FIFA is looking to recruit a lawyer with experience in South America to help its lead ethics prosecutor. FIFA says courtroom "experience gained in South America is a must" for a legal counsel whose duties will include briefing the "chairperson of the investigatory chamber" before...
SAO PAULO, Brazil: Brazilian soccer great Pele has collapsed with exhaustion and been forced to cancel a long-planned trip to London this weekend, the Football Writers Association (FWA) said Friday. The FWA was due to host a dinner in his honor at the Savoy hotel on Sunday but said the...
Mohamed Salah won African Player of the Year Thursday, a reward for success on all fronts in 2017 for the Egypt forward after he inspired his country to a long-awaited World Cup place and had a phenomenal start to his career at Liverpool. Salah won ahead of Liverpool teammate Sadio Mane...
Liverpool and Egypt striker Mohamed Salah was named Arab Player of the Year for 2017 Monday in a poll of around 100 sports journalists from several Arab countries. Salah, 25, has been an instant success at Liverpool since joining from AS Roma, scoring 17 goals in the Premier League...
Liverpool celebrated Virgil van Dijk's arrival at Anfield by coming from behind to beat Leicester City 2-1 thanks to Mohamed Salah's brace, while Danny Drinkwater scored his first Chelsea goal in a 5-0 rout of Stoke City. Van Dijk, signed from Southampton for a world record fee for a...
Israeli players have been denied visas to participate in a speed chess championship hosted by Saudi Arabia this week, a vice president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) said on Sunday. Seven Israeli players had requested visas for the tournament on Dec. 26-30. It would have marked...
Real Madrid realistically need to end Barcelona’s 24-match unbeaten run to maintain hopes of retaining their La Liga title when Spanish football’s two behemoths meet in the Clasico Saturday. Barca lead fourth-placed Madrid by 11 points at the top of the table, albeit Real do have a game...
Australia’s football association failed to pass a vote to secure reforms demanded by FIFA at an annual general meeting on Thursday, paving the way for the global body to take over the governance of soccer in the country. Football Federation Australia (FFA) said it had fallen short...
FIFA's number two Fatma Samoura said Tuesday she hoped the criminal investigations into the sale of World Cup rights to the Qatari-owned beIN Media group will not "disrupt" Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup. Swiss prosecutors said last week a criminal corruption probe targeting...
Omar al-Soma buried a late penalty as war-torn Syria drew 1-1 with Australia to put their two-legged World Cup play-off on a knife-edge on Thursday. Australia were within sight of victory after Robbie Kruse's first-half goal, but when Mathew Leckie nudged Soma on 84 minutes the...
(Marca)- Real Madrid have become accustomed to living without its front three. What Florentino Perez put together has been separated again because of a curse that returns with the injury of Karim Benzema, just before Cristiano Ronaldo, the member of the attack that was missing at the...
Philippe Coutinho will be left out of Liverpool's squad for Saturday's Premier League trip to Manchester City, with manager Juergen Klopp saying the Brazilian needs training time to make up for his disrupted pre-season.Coutinho, who has not played for Liverpool so far this season due a back...
(Marca)- The summer of 2017 will be remembered by Josep Maria Bartomeu as the most agitated in his presidency of Barcelona. Problems have been constant and to compund matters, he has not always been right with his statements. Neymar's departureAt the beginning of summer, everything was...
(Marca)- World number one Rafa Nadal provided Russian teenager Andrey Rublev with a tennis lesson on Wednesday, racing into the semi-finals of the U.S. Open with a ruthless 6-1 6-2 6-2 win.The 19-year-old, who grew up idolising Nadal and had the Spaniard's poster pinned up on his bedroom wall...
(Marca)- If Argentina don't manage to climb the South American World Cup qualifying table, Lionel Messi might miss Barcelona's encounter against Sevilla in November. The fifth-ranked team of the qualifiers is set to fight for their spot in the upcoming World Cup in Russia through...
Against all odds, Syria’s footballers have overcome more than six years of civil war and internal political rifts to raise hopes of qualifying for their first ever World Cup. Forced to play their home games away due to security concerns, Ayman Hakeem’s Syria have embarrassed a...
Syria earned a vital 3-1 win against Qatar to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for a first ever World Cup. Omar Kharbin scored in each half and Mahmoud Al-Mawas added a third in injury time as Syria moved above Uzbekistan into third in their group. The top two teams qualify...
Ousmane Dembele's transfer to Barcelona in a deal worth up to 147 million euros ($175 million), making him the world's second most expensive player after Neymar, is the latest dizzying move fuelled by TV money and Gulf-based club owners. The deal agreed Friday to bring 20-year-old French...
Neymar's acrimonious split from Barcelona escalated on Thursday as the Paris St Germain forward announced plans to sue the Liga club, two days after Barca revealed they were suing the Brazilian over breach of contract. Reports in the Spanish media said that Neymar had filed a lawsuit via...
Barcelona are seeking at least 8.5 million euros ($10 million) from Neymar for breach of contract, the club said on Tuesday as the bitter fallout rumbles on from his world record 222-million-euro move to Paris Saint-Germain. "In this lawsuit, the club demands the amount already paid as...
