Milan (AFP) – Carlo Ancelotti has reached agreement to take over as Napoli coach ending Maurizio Sarri's three-year reign at the Serie A club, according to reports in Italy on Wednesday. Italian Ancelotti — who was sacked by Bayern Munich last September — hammered out a deal Wednesday after a series of meetings with Napoli […]

Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines (France) (AFP) – Ruled out of the World Cup with a ruptured Achilles tendon, Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny has written a letter of encouragement to the France squad, national coach Didier Deschamps said on Wednesday. The 32-year-old, who has 50 France caps, was stretchered out of Arsenal's Europa League semi-final defeat to Atletico Madrid […]

Telemundo has unveiled its theme music for the coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which is composed and produced by the award-winning Yoav Goren. The theme song, “Sueño de Campeones” (see video below), was recorded from the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London. Meaning "Champions Dream" in English, the song is part of an […]

Belgium is the latest country to witness a golden generation of players. Their current contingency of stars have the right amount of maturity, experience and skill to finally shine at a major international competition. Prior to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the Red Devils went through a barren spell in the international scene. Their […]

Lausanne (AFP) – FIFA chief Gianni Infantino on Tuesday delivered a hammer blow to Peru captain Paolo Guerrero's hopes of overturning a doping ban to play at the World Cup by underlining the supremacy of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Guerrero's attempt to clear his name following a ban for testing positive for […]

FOX Sports' list of excuses defending why they've chosen to have 66% of their commentators calling games from a studio in Los Angeles during this summer's World Cup continues to grow. In an interview with The Athletic, FOX Sports Executive Producer David Neal claims that calling soccer games off a TV monitor instead of being […]

Telemundo Station Group today announced it’s dispatching a team of local station journalists from stations in Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, McAllen and its news bureaus in Washington, D.C. and Miami to the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. The station group’s team consists of 12 sports and news anchors, photographers and producers. This […]

We've compiled the Telemundo World Cup schedule for the 2018 tournament so you have all of the kickoff times and TV details in one place. After beating Univision to win the rights, Telemundo will have the rights to this summer's World Cup tournament for the first time ever. They also have the US Spanish-language TV […]

Leaked images of Liverpool's third shirt for the 2018/19 season reveal that the design from New Balance will feature a unique pattern. Released by the experts at FootyHeadlines, the leaked photos and designs show a one-of-a-kind design that will be very interesting to see what it looks like in person and on television. Liverpool's third […]

When it comes to trailers to promote a network's television coverage of a World Cup, few do it better than the BBC. In fact, this is the best trailer we've seen so far to get us excited for Russia 2018, which is much more superior than anything ITV and FOX has created. Featuring an opera […]

For soccer fans in the United States who speak Portuguese, French, Arabic or Polish, Sling TV will be streaming all 64 World Cup games in these languages via Sling International. With Sling International, the live World Cup games will feature the video feed from FOX's coverage of the World Cup. And then depending on which […]

FOX Sports has unveiled their studio for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and it's a work of art. The aesthetics of the studio (see video below) are incredible. It looks like a studio that will grab the attention of viewers who catch a glimpse of it as they click through on their remote or stumble […]

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed the list of commentators and studio talent that will be covering the 2018 FIFA World Cup for UK television. For this summer's tournament, BBC will split the World Cup games with ITV. BBC will broadcast 33 games, while ITV will broadcast 32. World Cup Coverage FAQs: FOX […]

Lyon (AFP) – Marseille star Dimitri Payet is determined to go down in history by beating Atletico Madrid in Wednesday's Europa League final as the club celebrates a quarter of a century since their greatest moment. They became the first, and to date only, French club to win the Champions League by beating AC Milan […]

Florence (Italy) (AFP) – Roberto Mancini said Tuesday he had no problem severing his multi-million euro contract with Zenit Saint Petersburg to jump at the chance to coach the struggling Italian national team. The former Italy international had two years left on his lucrative three-year deal with the Russian club, bankrolled by energy giant Gazprom, […]