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
7:44 AM ET Associated Press FIFA president Gianni Infantino has urged the 32 nations preparing for the most political World Cup in the modern era to focus on the game in Qatar and avoid handing out lessons in morality. A letter imploring teams to “let football take center stage” was sent by Infantino and FIFA
7:12 AM ET Adriana Garcia LaLiga has slammed plans of another attempt by Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus to relaunch the Super League. The breakaway competition, which included 12 elite European clubs, was launched in April 2021 but collapsed 48 hours later after English Premier League clubs pulled out because of a widespread public backlash
10:22 AM ET Manchester United coach Erik ten Hag said Donny van de Beek must improve when given the chance to prove his worth at the club, but is not giving up on the midfielder just yet. Into his third season at United, Van de Beek is no closer to holding down a regular first-team
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