World Soccer Talk

Manchester City's defensive woes continued this week. After picking up a groin injury on the opening weekend of the Premer League against Newcastle United, City captain and centre half Vincent Kompany was originally scheduled to be out of first team action for four weeks or more. However, the latest reports are that Kompany may be […]

To celebrate their 120-year anniversary, Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart and Puma have launched a brand-new home shirt that features no shirt sponsor name, is limited to only 5,000 available and features a design that harkens back to 1950 when the club won their first Bundesliga title. The back of the shirt features the number 1893 […]

In this week's episode of The Football Special (sorry for the day in posting it), Malcolm Best is joined by Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay to discuss the lighter side of football. Plus we hear from Jamie Carragher and his England ambitions, Joe Kinnear returns as an "expert" plumber, and we witness the efficiency of […]

AS Roma have unveiled their new third shirt for the 2013-14 season. Roma's third jersey was selected by their supporters. After the club experienced quality control issues with their shirt manufacturer not meeting their high standards, AS Roma decided to design and manufacture their home, away and third shirts themselves this season. "Today it is […]

Arsenal unveiled the first official photographs of new signing Mesut Ozil wearing the colors of Arsenal Football Club today. The transfer fee that Arsenal are believed to have paid Real Madrid for Ozil is £42.5million for a five year deal. The transfer makes Ozil the most expensive German footballer of all time and broke Arsenal's […]

Everton unveiled their third shirt for the 2013-14 season today. New Everton loan signing Gareth Barry is pictured in the new shirt alongside Everton manager Roberto Martinez. According to the Everton club website "the 2013/14 third shirt is a dazzling white pearl and dark navy combination and features a high v-neck collarless design. Similar to […]

Mesut Ozil has completed his first television interview as an Arsenal footballer. Arsenal's newest signing was interviewed by Sky Sports News in Germany, where Mesut Ozil described how he's looking forward to playing in the best soccer league in the world. Ozil even found a way to slot in a "Let's go Gunners" soundbite. Ozil […]

Brazilian attacking midfielder Kaka returned to Italy yesterday after completing a free transfer from Real Madrid to AC Milan. On his return "home" to Italy, he was greeted with a hero's welcome from the AC Milan supporters who were jubilant. When Kaka played for AC Milan from 2003 to 2009, the player was a fan […]

The soft-spoken Belgian Marouane Fellaini was interviewed for the first time tonight as a Manchester United player. Watch the video below from his first interview as a Manchester United footballer. Here's what David Moyes said about Fellaini, who was signed by United for £27.5million: “I have worked with Marouane for five years and I’m delighted […]

Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion have been busy in the transfer market today with both clubs picking up a new footballer for the season. Stoke have acquired Werder Bremen forward Marko Arnautovic who can play either as a striker or winger. The Austrian has made 27 appearances for his national team, and helped Inter Milan […]

In what has been one of the most entertaining matches of the 2013/14 season so far, Barcelona scored three goals courtesy of Lionel Messi to grab an away win against Valencia at Mestalla Stadium. It looked like a walk in the park for Barcelona in the first half as they coasted to a 3-0 lead […]

During a recent Turkish soccer match, a footballer walked off the pitch in tears after being on the receiving end of verbal abuse from a small set of supporters of his own team. The incident happened during last week's match between Trabzonspor and Rizespor in the Turkish Super League. The footballer, Volkan Sen, walked off the […]

The winners of the 2013 UEFA Champions League face the winners of the 2013 UEFA Europa League today to determine who will lift the UEFA Super Cup trophy. The match features Bayern Munich against Chelsea, which is being played in Prague. For viewers in the United States, the match will be shown live on FOX […]

Against all odds, Celtic mounted an amazing comeback tonight to qualify for the UEFA Champions League. After losing 2-0 in the first leg against Shakhter Karagandy, Celtic had to score two unanswered goals in order to tie up the match. And that they did. But with just minutes to go before the match was set […]

There are plenty of world soccer matches in store this afternoon with your choice of UEFA Champions League play-off matches, Capital One Cup and Spanish Supercopa. For viewers in the United States, Everton against Stevenage kicks off at 2:45pm ET on beIN SPORT. The Toffees will be hoping to progress to the next round of […]