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/ 2958 days agoAncelotti replaces Sarri with promise to end Napoli's title wait
Milan (AFP) – Carlo Ancelotti promised to end Napoli's 28-year wait for a Serie A title after it was confirmed on Wednesday he would take over from Maurizio Sarri as coach of the Italian club on a three-year deal. Ancelotti, sacked by Bayern Munich last September, steps in after Sarri was pushed out of the […]

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/ 2958 days agoEmpty feeling as troubled Ajaccio slump to play-off loss
Montpellier (France) (AFP) – Toulouse took a huge step towards preserving their French Ligue 1 status with a 3-0 win over troubled Ajaccio in the first leg of a relegation/promotion play-off staged at an empty stadium in Montpellier. The match should have been played at Ajaccio's own Francois-Coty stadium but French league officials switched it […]

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/ 2958 days agoNeymar's return 'better than expected' – Brazil physical trainer
Teresópolis (Brazil) (AFP) – Brazil's star forward Neymar is returning to training "better than expected," after more than two months out with a broken foot bone, the Brazilian team physical trainer said Wednesday. The Paris Saint-Germain striker, who was injured in February and underwent surgery in Brazil, is in training with the national team in […]

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/ 2958 days agoIniesta says going to 'new home' Japan
Madrid (AFP) – Andres Iniesta tweeted Wednesday he was going to his "new home" with his "friend" Hiroshi Mikitani, owner of Japan's Vissel Kobe, implying he would now be playing there after leaving Barcelona. The 34-year-old posted a photo of himself and Mikitani in what appeared to be a private jet, along with emojis of […]

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/ 2958 days ago3 under-the-radar players to watch in FIFA World Cup 2018
The 2018 FIFA World Cup is less than a month away and it holds the potential of making many new stars, who’d be remembered for many years to come. The 2014 edition saw the likes of James Rodriguez becoming a superstar. His amazing work with the ball for the Colombian national team won him the […]

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/ 2958 days agoAncelotti named as new Napoli coach on three-year deal
Milan (AFP) – Carlo Ancelotti has been appointed coach of Italian club Napoli on a three-year deal, the Serie A side confirmed on Wednesday. "Napoli are happy to announce agreement has been reached with coach Carlo Ancelotti to lead the first team for the next three seasons," the club said in a statement. Ancelotti, who […]

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/ 2958 days agoArsenal new third shirt revealed for 2018/19 season [PHOTOS]
Arsenal's third shirt for the 2018/19 season will be a turquoise jersey with navy trim. Designed by Puma, the third shirt will herald a new chapter in the history of Arsenal Football Club now that Unai Emery has taken charge to replace Arsene Wenger. In the history of the Gunners, the club had an away […]

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/ 2958 days agoAncelotti to take Napoli job as Sarri puts Zenit, Chelsea on alert
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 […]

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/ 2958 days ago'A man you can trust': Koscielny sends World Cup best to France
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 […]

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/ 2958 days agoTelemundo unveils theme music for World Cup TV coverage
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 […]

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/ 2959 days agoHow Belgium should line up at World Cup 2018
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 […]

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/ 2959 days agoFIFA empathy not enough to topple CAS in Guerrero doping case
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 […]

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/ 2960 days agoFOX says calling World Cup games off monitors isn’t big deal
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 […]

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/ 2961 days agoTelemundo sending reporters from U.S. to 2018 World Cup
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 […]

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/ 2961 days agoTelemundo World Cup schedule
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 […]