MLS-OneFootball deal seeks to expand global audience

MLS-OneFootball deal seeks to expand global audience

Lionel Messi #10 of Inter Miami controls the ball during the second half of the game against St. Louis City at Chase Stadium on June 01, 2024 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Megan Briggs | Getty Images Major League Soccer is teaming up with German digital media platform OneFootball to provide highlights, stats and other content … Read more

Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer legend, announces retirement

Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer legend, announces retirement

Canadian legend Christine Sinclair announced Friday that she will retire from playing professional soccer at the end of the season. The 41-year-old from Burnaby, B.C., said in a post on Instagram that she will finish out the National Women’s Soccer League campaign with the Portland Thorns, who are scheduled to finish out the regular season … Read more

Man City rescues a point in the 8th minute of stoppage time to draw 2-2 with 10-man Arsenal

Man City rescues a point in the 8th minute of stoppage time to draw 2-2 with 10-man Arsenal

John Stones rescued a point for Manchester City with an injury-time equalizer to draw 2-2 with 10-man Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday. Arsenal had looked like snapping City’s 47-game unbeaten home run after Gabriel Magalhaes’ first-half header had put the visitors 2-1 up at the Etihad Stadium. But substitute Stones fired in from … Read more

FIFA teams up with UN health agency for campaign to educate world soccer about concussion

FIFA teams up with UN health agency for campaign to educate world soccer about concussion

GENEVA — FIFA teamed up with the World Health Organization on Wednesday for a campaign to educate the soccer industry about the risks of concussion injuries. “Concussion is a public health issue of concern at all levels of football, and many other sports, requiring greater levels of awareness and action,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus … Read more

Salvatore ‘Totò’ Schillaci, the Italy striker who was top scorer at 1990 World Cup, dies at 59

Salvatore ‘Totò’ Schillaci, the Italy striker who was top scorer at 1990 World Cup, dies at 59

ROME — Salvatore “Totò” Schillaci, the Italy striker who was top scorer at the 1990 World Cup that his country hosted and epitomized a player exceeding expectations on soccer’s biggest stage, has died. He was 59. Schillaci had been hospitalized in Palermo following treatment for colon cancer. The Palermo Civico hospital said in a statement … Read more

Harry Kane scores 4 goals in Bayern’s 9-2 rout of Zagreb and breaks a record that Wayne Rooney held

Harry Kane scores 4 goals in Bayern’s 9-2 rout of Zagreb and breaks a record that Wayne Rooney held

MUNICH — Harry Kane broke Wayne Rooney’s record for the most Champions League goals by an English player when the Bayern Munich striker scored four times against Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday. It was one of several records broken as Bayern routed Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 in one of the highest-scoring games in Champions League history — … Read more

Glasgow secures funding to become 2026 Commonwealth Games hosts after Victoria withdrawal due to costs | Athletics News

Glasgow secures funding to become 2026 Commonwealth Games hosts after Victoria withdrawal due to costs | Athletics News

Glasgow to be named 2026 Commonwealth Games hosts after Australian state of Victoria withdrew as hosts last year, due to rising costs; Commonwealth Games Federation pledged a £100m investment while the UK government and Australian authorities also guaranteed support Last Updated: 17/09/24 2:10pm Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and is set to do so … Read more

Arsenal weathers pressure to beat Tottenham 1-0 in feisty north London derby

Arsenal weathers pressure to beat Tottenham 1-0 in feisty north London derby

LONDON — Arsenal is leaving archrival Tottenham’s stadium with a win for the third season in a row after Gabriel Magalhaes’ second-half header settled a feisty and physical north London derby in the Premier League on Sunday. Tottenham had Arsenal pegged back for much of the game but couldn’t make its chances count as the … Read more

England could be barred from UEFA competitions if new regulator’s powers are not ‘strictly limited’

England could be barred from UEFA competitions if new regulator’s powers are not ‘strictly limited’

MANCHESTER, England — England and English soccer teams could be removed from UEFA competitions if a new regulator is considered to be “Government interference” in the sport. In a letter sent by UEFA to the U.K.’s new culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, European soccer’s governing body raised concerns about a proposed independent football regulator (IFR) in … Read more

David Beckham among soccer dignitaries attending ex-England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson’s funeral

David Beckham among soccer dignitaries attending ex-England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson’s funeral

TORSBY, Sweden — David Beckham and former England coach Roy Hodgson were among the soccer dignitaries who attended the funeral of Sven-Goran Eriksson on Friday in the Swedish manager’s small hometown of Torsby. Eriksson’s wooden coffin was covered in white flowers and surrounded by six tall candles and other floral wreaths as the ceremony began … Read more