Month: June 2024

Bolivia motivated to face South America’s best team Uruguay, says coach Zago Bolivia will have to play a solid game to keep their Copa America hopes alive on Thursday when they face Uruguay, one of the best teams in the world and the best in South America, coach Antonio Carlos Zago said ahead of their
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Open Extended Reactions Kevin De Bruyne urged Belgium‘s angry supporters to back the team after the midfielder told his teammates to leave the pitch at the end of Wednesday’s 0-0 Group E stalemate against Ukraine following incessant booing by the country’s travelling fans. The goalless draw in Stuttgart was enough to secure qualification for the
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Georgia booked a place in the last 16 of Euro 2024 in their debut appearance at a major tournament, with a 2-0 win over Portugal on Wednesday in the biggest upset in European Championship history. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia‘s early goal and a Georges Mikautadze penalty earned Georgia, ranked 74th in the FIFA rankings, the win over
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Belgium played out a nervy scoreless draw with Ukraine to eventually wrap up second place in Group E and set up a last-16 tie with France, with the Ukrainians eliminated on goal difference, finishing bottom of the group behind Slovakia. Romania finish as group winners after they drew with Slovakia 1-1 in the other match.
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Jeff Kassouf Jun 26, 2024, 11:02 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Alex Morgan has been left off the United States women’s national team’s 2024 Olympic roster, marking the team’s first major tournament without the star forward since the 2008 Olympics, before she debuted for the team. USWNT head coach Emma Hayes named her 18-player roster
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Gabriele Marcotti, Senior Writer, ESPN FCJun 26, 2024, 08:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Italy coach Luciano Spalletti, who can notoriously become passive-aggressive when the adrenaline is high and he loses his cool, has apologised to a journalist after a rant at a post-match news conference. Even with his track record, few expected a reaction
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Lizzy Becherano Jun 26, 2024, 08:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Major League Soccer plans to take a break during the 2026 season to accommodate the World Cup in order to avoid incomplete rosters throughout the duration of the competition. The length of the pause remains undetermined, but the league agreed it was needed to
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Julien Laurens, CorrespondentJun 26, 2024, 06:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Kylian Mbappé‘s lawyers have sent a final notice to Paris Saint-Germain to request that the club pay the wages that he believes they owe him, a source has told ESPN. The notice arrived at the club’s offices in Paris last week. Mbappé, 25, believes
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Emily Keogh Jun 25, 2024, 06:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Manchester United will move their women’s team into portable buildings at the club’s Carrington training complex next season to allow the men’s squad to use the women’s building while their facilities are being revamped, sources confirmed to ESPN. A source told ESPN that the
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Jun 26, 2024, 03:53 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Wrexham will host Wycombe Wanderers in their opening match in League One on Aug. 10 following the club’s first back-to-back promotion in its 159-year history, the English Football League announced on Wednesday. The club who are co-owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney finished second
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Jeff Kassouf Jun 25, 2024, 05:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — United States goalkeeper Matt Turner said on Tuesday that no team should be taken lightly at the 2024 Copa América and dismissed the premise that winning isn’t good enough anymore for the USMNT. Turner was responding to suggestions that the team needs
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Alex Kirkland, ESPN FCJun 26, 2024, 01:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Lionel Messi said he hoped his injury scare was “nothing serious” after receiving treatment for a right thigh problem during Argentina‘s hard-fought 1-0 Copa América win over Chile on Tuesday. Holders Argentina qualified for the quarterfinals with their second win of the tournament,
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Lautaro Martínez scored from a rebound in the 88th minute, giving defending champions Argentina and Lionel Messi a 1-0 victory over Chile on Tuesday night that guaranteed a berth in the Copa América quarterfinals. Messi’s corner kick led to a shot blocked by goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, and Martínez scored his second goal of the tournament
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Jun 25, 2024, 07:53 PM ET An assistant referee keeled over and fainted in the first half of Peru‘s Copa América Group A match against Canada, being played in hot and humid conditions at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City on Tuesday. Humberto Panjoj collapsed during stoppage time in the first half, with Canada goalkeeper
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Open Extended Reactions Gareth Southgate has questioned the “unusual environment” around the England team after they booed off against Slovenia despite topping Group C and urged supporters to back the team “however they feel towards me.” The Three Lions mustered just four shots on target in another underwhelming performance at these finals, but still left
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England finished top and Slovenia also advanced to the knockout stages of Euro 2024 after an uninspiring 0-0 draw in their final Group C match on Tuesday. England had already qualified for the round of 16 and, despite another flat performance, the draw leaves them in first place in the group on five points. Slovenia
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A left-footed rocket from Marcel Sabitzer gave Austria a thrilling 3-2 win over the Netherlands that sent them into the round of 16 at Euro 2024 as Group D winners, with the Dutch also progressing as one of the best third-placed teams. Austria topped the group on six points, with France second on five after
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