 19 and younger? Illustration by ESPN Three years ago, the NWSL was
ESPN News Services May 22, 2024, 03:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Ajax Amsterdam have agreed a fee for the release of Nice coach Francesco Farioli, with the 35-year-old expected to sign a three-year contract in the coming days, sources told ESPN Netherlands. After Ajax previously reached an agreement with Farioli, the Italian now looks
Jeff Kassouf May 22, 2024, 05:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Camille Ashton has resigned from her role as general manager of the Kansas City Current, the club announced on Wednesday, with the club unbeaten through 10 games this season and second in the National Women’s Soccer League table. “I am thankful for my time
Open Extended Reactions Ademola Lookman wrecked Bayer Leverkusen‘s pursuit of a historic unbeaten treble by scoring a stunning hat trick to seal Europa League glory for Atalanta with a 3-0 win in Dublin. Former Everton and RB Leipzig forward Lookman, 26, produced the performance of his career as Gian Piero Gasperini’s team upset the odds
Open Extended Reactions DUBLIN, Ireland — It was Michael Jordan who once said that he “never lost a game, I just ran out of time,” but as much as Xabi Alonso and his Bayer Leverkusen players might want the same to be true of their failure to complete an unprecedented unbeaten treble, the reality is
Associated Press May 22, 2024, 04:32 AM ET FIFA was urged by international lawyers Wednesday to uphold its own policy and scrutinise Saudi Arabia’s human rights record before picking the kingdom to host the men’s 2034 World Cup. A 22-page document was delivered to FIFA headquarters in Zurich on behalf of Mark Pieth and Stefan
Jeff Kassouf May 22, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions United States women’s team legend Carla Overbeck will coach a team dubbed ‘US Women’ next month at The Soccer Tournament, a $1 million, winner-take-all event in Cary, N.C. Overbeck, the captain of the USWNT’s 1999 World Cup-winning team, will be joined by several other
May 22, 2024, 10:58 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Barcelona forward Robert Lewandowski has said he will remain at the LaLiga side next season and that they will win “many titles” going forward. Lewandowski — who joined Barça from Bayern Munich in 2022 — has scored 58 goals in 94 games in all competitions since
Emily Keogh May 22, 2024, 05:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — In April 2023, after her side had lost 2-1 on aggregate to Barcelona in the UEFA Women’s Champions League semifinals, Chelsea manager Emma Hayes sat in her postmatch news conference at Camp Nou and cried. The journalists gathered in the room shared
Associated Press May 22, 2024, 08:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions UEFA picked Budapest on Wednesday to host the men’s Champions League final in 2026 and delayed giving the 2027 game to Milan amid uncertainty over the future of San Siro. The Puskás Arena and San Siro were the only two candidates for the two
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens May 22, 2024, 07:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Barcelona president Joan Laporta will meet with coach Xavi Hernández next week as he continues to weigh up whether to sack him as manager, sources have told ESPN. Sporting director Deco — as well as other members of the sporting directorate —
May 22, 2024, 05:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Inter Milan becomes the latest Serie A club to have American owners. Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images United States-based investment fund Oaktree Capital Management said on Wednesday it has become the new owner of Serie A champions Inter Milan after a missed €395 million ($428m) payment from the club’s
Open Extended Reactions Nothing sums up the frenzied thinking at Chelsea quite like a signing they didn’t initially want to make ending up being named their Player of the Year. Cole Palmer‘s remarkable rise at Stamford Bridge was one of the few highlights that manager Mauricio Pochettino can look back on with pride as he
May 21, 2024, 03:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Israel’s SC Dimona and Shimshon Tel Aviv have set a world record for the longest ever penalty shootout with 56 kicks. Their semifinal promotion playoff in the third-tier finished 2-2 after extra time, leading to penalties. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, NWSL more (U.S.) Dimona
May 22, 2024, 01:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said on Tuesday it would resume the Brazilian Championship in early June after being forced to suspend matches last week due to historic floods in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The teams in Brazil’s southernmost state were unable to
May 21, 2024, 05:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Austria captain David Alaba was left out of the country’s provisional Euro 2024 squad on Tuesday, but the injured Real Madrid defender will accompany the team to Germany as a ‘non-playing captain,’ the Austrian Football Federation said. Coach Ralf Rangnick announced the squad of 29 players,
Associated Press May 21, 2024, 08:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Coaches at next month’s Copa América will be able to make a 6th and extra substitution in cases of suspected head trauma or concussion. South American soccer’s governing body CONMEBOL announced the decision Tuesday, making it valid for all its competitions once the Copa
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