Let’s put it bluntly: Last week was a rough one for the US men’s national team. Another round of international fixtures came and went, with disappointing results only topped by baffling managerial decisions. These were friendly games, which are the right time to be experimenting, so perspective is needed. But an off-and-on performance against Peru […]

Madrid (AFP) – Cristiano Ronaldo has more goalscoring records in his sights when Real Madrid get their Champions League campaign underway at home to Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday. Ronaldo became Los Blancos' all-time top goalscorer in La Liga on Saturday with five goals in a 6-0 rout of Espanyol to move ahead of club legends […]

Paris (AFP) – Zlatan Ibrahimovic gets the chance to face his hometown club, and the team with whom he started his career, as Paris Saint-Germain begin their Champions League campaign against Malmo on Tuesday. The French champions and the Swedish title holders meet at the Parc des Princes in the opening round of games in […]

Right knee injured on Saturday after foul by Palace's Dann Silva, Sterling expected to be available Fernandinho, Nasri miss training, expected to play Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Sergio Aguero will miss Manchester City's Champions League opener at home to Juventus on Tuesday due to a knee injury, manager Manuel Pellegrini revealed on Monday. The […]

The mutually rewarding relationship between super agent Jorge Mendes and Real Madrid — specifically, its club president Florentino Perez — is beginning to wind down. Over the past several seasons, the former semi-professional soccer player, DJ and nightclub owner has represented a number of players in the Real Madrid squad: Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe, Angel di […]

The National Women's Soccer League will expand to Orlando next season, according to a report today in the Guardian. The franchise would be the 10th in the United States' women's professional league and the circuit's first foray into the U.S. southeast. The franchise would be a notable addition in what will be a landmark year […]

FIFA has continued its investigation of Barcelona and is considering sanctioning the La Liga side further due to its unrepentant exploitation and trafficking of children into the club's youth academy, La Masia. In April 2014, FIFA issued a two-window transfer embargo on Barcelona after the Catalan giants were found guilty of repeatedly breaking rules governing […]

Here are the 10 things we learned from Week 28 of the 2015 MLS season. 1. Doors remain open It’s been a tough few weeks for the better teams in MLS – even more so than usual – and this week saw teams mostly fail to take advantage of major opportunities as the regular season […]

Manchester United take on PSV Eindhoven in their first Champions League group match on Tuesday. Here, Press Association Sport looks at five talking points ahead of the match in Holland. 1) WILL ANTHONY MARTIAL START? Only ardent fans of Ligue 1 knew who Anthony Martial was before transfer deadline day – even his new team-mates […]

Manchester United have confirmed that captain Wayne Rooney will miss Tuesday's Champions League game against PSV. United fly out to Holland on Monday afternoon ahead of their first Champions League group stage match, but Rooney will not be on the plane. The United forward suffered a hamstring injury last week and was not among the […]

"You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone." Those were the sage words of Joni Mitchell and it certainly applied to Olympique Lyonnais’ case, the big yellow taxi excepted of course. On a cold, rainy evening yesterday at Stade de Gerland, Hubert Fournier’s team huffed and puffed but were left frustrated against a well-drilled […]

Claudio Ranieri hailed the spirit and character of his players after seeing Leicester stage a remarkable comeback to defeat Midlands rivals Aston Villa 3-2. The Foxes looked like losing their unbeaten start to the season after a couple of wonderful curling efforts from Jack Grealish, his first goal for Villa, and Carles Gil put the […]

Ryan Mason fired Tottenham to their first Barclays Premier League victory of the season as Sunderland were made to wait for theirs. The midfielder stabbed home an 82nd-minute winner from substitute Erik Lamela's through-ball to snatch a 1-0 win the Londoners scarcely deserved after being second-best for much of what had gone before. Jermain Defoe […]

Emmanuel Adebayor has been released from his contract with Tottenham by mutual agreement. Adebayor had not been included in the club's 25-man Barclays Premier League squad for this season or given a squad number. A statement on Spurs' official website on Sunday morning said: "We can confirm that we have reached a mutual agreement with […]

Six games into the 2015/16 Championship season and with the transfer window finally closed, Queens Park Rangers' chances of a quick return to the Premier League look remarkably better than any rational person would have believed at the start of the season. After a 2-0 away loss to Charlton on the opening day the truth, the situation really […]