Barcelona striker Luis Suarez is a doubt for this weekend's La Liga clash against Atletico Madrid after picking up a hamstring strain during his side's 3-2 defeat to Bayern Munich. La Blaugrana will travel to the Vicente Calderon on Sunday knowing a victory would give them their 23rd league title. The team returned to training today for the […]

Mauricio Pochettino has heaped praise on the retiring Brad Friedel, but the Tottenham head coach suggested there was unlikely to be a sentimental final appearance for the veteran goalkeeper. After a career spanning three decades, the the American, who turns 44 on Monday, is at last calling time on his playing career, 17 years after […]

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard hopes he can keep his emotions in check when he bids farewell to Anfield on Saturday night. The 34-year-old is set to make his final home appearance against Crystal Palace at the weekend to bring the curtain down on a 17-year professional career with the Reds before joining Major League Soccer […]

Here’s today’s TV schedule for viewers/readers in the United States: Fiorentina vs Sevilla, 3pm, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO Dnipro vs Napoli, 3pm, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO MORE: — Watch Champions League and Europa League matches on FOX Soccer 2GO. — Sevilla prepared to punch their ticket to the Europa League […]

Manchester United executive vice chairman Ed Woodward has reiterated the club's stance that it will financially back manager Louis van Gaal during this summer's transfer period. According to the club official, the goal is to arm the Dutch boss with a squad capable of challenging for every major piece of silverware next season. "The squad […]

Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos is set to miss the remainder of the season after it was learned the center-back played yesterday's Champions League semi-final return leg with a torn calf muscle. According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, Ramos played the entire second half with the soleus muscle in his calf ripped. While no official […]

Chelsea have signed Brazilian midfielder Nathan from Atletico Paranaense for an undisclosed fee. The 19-year-old will move to Stamford Bridge on July 1. Nathan bolsters the ranks of Brazilians at Chelsea, joining Ramires, Willian, Oscar and Filipe Luis. The Blues also have young Brazilians Wallace and Lucas Piazon out on loan. Nathan said on chelseafc.com: […]

The second leg of the Copa Libertadores Round of 16 match between Boca Juniors and River Plate kicks off tonight in one of the world's most fierce and passionate games in soccer. In the first leg, the match was decided by a late penalty after River Plate's Carlos Sanchez converted the penalty. But everything is left […]

Andy Gray and Richard Keys are heading to beIN SPORTS this summer to help the network's coverage of Copa America, a source has revealed to World Soccer Talk. beIN SPORTS has the exclusive English-language and Spanish-language rights to the month-long tournament that will be held in Chile featuring the giants of South America including Brazil, Argentina, […]

Clichés are bad enough in sports broadcasting and writing. But the very worst among them: the clichés that aren’t even true. It’s a double whammy of awful. This is one of my real pet peeves in soccer journalism and broadcasting. Also file this under: “Some lessons never get learned, apparently.” So let’s go over this […]

Sevilla are set to punch their ticket to the Europa League final, so long as the La Liga side doesn't cough up its 3-0 advantage from the first leg against Fiorentina later today. The Spanish club is hoping to defend its Europa League crown and become the first team to win the competition four times. Speaking ahead of today's […]

Great news for La Liga fans, the Spanish High Court has provisionally suspended the planned player's strike in La Liga that was set to begin tomorrow at midnight, which means that league action will return on Sunday. The strike was initially called by both the Spanish Federation and the players union as they disagreed with the government's […]

If you want to travel back in time to experience how awful Dave O’Brien’s commentary was during ESPN’s 2006 World Cup, just switch on the English SAP option for any MLS game televised on UniMas every Friday night. You’ll soon get an idea of how bad it was. Although it’s hard to believe given how […]

Following their aggregate defeat to Juventus in the Champions League semi-final, Ancelotti admitted his future at Real Madrid was out of his hands, with the dependent being on post-season talks with club president Florentino Perez. The Royal Spanish Football Federation's Competition Committee has banned Ancelotti from Real Madrid's dugout for the final two La Liga games […]

Juventus defender Patrice Evra has promised to shake Luis Suarez's hand when he and his teammates take on Barcelona in the Champions League final in Berlin. While at Liverpool, Suarez was banned for eight games for racially abusing the former Manchester United left-back in October 2011. Following yesterday's 1-1 draw against Real Madrid – which saw […]