Jun 8, 2023, 10:14 AM ET Jude Bellingham, 19, started all five of England’s World Cup matches in Qatar. Tom Jenkins/Getty Images Nearly half the players competing at last year’s World Cup experienced extreme or increased mental fatigue during an unprecedented season of fixture congestion, according to international players’ union FIFPRO. Domestic leagues paused in November
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Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentJun 8, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. United States U20 international and Louisville City FC defender Josh Wynder has completed a transfer to reigning Portuguese champions Benfica, it was announced on Thursday. Sources tell ESPN that Benfica will pay
Jun 8, 2023, 04:49 AM ET West Ham United captain Declan Rice is set to leave the club this summer, chairman David Sullivan said on Thursday, following the club’s first European title victory in 58 years. Rice, 24, captained his side to the European title as a last-minute Jarrod Bowen winner earned West Ham a
Jun 7, 2023, 09:05 AM ET The 2022-23 European domestic season is over. With the club campaign finished, players jump on flights bound for all corners of the globe, returning home for a summer of recovery or, if selected, international football. Players in the frame for the U.S. men’s national team will have plenty of
Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterJun 8, 2023, 08:48 AM ET Close Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. With the summer transfer window scheduled to open on June 14 in the Premier League (find out about the rest of Europe here), we’re set for major deals and speculation around the biggest
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Jun 7, 2023, 03:59 PM ET Lionel Messi said he did not want to re-live his traumatic departure from Barcelona two years ago after revealing Wednesday he will join MLS side Inter Miami CF over the Catalan club. Messi, 35, left Barca in August 2021 as a free agent, signing for
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Jun 7, 2023, 05:09 PM ET Sergio Busquets has held talks with Inter Miami CF about the possibility of following Lionel Messi to the Major League Soccer franchise, sources have confirmed to ESPN. Busquets, 34, is also in negotiations with Saudi Arabian sides Al Nassr and Al Hilal after announcing last
Jun 7, 2023, 05:09 PM ET Jarrod Bowen scored in the 90th minute as West Ham United secured a last-gasp 2-1 victory over Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League final on Wednesday to clinch a first major European trophy in over half a century. The match at Prague’s Eden Arena looked like it was heading
Connor O’Halloran Jun 7, 2023, 07:40 PM ET PRAGUE — West Ham United manager David Moyes said winning the Europa Conference League on Wednesday stands as the best moment in his career. The east London club clinched their first trophy in 46 years — and first European title in 58 years — in a dramatic
Jun 7, 2023, 07:20 PM ET Lionel Messi‘s announcement that he plans to take his talents to South Beach sent prices for Inter Miami tickets on the secondary market into the stratosphere on Wednesday as fans clamored for a chance to see the Argentine great play on U.S. soil. Ticket prices surged following reports early