11:48 AM ET Nearly 900 Liverpool fans who attended last year’s Champions League final in Paris have filed legal action against European football’s governing body for personal injuries allegedly caused by chaos outside the stadium. Law firm Leigh Day filed a lawsuit against UEFA and UEFA Events on Monday, according to publicly available records of
8:58 AM ET Gwendolyn Oxenham Jun Endo trains for Angel City FC without shoes on Aug. 10, 2022, in Los Angeles. Will Navarro/Angel City FC If you were to show up an hour early to an Angel City game and skip the very cool fanfest activities happening outside BMO Stadium, you could behold the vision that
4:30 AM ET At least this time Lionel Messi would not have been surprised; being booed by his own Paris Saint-Germain fans is not something new to him. The last two home matches might have been difficult, but last season, after losing to Real Madrid in the Champions League, the whole Parc des Princes whistled
6:37 AM ET Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Luis Enrique has flown into London for talks on taking over the manager’s job at Chelsea, sources have told ESPN. The former Barcelona and Spain coach arrived in London on Wednesday morning for discussions over the position — vacant since Graham Potter was sacked on Sunday after seven
4:59 AM ET Lionel Messi is actively considering a move to Saudi Arabia that would see him join Al Hilal, the city rivals of Cristiano Ronaldo‘s Al Nassr, when his Paris Saint-Germain contract expires this summer, a source familiar with negotiations has told ESPN. Having opened talks with Messi and his advisors late last year,
5:19 PM ET Juventus and Internazionale shared the spoils in an energetic 1-1 Coppa Italia semifinal first-leg draw on Tuesday, after a stoppage-time penalty by Romelu Lukaku cancelled out a late goal by home-side midfielder Juan Cuadrado. Juventus could have gone ahead through Angel Di Maria in the fourth minute, but Inter keeper Samir Handanovic
4:48 PM ET Freiburg stunned favourites Bayern Munich 2-1 in their German Cup quarterfinal on Tuesday thanks to a second-half stoppage-time penalty from Lucas Hoeler. In a shock defeat for the Bavarians — and new coach Thomas Tuchel’s second game in charge — Hoeler sent keeper Yann Sommer the wrong way to book their spot
8:00 AM ET What might go down as Aly Wagner’s greatest assist occurred long after she retired as a professional soccer player. It came in the summer of 2022, when she pitched Charlotte Waxman, the wife of Sixth Street CEO Alan Waxman, on the virtues of a NWSL expansion team in the San Francisco Bay
10:32 PM ET Liverpool have called for an end to “vile chants” about the Hillsborough Stadium disaster after they were heard during Tuesday’s goalless Premier League draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. The 1989 FA Cup semifinal was the scene of Britain’s worst sporting disaster when 97 Liverpool fans lost their lives after a crush
4:53 PM ET Chelsea and Liverpool were both left frustrated after a goalless draw at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday in the home side’s first game since the dismissal of Graham Potter as manager. Chelsea, under the charge of interim boss Bruno Saltor, were the better, more dangerous team but, as so often during Potter’s ill-fated
6:35 PM ET LONDON — Chelsea cannot afford to let their season drift like Tuesday’s performance against Liverpool did. Following Graham Potter’s sacking, the Blues are a club in stasis, temporarily guided by an interim head coach with no experience of leading a side at the highest level. Bruno Saltor, a member of Potter’s backroom
4:05 PM ET Associated Press Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior testified Tuesday against a Mallorca fan accused of racially insulting him at a LaLiga game, saying he will not accept an apology. Vinicius provided testimony to a judge analysing evidence against the fan accused of directing a racial slur at the Brazil forward in a
5:37 PM ET LONDON — Chelsea and Liverpool extended their miserable Premier League seasons by playing out a dismal goalless draw at Stamford Bridge in the home team’s first game since the sacking of manager Graham Potter. Reece James and Kai Havertz saw goals ruled out by VAR for Chelsea and Mateo Kovacic missed an
1:18 PM ET Manchester United will face Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund in July in Las Vegas as a part of the club’s summer tour to the United States, the Premier League club said on Tuesday. The match will be played at the Allegiant Stadium on July 30 and is the second fixture of the tour,
1:42 PM ET Cesar Hernandez The match between Club America and Leon spiraled into chaos after referee Fernando Hernandez kneed Lucas Romero in the groin. no_source Liga MX referee Fernando Hernandez was given a 12-game suspension after kneeing Leon’s Lucas Romero in the groin during a regular season match in Week 13, the league’s disciplinary committee
8:39 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez has said the side’s three previous Clasico wins this season mean nothing and Real Madrid are the favourites heading into Wednesday’s Copa del Rey semifinal. Barca have won four of their six meetings with Madrid since Xavi took charge, including the last three, and
11:47 AM ET Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic has been banned for eight games by the English Football Association (FA) after pushing referee Chris Kavanagh in his team’s ill-tempered FA Cup quarterfinal loss to Manchester United last month. Mitrovic received a straight red card for his actions, but the FA previously said that the standard three-match
8:46 AM ET Chelsea are considering between five and seven different managers to replace Graham Potter as head coach, although Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi is not in the running, sources have told ESPN. Potter was sacked on Sunday after less than seven months in charge as the first managerial appointment of the Todd Boehly/Clearlake
5:57 AM ET Lionel Messi is unlikely to reach an agreement with Paris Saint-Germain to extend his stay at the club, sources told ESPN. French outlet L’Equipe were first to report the story. Negotiations between the two parties are at a standstill, casting major doubts over the World Cup winner’s future in Paris, according to
2:54 PM ET United States women’s defender Tierna Davidson wants to see her team use its “influential voice” to advocate for equal treatment of female players in countries around the globe. Davidson, who was on the USWNT that won the World Cup in France four years ago, was announced as the newest member of the