11:36 AM ET Tottenham boss Antonio Conte has criticised English football’s decision to resume domestic matches just three days after next month’s World Cup final. The 2022 showpiece in Qatar will take place on Dec. 18 but the fourth round of the Carabao Cup is scheduled for the following midweek, provisionally Dec. 21 and 22,
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11:21 AM ET Manchester United face a struggle to find a place to play their postponed Premier League games after failing to win their Europa League group. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, more (U.S.) United needed to beat Real Sociedad by 2+ goals to take first place and require only two games, to
3:30 PM ET Barcelona and England defender Lucy Bronze says women’s international football is no longer just about the United States women’s national team ahead of next summer’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The USWNT have won the World Cup four times since 1991, including the last two, in France in 2019 and
9:30 AM ET Sid LoweSpain writer “Culers, I have to tell you something,” he posted at 6.36 p.m. on a grey Thursday evening in November, and just like that, it was over. Twenty-five years after he joined the club where he’d been a member from the day he was born, and 15 years since he
4:45 PM ET Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has shocked the football world by announcing that he intends to retire, not at the end of the current season but midway through the current campaign when the Spanish league breaks for the World Cup later this month. 2 Related Pique revealed that Barca’s upcoming game against Almeria
8:28 AM ET Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said the football world is “guilty” for the amount of players set to miss the World Cup through injury. A number of high-profile players including Paul Pogba, N’Golo Kante, Diogo Jota and Timo Werner have been ruled out of the tournament through injury, with the tournament starting
9:36 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez said overseeing Gerard Pique‘s retirement from football has been one of the most difficult moments of his managerial career. Pique, 35, has fallen down the pecking order at Barca under former teammate Xavi this season, prompting him to call time on his career after
5:58 AM ET Adriana Garcia LaLiga president Javier Tebas has said he has doubt Gerard Pique will one day become a “great president of Barcelona.” Pique, 35, announced his retirement professional football on Thursday, with Saturday’s LaLiga clash against Almeria his last game at the Camp Nou. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, more
10:03 AM ET Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said Premier League top goalscorer Erling Haaland is “much better” and could return to action against Fulham on Saturday. Guardiola did not risk Haaland for City’s Champions League win over Sevilla on Wednesday, given they had already sealed top spot in their group, after the striker picked
8:23 AM ET Adriana Garcia Spain‘s women’s team coach Jorge Vilda has extended an olive branch to the rebel 15 players by declaring his willingness to have dialogue but is also ready to move forward without them. With the World Cup eight months away, Vilda on Friday left out the players that refused to be