NBC analyst Robbie Mustoe described it as one of the most honest post-match interviews he's seen from Jose Mourinho. After Chelsea's 2-1 loss to Leicester at the King Power stadium, Mourinho confessed the Foxes were better for the first hour, but he also admitted to feeling "betrayed" by players' inability to execute the game plan […]

Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez fired Leicester back to the top of the Premier League and extended Chelsea's miserable season with a 2-1 victory on Monday that heaped renewed pressure on Jose Mourinho. Mahrez created Vardy's 15th goal of the season with a wonderful cross on 34 minutes. Then the Algeria winger scored superbly on […]

La Liga side Espanyol replaced the sacked Sergio Gonzalez with former Romanian international Constantin Galca as the club's head coach on Monday. Gonzalez was fired after a run of just one win in their last eight games left Espanyol three points above the relegation zone in 12th. Galca played over 100 times for Espanyol between […]

Some soccer fans claim that UEFA's European Championship, and not the World Cup, is soccer's most prestigious tournament. While any tournament without the South American powers cannot be elevated to such an exalted status, Saturday's group stage draw for Euro 2016 shows why the tournament is so highly regarded. For two nations recently ascended to […]

European champions Barcelona were greeted like rock stars on their arrival in Japan on Monday to contest the Club World Cup, looking bleary-eyed after a long flight from Spain. Around 300 screaming fans greeted the Spanish giants trying to take pictures of superstars Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez as they swept through Narita airport […]

La Liga side Espanyol sacked head coach Sergio Gonzalez on Monday after a run of just one win in their past eight games. "Espanyol have decided in the past few hours to release the Catalan coach from his duties," the club said in a statement on their website. MORE LA LIGA: Barcelona targets €1 billion […]

Michel Platini may refuse to attend a FIFA hearing to defend himself against misconduct accusations after a spokesman was quoted as saying that the Frenchman would get a long ban, his lawyer said on Saturday. FIFA's action against Platini and world body president Sepp Blatter took a stunning new twist when FIFA ethics committee spokesman […]

Josh King returned to haunt Manchester United on Saturday as his goal earned Bournemouth a memorable 2-1 victory that completed a miserable week for Louis van Gaal's beleaguered team. United were hoping to turn the page on their mid-week Champions League exit, but Junior Stanislas put Bournemouth in front straight from a corner after 100 […]

England and Wales will meet at Euro 2016 after Saturday's Euro 2016 draw in Paris for next year's 24-team finals paired them together in Group B, while world champions Germany can look forward to meeting neighbors Poland. The British rivals were drawn alongside Fabio Capello's former team Russia and tournament debutants Slovakia, and will meet […]

Goal-line technology is likely to be used during Euro 2016 as well as in next season's Champions League, with UEFA saying a final decision will be taken in January. Currently, the technology is used in the English Premier League, Italy's Serie A, the German Bundesliga and Ligue 1 in France. However, FIFA brought it in […]

Louis van Gaal played down the scale of the storm gathering around Manchester United and claimed that expectations of the Old Trafford club need to be reassessed. Van Gaal's management of United has come under closer scrutiny following his team’s exit from the Champions League at the group stage following their 3-2 defeat at Wolfsburg […]

UEFA announced on Friday that there will be a substantial increase in prize money for the nations competing at the Euro 2016 finals in France. Ahead of Saturday's draw in Paris for the first ever 24-team finals, European soccer's governing body said the total prize fund had gone up to 301 million euros (£217.5m; $331m) […]

Barcelona are aiming to become the world's highest earning club in the next six years and are determined to counter England's Premier League, club president Josep Maria Bartomeu said in an interview published Friday. The Spanish giants will make about 600 million euros ($658 million) this year, but Bartomeu told the Financial Times newspaper he […]

Manchester City's Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure was voted the BBC's African Footballer of the Year for the second time on Friday. Toure helped his country win the African Nations Cup in February and has maintained his high standards with City, who finished second in the Premier League last season and are challenging for the […]

Naturally, Real Madrid and Barcelona have hogged the spotlight in La Liga this term. The struggles of Rafael Benitez, the form of Neymar, the erratic play of Cristiano Ronaldo and an emphatic 4-0 win for Barca over their great rivals have been prominent in the Spanish press during the early stages of the campaign. The […]