3:32 PM ET Eric GomezMexico writer Chivas president Ricardo Pelaez admitted on Monday that the Liga MX club will look at recruiting eligible talent from the United States and other countries. The Guadalajara-based side has a long-standing tradition of only fielding Mexican nationals or players with family ties to the country. Pelaez, however, admitted that
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12:47 PM ET Thomas Tuchel has claimed that Kepa Arrizabalaga is training so well that the goalkeeper is contributing to Chelsea‘s strikers’ scoring struggle. On Monday, the 26-year-old was dropped from the Spain squad for the first time since joining the Blues for a world-record fee of £71.4 million from Athletic Bilbao in 2018. Kepa
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10:03 AM ET The European soccer season is a marathon. We freak out early over weird results and small sample sizes, only for the world to (mostly) right itself by Christmas. But once the calendar changes, we get a much better feel for what we should really be freaking out about. Back in early January,
8:10 AM ET USWNT and OL Reign star Megan Rapinoe has said that when she pulls on her United States jersey she is not thinking of U.S. Soccer and her side’s ongoing legal case to secure equal pay. Players for the national team agreed to settlement terms for the portion of the lawsuit against the
8:41 AM ET Sweden‘s record goalscorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been named in coach Janne Andersson’s squad for their upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and Kosovo, five years after the striker retired from the national team. Ibrahimovic, 39, scored 62 goals in 116 internationals before quitting the team following their exit at the group stage
10:03 AM ET Barcelona president-elect Joan Laporta has less than 24 hours to secure a bank guarantee worth €125 million or the club will be forced to call a new election process. Laporta, who was previously Barca president between 2003 and 2010, was voted back into power last weekend ahead of rival candidates Victor Font
10:06 AM ET Arsene Wenger has called for a radical overhaul of the entire football calendar with domestic seasons played from March to November and the World Cup to be held every two years. Wenger has continually pushed for a series of reforms ever since taking up a role as FIFA’s chief of global football
6:02 AM ET Dinamo Zagreb coach Zoran Mamic was jailed for fraud. Alastair Grant/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Croatia’s Supreme Court on Monday confirmed a prison sentence for Dinamo Zagreb coach Zoran Mamic for fraud ahead of the club’s Europa League clash with Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday, the Balkan nation’s state television (HRT) said. Mamic’s brother Zdarvko,
8:33 AM ET Real Madrid are investigating a possible hacking after an erroneous medical report, which claimed forward Rodrygo Goes had suffered a hamstring injury, was published on their website and social media accounts. “After tests carried out on our player Rodrygo by Real Madrid’s medical services, he has been diagnosed with a muscular injury