4:28 PM ET Associated Press Sevilla keeper Marko Dmitrovic subdues a pitch invader during their Europa League match against PSV. Getty Images A fan ran onto the field in PSV Eindhoven‘s match against Sevilla and punched the Spanish team’s goalkeeper in the face before being wrestled to the ground on Thursday. The incident happened late in
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12:48 PM ET Sergio Ramos has announced his reluctant retirement from international football after being told he is not part of new Spain coach Luis de la Fuente’s plans. Ramos, 36, revealed that De la Fuente phoned him on Thursday and said he would not be selected regardless of his form with his club side
8:44 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens LaLiga have confirmed that an investigation is underway regarding a possible case of match-fixing during last season’s Copa del Rey. The fixture in question is Levante‘s 8-0 first round win over Huracan Melilla, which was played on Dec. 2, 2021. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)
2:00 PM ET WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Major League Soccer Players Association (MLSPA) announced on Thursday that it has become an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). MLSPA members will join the more than 12.5 million workers that make up the unions of the AFL-CIO. The players associations
2:47 PM ET Angel Di Maria scored a hat trick as Juventus eased to a 3-0 win at 10-man Nantes on Thursday to reach the Europa League round of 16 4-1 on aggregate. Juventus only managed a 1-1 draw against the French side in the home leg as they eyed a long run in the
6:22 AM ET Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have been included in Wrexham‘s squad list for The Soccer Tournament — a million-dollar, winner-take-all prize seven-a-side competition to be held in Cary, North Carolina, from May 31-June 4. The event will also feature Team Dempsey, which will be managed by former United States star Clint Dempsey,
5:24 AM ET Associated Press John Motson, the BBC football commentator who was one of the most well-known voices in British sport for 50 years, has died. He was 77. “It is with great sadness we announce that John Motson OBE died peacefully in his sleep today,” a statement from Motson’s family read on Thursday.
6:29 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he gathered his players on the pitch at the end of the 1-1 draw with RB Leipzig because he wasn’t happy that their “heads were down” at the final whistle. City were held at the Red Bull Arena on Wednesday after Josko Gvardiol‘s second-half
8:10 PM ET Cesar Hernandez Mexican Football Federation president Yon de Luisa won’t seek re-election for his position, the FMF announced on Wednesday. De Luisa, who was hired in 2018, will serve out his term through May at which point Liga MX club owners will meet to elect a new president. – Stream on ESPN+:
4:58 PM ET RB Leipzig defender Josko Gvardiol headed in a 70th-minute goal to earn a 1-1 draw against visitors Manchester City in their Champions League round of 16 first leg on Wednesday. The 21-year-old defender bagged the deserved equaliser with a towering header after City’s Riyad Mahrez had slotted in following a Leipzig mistake