London (AFP) – England women's manager Mark Sampson has rued the sporting politics which he believes has denied a British team from adding another gold to the nation's growing medal collection at the Rio Olympics. Sampson guided England to a bronze medal at last year's Women's World Cup in Canada — a result that would […]

London (AFP) – Southampton manager Claude Puel is confident rumours linking captain Jose Fonte with a move to Friday's opponents Manchester United won't stop the Portugal defender concentrating on the task at hand. Fonte was a key member of the Portugal side that won Euro 2016 and is understood to be a target for several […]

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Neymar scored the fastest goal in Olympics history and Manchester City's Gabriel Jesus struck twice as Brazil went 3-0 up against Honduras by half-time in Rio. The hosts now have the chance to ease some of the pain caused by a 7-1 thrashing at the hands of Germany on home […]

London (AFP) – Two public areas around the redeveloped Main Stand of Liverpool's Anfield ground are to be known as 96 Avenue and Paisley Square, the Premier League club said Wednesday. 96 Avenue, a name honouring the victims who were killed in a terrace crush during the 1989 FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest at […]

Moscow (AFP) – Russia's most successful club Spartak Moscow announced on Wednesday they have appointed Massimo Carrera as their new manager. The Italian had been named caretaker boss after head coach Dmitry Alenichev resigned earlier this month following Spartak's elimination from the Europa League qualifying stages. The deputy chairman of Spartak's board of directors, Alexander […]

Almaty (Kazakhstan) (AFP) – Comments by former Arsenal midfielder Andrei Arshavin suggesting all athletes competing in certain Olympic sports use banned performance-enhancing drugs rattled Russia's media on Wednesday as the country remains embroiled in doping scandals. Arshavin, in an interview with a Kazakh news site published late Tuesday, said athletic success in "cyclic sports", which […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich's Kingsley Coman will miss the opening weeks of the new Bundesliga season after damaging ankle ligaments on Wednesday, with the club confirming he will be out 'until further notice'. Bayern have given no fixed time for how long the French international forward is expected to be out, but some German […]

If you watched beIN SPORTS' coverage of La Liga last season, you would have noticed a discernible difference. The production quality in beIN SPORTS' studio was raised. There were far more pre-match, half time and post-match discussions on camera with their talent. There were several welcome surprise visits by world-class footballers. Plus there was more […]

Chicago (AFP) – The United States will play host to New Zealand in an October football friendly in Washington as a warm-up for the start of final-round qualifying for the 2018 World Cup. The Americans will meet the All Whites on October 11 at RFK Stadium in their first friendly since 2003, with the US beating […]

Istanbul (AFP) – Experienced Dutch coach Dick Advocaat on Wednesday vowed to reinvigorate the fortunes of Fenerbahce with attacking football as he was officially unveiled as the new coach of the Istanbul giants. Advocaat had arrived in Istanbul earlier this week as the surprise choice to replace Vitor Pereira, whose one-year stint ended in an […]

If you're like me, you love NBC Sports' coverage of the Premier League. The coverage is hands down the best we've ever seen when it comes to soccer, and the network hardly ever makes a wrong move. But you want more. Wouldn't it be great to see more replays shown during the week? Would you tune […]

Berlin (AFP) – Lukas Podolski believes Germany wasted their chance to lift the Euro 2016 title and admits he was sad to see Portugal win the final of the European championships. The 31-year-old Galatasaray striker announced his retirement from international football on Monday, having scored 48 goals in 129 appearances for Germany, and was in […]

Paris (AFP) – Riyad Mahrez, one of the stars of Leicester City's unlikely Premier League title triumph last season, has hinted that only "two or three" clubs could tempt him to leave the English champions. Algerian international Mahrez, who was named player of the year in England by his fellow professionals last season after playing […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich's Kingsley Coman had to be carried out of Wednesday's training session on a stretcher after suffering an ankle injury, leaving the German champions sweating about the extent of the problem. "He was lying there and was obviously in pain, which is never a good sign," Bayern captain Philipp Lahm told […]

Paris (AFP) – Sergio Aguero brushed off two missed penalties to score a hat-trick as Manchester City outclassed Steaua Bucharest 5-0 on Tuesday in the first leg of their Champions League play-off tie in Romania. The result means that new City coach Pep Guardiola can breathe a huge sigh of relief as the Abu Dhabi-backed […]