Mar 13, 2024, 10:23 AM ET Spanish police have arrested six suspects in the robberies of the Madrid homes of eight wealthy individuals, including top players Radamel Falcao and Rodrygo Goes. Five men and a woman were detained and police seized 10 watches, jewellery, €3,300 ($3,600) in cash and two air pistols, police said in
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Associated Press Mar 13, 2024, 12:17 PM ET The Palestinian football federation says former national team member Mohammed Barakat was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. The federation says the 39-year-old Barakat was killed in a strike Monday on a residential building in the southern city of Khan Younis. Affectionately known as
Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentMar 13, 2024, 02:40 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Open Extended Reactions Midfielder Tyler Adams has returned to the United States men’s national team roster for the first time since the 2022 World Cup, as the USMNT looks to claim the
Julien Laurens, CorrespondentMar 13, 2024, 09:10 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Kylian Mbappé is suing a kebab shop owner for using his name in the description of one of his sandwiches. Mohamed Henni, an influencer based in Marseille and well known in the football world in France, has opened a kebab shop. – Stream on
Gabriele Marcotti, Senior Writer, ESPN FCMar 13, 2024, 02:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis oversaw a historic season in which his club won a first league title since the 1980s. Less than a year later, the club is in disarray after a series of baffling decisions. Andrea Staccioli/Insidefoto/LightRocket via Getty Images
Jeff Kassouf Mar 13, 2024, 11:37 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Vlatko Andonovski feels like he is home again — not just in obvious geographical terms, but in the spiritual sense of belonging. Saturday’s NWSL season opener against the Portland Thorns will be Andonovski’s first as head coach of the Kansas City Current, his hometown
Rob Dawson, CorrespondentMar 13, 2024, 06:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Manchester United‘s recruitment team are touring Europe’s biggest clubs ahead of the transfer window in an effort to get a jump start on this summer’s squad rebuild, a source has told ESPN. Football director John Murtough and director of football negotiations Matt Hargreaves had
Adriana Garcia Mar 13, 2024, 05:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Inter Miami coach Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino is impressed but not surprised that Lionel Messi has the same desire to win now as he had at Barcelona. Martino previously guided record eight-time Ballon d’Or award winner Messi at Barça in the 2013-14 season and then
Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Arsenal‘s round-of-16 curse in the Champions League is finally broken. It required a penalty shootout at the end of a gruelling 120 minutes — in which FC Porto tested the Gunners’ patience in almost every conceivable way — but they’ve reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 2010. As
Sam Marsden, Barcelona correspondentMar 12, 2024, 07:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BARCELONA — The last time Barcelona reached a Champions League quarterfinal, Lionel Messi still played for the club and the world was in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the four years since, there has been just one appearance in the round-of-16,