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
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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
4:30 PM ET MLS has issued a memo to its teams and league staff instructing them to prepare for a work stoppage. The memo, sent by MLS president and deputy commissioner Mark Abbott, comes ahead of a Jan. 29 (midnight, Jan. 28) deadline to negotiate a revised collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between MLS and the
5:02 PM ET Manchester United squandered a chance to reclaim top spot in the Premier League with a 2-1 loss to Sheffield United on Wednesday. The Old Trafford side had seen their position in the league overtaken by Manchester City on Tuesday. Looking to climb back atop the table, they were undone by goals from
9:07 AM ET One of the biggest success stories of 2020 in soccer was the emergence of Erling Haaland, who’d shown his talent for FC Salzburg in last season’s Champions League. Yet it was after he moved to Borussia Dortmund last January that we got to realize he was no prematurely hyped kid or flash
6:33 AM ET Sid LoweSpain writer Most players call going to Real Madrid a dream; Martin Odegaard called it “no drama.” The truth is that it wasn’t what he wanted — not yet — but when the phone rang in August 2020, he had little choice but to return to Valdebebas and the club he’d
8:17 AM ET Juventus president and head of the European Club Association (ECA) Andrea Agnelli has responded to reports of a breakaway Super League by backing UEFA’s Champions League reform and said competitions should remain open to all. A document produced in support of a breakaway outlines a plan for a 20-team league, outside of
12:22 PM ET Gianluigi Buffon is alleged to have uttered a blasphemous expression during Juventus’ clash with Parma. Ciro Santangelo/BSR Agency/Getty Images Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is facing a one-match fan if found guilty of using an alleged blasphemous expression during a match against Parma on Dec. 19. The incident relates back to a comment made
8:11 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona presidential candidate Joan Laporta said Paris Saint-Germain‘s public pursuit of Lionel Messi is “disrespectful” to the Spanish club and urged FIFA to intervene. Messi, 33, is out of contract at the end of the season and, since Jan. 1, has been free to negotiate a pre-contract agreement