Berlin (AFP) – RB Leipzig returned to third place in the Bundesliga with an entertaining 4-2 victory at Cologne on Monday. Jhon Cordoba claimed the early advantage for the home side but Leipzig scored four in 37 minutes, including Timo Werner's 31st in all competitions, to climb back above Borussia Moenchengladbach and Bayer Leverkusen in […]

Milan (AFP) – Serie A will return after a three-month coronavirus-enforced absence on June 20 with Torino hosting Parma in the first of four postponed matches on the opening weekend, the Italian league confirmed on Monday. The championship will resume with fixtures which were called off when Italian sports was suspended on March 9 because […]

London (AFP) – Horse racing resumed in England on Monday as professional sport got under way again following the easing of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Elite sport in Britain has been in a deep freeze since March but the government on Saturday approved the return of domestic competitive action behind closed doors from June 1. Premier […]

Paris (AFP) – Some of the French Ligue 1's club presidents joined forces on Monday to criticise the decision in April to declare the season over due to the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said five week ago the campaign could not restart but Germany's Bundesliga has resumed while Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie […]

London (AFP) – Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers claims he has been shunned by some of his family since quitting Celtic to return to the Premier League. Former Liverpool boss Rodgers infuriated Hoops fans when he left the Scottish champions to take charge at the Foxes in February 2019. With several of Rodgers' relatives supporting the […]

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Former Brazil international Fred took off on a five-day, 600-kilometer cycle ride on Monday to come to the help of poor families affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The 36-year-old announced on Twitter his "Tour de Fred" from the south eastern city of Belo Horizonte to Rio de Janeiro, where he […]

London (AFP) – Liverpool players showed their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd in the United States by taking a knee around the centre circle at Anfield on Monday. Reds stars including Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold tweeted the same photograph with the words "Unity is strength", […]

London (AFP) – Liverpool players showed their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd in the United States by taking a knee around the centre circle at Anfield on Monday. Reds stars including Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold tweeted the same photograph of the squad along with the […]

Milan (AFP) – Italian football federation president (FIGC) Gabriele Gravina said Monday he hoped that a small number of fans will be able to attend matches before the season finishes. "Fans in stadiums? It is my heartfelt wish to be able to see a small presence in stadium for the end of the championship," Gravina […]

London (AFP) – Manchester United extended Odion Ighalo's loan spell until January 2021 on Monday to ensure the Nigerian striker will be able to finish the 2019/20 season with the Premier League club. Ighalo's initial loan deal from Shanghai Shenhua expired at the end of May, but the 30-year-old has been rewarded for an impressive […]

London (AFP) – Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford fears society is "more divided than ever" in the violent aftermath of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis. Floyd died last Monday after a white police officer held his knee on the handcuffed black man's neck for several minutes. The shocking incident has sparked protests and riots in […]

London (AFP) – Queens Park Rangers CEO Lee Hoos says he is "stunned" and "appalled" by plans for the Championship to return on June 20 given how little time players will have to get up to speed. Clubs in England's second tier did not return to any sort of training until May 25 and will […]

Berlin (AFP) – Marcus Thuram, Jadon Sancho and Weston McKennie joined the protests against racism and police brutality in the US while Bayern Munich and head coach Hansi Flick sent records tumbling as his team stayed seven points clear. AFP Sport looks at three talking points from the weekend in the German Bundesliga: Protests for […]

Berlin (AFP) – England winger Jadon Sancho scored a hat-trick and revealed a "Justice for George Floyd" protest message in Borussia Dortmund's 6-1 rout of bottom side Paderborn on Sunday that trimmed Bayern Munich's lead at the top of the Bundesliga to seven points. The outstanding Sancho, who now has 17 goals and 17 assists […]

Milan (AFP) – Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini revealed Sunday he thought he would die as he suffered coronavirus symptoms when the Italian team played their Champions League match against Valencia in March. Gasperini told the Gazzetta Dello Sport that he was sick when Atalanta beat Valencia 4-3 behind closed doors at the Mestalla stadium […]