6:32 AM ET Adriana Garcia Mexican club America will increase security after their teenage defender Jana Gutierrez received death threats on social media. Sources also told ESPN that the club will offer Gutierrez, 17, personal protection for as long as she needs as well as legal assistance. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S.
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10:05 AM ET Green’s reemergence in the German second division has prompted him and U.S. soccer fans to wonder: when will he rep the USMNT again? TF-Images/Getty Images Julian Green’s career began almost perfectly. Just weeks after his 19th birthday, he checked two huge items off of his career bucket list: (1) sign with Bayern Munich,
5:00 AM ET As with most aspects of daily life, the timing of everything in this season impacted by the pandemic is just a little bit off. Traditionally we hit the Bundesliga winter break right before Christmas, allowing us to reflect and take stock at the halfway stage, but in 2020-21, there are no such
3:30 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Barcelona are in the midst of a crisis. With reports of €1.2 billion debt (€730m owed short-term); no president, sporting director or even a board to take decisions; star player Lionel Messi‘s future still unresolved despite his contract running out in the summer; and sitting 10 points behind La Liga
8:58 PM ET Danny Lewis The transfer window opened in early January, and speculation is heating up about potential deals. Check out the latest gossip below, and see all official deals here. TOP STORY: Long close to securing loan move to England New York Red Bulls and USMNT centre-back Aaron Long is close to completing
11:22 PM ET AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has defended himself against accusations he aimed racist comments at Inter‘s Romelu Lukaku during the Coppa Italia quarterfinal on Tuesday, saying there is no place for racism in “Zlatan’s world.” Ibrahimovic and Lukaku, who played together at Manchester United, exchanged words at the end of the first
5:52 PM ET Associated Press Turin’s mayor and four others were convicted and sentenced to a year and six months in jail on Wednesday in connection with a stampede during a public viewing of the 2017 Champions League final, which was projected on a maxi-screen in one of the Italian city’s main piazzas. More than
12:58 PM ET UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin reiterated the ruling body’s commitment to holding the rescheduled European Championship this year in 12 cities across the continent as originally planned. The 24-nation event, which was due to take place in June-July last year, was postponed by 12 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. – Ogden: How
4:09 PM ET LONDON — The mitigating factor is that Thomas Tuchel had one training session. The bad news is that he isn’t going to get too many more before Chelsea play again, or in fact any sort of extended period to work on things for some time. Tuchel was initially reluctant to take the
6:35 PM ET It is an old truism that you can’t win a league title with an unreliable goalkeeper and David De Gea produced further evidence of that brutal reality as Manchester United‘s Premier League ambitions suffered a devastating blow with a 2-1 defeat against bottom club Sheffield United. The mistakes of one man are