Geneva (AFP) – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday dismissed an appeal by Cardiff against having to pay the first instalment of the transfer fee for Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane accident. CAS threw out the appeal filed by the former English Premier League club against French side […]

Berlin (AFP) – Werder Bremen fought back from two goals down in the 89th minute to claim a remarkable 3-2 victory at Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, with Scottish forward Oliver Burke scoring the winner. Burke, who also scored in the fifth minute of injury time to see Bremen pick up a point at home to […]

London (AFP) – Harry Kane set a Premier League record for the most goals with a single club as the Tottenham striker netted in Saturday's match against Wolves. Kane's 185th top-flight goal for Tottenham took him above Argentina striker Sergio Aguero's total of 184 during his time at Manchester City. It was also Kane's 250th […]

Berlin (AFP) – Eighteen-year-old Englishman Jamie Bynoe-Gittens scored one and created another as Borussia Dortmund came back to defeat Freiburg 3-1 on Friday with all their goals coming in the last 13 minutes of the game. With the game drifting towards defeat, Dortmund were again able to rely on their young brigade, with Bynoe-Gittens and […]

Paris (AFP) – Kylian Mbappe will miss Paris Saint-Germain's first Ligue 1 outing of the new season this weekend against Clermont with an adductor injury, his club said on Friday. PSG announced that Mbappe had been left out of the squad that would travel to Clermont for Saturday's game "due to pain in his adductor […]

Johannesburg (AFP) – Eswatini twice surrendered a lead over Botswana on Sunday to draw 2-2, bow out of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) and stretch to 14 years a record of never winning a qualifier. After eight draws and nine losses over seven editions, the team from the small, landlocked southern Africa kingdom went ahead […]

Cahors (France) (AFP) – Christophe Laporte sprung a surprise to win stage 19 as his Jumbo-Visma teammate Jonas Vingegaard retained his Tour de France lead ahead of Saturday's deciding showdown in his intense struggle for the title with Tadej Pogacar. The Dane has built a 3min 26sec overall lead over the defending champion ahead of […]

Cahors (France) (AFP) – Christophe Laporte became the first Frenchman to win on this year's Tour de France, taking stage 19 at Cahors on Friday, as Jonas Vingegaard maintained his race lead over defending champion Tadej Pogacar with just two days left. Laporte, of Jumbo Visma, managed to close a gap from the main peloton […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Manchester United signed Christian Eriksen on Friday with the Denmark midfielder arriving at Old Trafford as a free agent on a three-year deal. The 30-year-old's switch to the Red Devils completes an incredible return after his brush with death last year. Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch in […]

Dublin (AFP) – The Republic of Ireland ended their long wait for a Nations League win in style by thrashing Scotland 3-0 in Dublin on Saturday. Ireland had scored just two goals in their previous 12 Nations League games without victory, but surpassed that tally in 90 minutes as Alan Browne, Troy Parrott and Michael […]

Paris (AFP) – The head of Paris police acknowledged Thursday the "failure" of security operations for the Champions League final last month where crowd problems, tear-gas and street crime marred the biggest night in European club football. "It is obviously a failure," Didier Lallement told a commission investigating the fiasco at the French Senate. "It […]

Vienna (AFP) – The Austrian football federation (OFB) said it was having the pitch at the Ernst-Happel Stadium X-rayed ahead of a game with France after a huge hole appeared during a Nations League match against Denmark. On Monday, after winning their Nations League game 2-1, Danish players complained about the hole that had appeared […]

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Former Argentina forward Carlos Tevez, who has been without a club for the past year, announced his retirement from the game on Saturday. "I'm retiring, it's confirmed," the 38-year-old told America TV in Argentina. "As a player I gave everything I had in my heart and that leaves me at peace […]

London (AFP) – Liverpool chairman Tom Werner has demanded an apology from French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera over the treatment of the club's fans at Saturday's Champions League final in Paris. Werner, part of the US-based Fenway Sports Group that owns Liverpool, said in a leaked letter sent to the minister on Monday that he […]

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel should consider placing on its terrorism list two right-wing extremist groups accused of violence towards Palestinians and who called for the death of Arabs, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said Monday. "I believe it is time to examine defining groups like La Familia and Lehava as terror groups, and I know the […]