Berlin (AFP) – The Bundesliga has again posted record returns and it's CEO Christian Seifert believes future growth will only be affected if Bayern Munich's stranglehold on the German league trophy continues unchecked. On Thursday, Germany's 18 top flight clubs posted a revenue total for the 2015/16 season of 3.24 billion euros ($3.4b) for the […]

We're into the final 8 of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations with Egypt, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Tunisia and Morocco remaining in the competition. For soccer fans in the United States, all of the quarterfinals will be shown on US television and/or streaming this weekend (see the full schedule at the […]

London (AFP) – Asmir Begovic will only move from Chelsea during the transfer window if the Premier League leaders can bring in a replacement before next week's deadline, Blues manager Antonio Conte said Friday. Conte's comments came as Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers confirmed London club Chelsea had made an offer for the Glasgow giants' Scotland […]

Oyem (Gabon) (AFP) – Ghana are hopeful that skipper Asamoah Gyan will be able to feature in Sunday's Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against DR Congo after tests on an injury he suffered on Wednesday proved encouraging. A Ghana FA statement said the striker had returned to the team's base in Oyem in northern Gabon […]

If your team is involved in one of the nine FA Cup 4th Round games that will be televised and/or streamed in the United States this weekend, consider yourself fortunate. Unfortunately, there are seven other games that won't be televised anywhere in the world including such big teams as Manchester City, Crystal Palace, Newcastle United […]

Berlin (AFP) – Arjen Robben says Bayern Munich have the quality to repeat their 2013 triple of Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup titles, but admits the Bavarian giants need to improve. Bayern, who play Werder Bremen away on Saturday, are three points clear in Germany's top flight and face Arsenal next month in the […]

Franceville (Gabon) (AFP) – Senegal coach Aliou Cisse still looks back at the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations with a sense of unfinished business, so Saturday's quarter-final against Cameroon offers a chance, partly, to settle an old score. The Lions of Teranga have never won the continental trophy, but they came mighty close 15 years […]

Berlin (AFP) – Ralf Rangnick says the Bundesliga will flaunt its future on Saturday when his "sexy" second-placed RB Leipzig face unbeaten Hoffenheim with both aiming to chase down leaders Bayern Munich. "We are proud, modern and attractive, sexy even," Leipzig's director of sport, who has taken the Red Bull-backed upstarts from the fourth division […]

Madrid (AFP) – Real Madrid host high-flying Real Sociedad on Sunday aiming to reverse an alarming dip in form that has seen Zinedine Zidane's seemingly unbeatable squad just two weeks ago fail to win in three of their last four matches. The European champions bowed out of the Copa del Rey to Celta Vigo in […]

Milan (AFP) – Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri is expected to ring the changes but hinted his new-look tactical formation could be deployed again when the champions travel to Sassuolo on Sunday. Allegri has regularly had to choose whether to pair Paulo Dybala or Mario Mandzukic with Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain as his side target a […]

Kingston upon Hull (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho took a sarcastic swipe at his Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp after his side booked their place in the League Cup final. A day after Liverpool had been bundled out of the competition by Southampton, United progressed with a 3-2 aggregate win over Hull […]

Libreville (AFP) – Senegal coach Aliou Cisse insists Africa Cup of Nations opponents Cameroon are favourites to win the eagerly-awaited quarter-final in Franceville on Saturday. Pundits beg to differ, though, making the Senegalese Teranga Lions favourites not only to reach the semi-finals, but to go on and win the competition for the first time. Senegal […]

London (AFP) – Cesc Fabregas is not happy at his lack of game time under Chelsea manager Antonio Conte and on Saturday he can make a case for more opportunities in the FA Cup fourth-round clash with Brentford. The 29-year-old former Arsenal and Barcelona midfielder — a member of the Spain side that won the […]

London (AFP) – Manchester City supporters must once again wait to see which version of Pep Guardiola's team shows up in Saturday's FA Cup fourth-round game at Premier League rivals Crystal Palace. City have won by four goals or more on five separate occasions, but have also fallen to two 4-0 defeats — at Barcelona […]

Southampton (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Arsene Wenger says Arsenal travel to a confident Southampton in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday determined to avenge their League Cup exit. Claude Puel's underdogs won 2-0 at the Emirates Stadium in November in the League Cup and on Wednesday clinched their place in that competition's final by […]