7:57 PM ET Associated Press Bolivia’s soccer federation suspended six match officials after they added 42 minutes in a top-division league match. Palmaflor beat Blooming 3-2 on Monday in a match that was later revised by the country’s refereeing commission. The 132-minute clash took place under heavy rains in the city of Chapare, in the
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9:52 AM ET Over the next month, Real Madrid and Barcelona will meet three times. They face each other over two legs in the semifinal of the Copa del Rey, on Thursday and again, in the return game, on April 5. In the middle of those two matches, they meet at Camp Nou in what
4:41 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Alexia Putellas saw off competition from Beth Mead and Alex Morgan to win FIFA’s The Best Women’s Player award. (Photo by Eric Alonso/Getty Images) Barcelona‘s Alexia Putellas has been crowned FIFA’s The Best Women’s Player for the second year running, seeing off competition from Beth Mead and Alex Morgan
Dec 30, 2022 A question mark had surrounded Cristiano Ronaldo‘s next career move since confirmation that the forward’s second stint at Manchester United came to a premature, unceremonious end last month. 2 Related Ronaldo had his contract at Old Trafford mulched with six months to run after spending much of this season on the bench
3:25 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas has won the Ballon d’Or Feminin for a second successive year, becoming the first woman to win the award twice since it launched in 2018. Putellas, 28, was named the best women’s player in the world at the Monday gala in Paris despite being
12:40 PM ET Barcelona went top of LaLiga ahead of Real Madrid after a commanding performance against Elche, who went down to 10 men after Gonzalo Verdu received a red in the 14th minute. – Report: Barca 3-0 Elche | LaLiga table | Upcoming fixtures Robert Lewandowski scored a brace, with Memphis Depay also getting
8:30 AM ET City Football Group (CFG), owner of reigning Premier League champions Manchester City, has increased the size of its stable of clubs to 11 this week with Italian side Palermo the latest addition to the Abu Dhabi investment company’s ever-expanding portfolio. CFG counts the reigning Premier League champions as its flagship club but
10:00 AM ET What a year for women’s soccer. It’s hard to look past the achievements of Barcelona. They set the game’s attendance record, drawing 91,648 to the Camp Nou for a European tie against Wolfsburg. They won Spain’s Primera Division Femenina by winning 30 games in the 30-game season. They made it a domestic
7:47 AM ET Renato Sanches is likely to leave Lille this summer, with both PSG and AC Milan monitoring his status. Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images The summer transfer window is approaching, and there’s plenty of gossip swirling about who’s moving where. Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz on rumours, comings and goings and, of course,
6:12 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Geyse Ferreira is Barcelona’s third summer signing. Joaquin Corchero/Europa Press via Getty Images Barcelona Femeni have completed the signing of Brazilian forward Geyse Ferreira on a free transfer from Madrid CFF, the Catalan club confirmed on Sunday. Geyse, 24, joins on a two-year deal with her contact with Madrid
With the UEFA Women’s Euros coming up this summer, now is the perfect time to assess which young players are making their mark on the game. Borussia Dortmund (and soon to be Manchester City) striker Erling Haaland walked away with the No. 1 spot in ESPN’s list of male players, but who makes the grade
4:55 PM ET Sam Marsden Barcelona’s Lieke Martens celebrates after scoring the opening goal against Real Madrid in the Copa de la Reina semifinals. Diego Souto/Quality Sport Images/Getty Images Barcelona bounced back from defeat in the UEFA Women’s Champions League final by beating Real Madrid 4-0 on Wednesday to book their place in the Copa de
3:11 PM ET Sam Marsden Lyon beat Barcelona 3-1 in Turin on Saturday to win the UEFA Women’s Champions League for the eighth time and reclaim their crown as the queens of Europe. Amandine Henry, Ada Hegerberg and Catarina Macario all netted within the opening 33 minutes to leave reigning champions Barcelona with a mountain
8:27 AM ET Aitana Bonmati scored for Barcelona. Alex Caparros – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images Barcelona completed the perfect season as they beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 on Sunday to end the campaign with 30 wins from 30 Primera Division matches having wrapped up a third consecutive league title in March. Irene Paredes and Aitana Bonmati scored
6:27 PM ET Bayern’s victory over Dortmund on Saturday confirmed their 10th straight Bundesliga title and also sent a stern message to their rivals about the gap between them and everyone else. Matthias Hangst/Getty Images The European weekend was again filled with adventure and excitement as two title races (German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1) ended with
4:00 AM ET Love it or loathe it, VAR is now an established part of the modern game, and this very week marks the fifth anniversary of the first time a top-flight professional league match was overseen by the video assistant referee system. That milestone moment in soccer history took place on April 7, 2017
2:29 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona set a new world record attendance for a women’s match with 91,553 supporters attending Wednesday’s Champions League quarterfinal against Real Madrid at Camp Nou. The previous record crowd for a women’s game has stood since 1999, when 90,185 fans watched the World Cup final between the United
Mar 29, 2022 Caroline Graham Hansen was 14 when she first found out there was a women’s national team in Norway. It was only then, after 10 years of playing football for three hours every day — however cold or wet the weather would get in Oslo — that she realised the game she enjoyed
6:52 AM ET Barcelona coach Jonatan Giraldez said there is no danger of his side relaxing when they face Real Madrid in the quarterfinal of the UEFA Women’s Champions League on Tuesday. Barca beat Madrid 5-0 earlier this month to clinch a third successive Primera Division title and make it three wins out of three
3:41 AM ET The Clasico Rosarino between Newell’s Old Boys and Rosario Central in Argentina was delayed on Sunday after fans threw “bombs” onto the pitch and damaged it, Newell’s Old Boys said. Shortly before kickoff, Newell’s Old Boys said on Twitter that the Argentine Primera Division game was delayed as the referee was being