After Christian Eriksen collapsed onto the pitch during the EURO 2020 Group B game between Finland and Denmark, both countries' fans and players came together to display perfect sportsmanship. As panic ensued throughout the stadium and no one knew what was happening, the moment quickly became bigger than football.
With a full docket of international soccer awaiting fans this summer, we’re going to hear plenty of national anthems. This begs the question, who has the longest national anthem?
Between the European Championship, Copa América, Gold Cup, Olympics and World Cup qualifying, we’re going to be spending a lot of time in the living room this summer. So much so that we run the risk of being judged.
But that which is exceedingly cool is beyond judgement — I think Socrates once said that — and if you turn your television area into the spot, then no one can make fun of you. They’ll just sit down too.
In perhaps the most riveting story to come out of EA Sports' FIFA franchise since four 24-year-old hackers were brought down by the FBI after making $16 million off the game, Electronic Arts has been hacked by attackers who claim to have stolen the source code for FIFA 21, the matchmaking server and the Frostbite game engine.
EA says the hack poses no risk to players.
Premier League club Norwich City on Thursday ended their partnership with kit sponsor BK8 following supporters' criticism of the Asian betting company's provocative marketing material online.
Norwich, who won the second-tier Championship last season to qualify for the top flight, had announced BK8 as their new shirt sponsor on Monday for the 2021-22 season.
LCD Soundsystem’s song “tonite” begins with a lyric that could be applicable to every UEFA European Championship anthem ever written. “Everybody’s singing the same song,” James Murphy laments. “It goes ‘tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight.’ I never realized these artists thought so much about dying.”
We’re four days away from the start of Euro 2020, and the excitement is building across the globe and in all industries. Case in point, here’s an awesome concept from Car Lease Fetcher (the UK’s first car leasing comparison site) that imagines what cleats would look like if designed by Europe’s leading car manufacturers.
Let's make this happen.
Ahead of Argentina and Lionel Messi beginning 2021 Copa América play against Chile on June 14, adidas has launched the special edition cleats that Messi will wear throughout the tournament, dubbed “El Retorno” (“The Return”).
The name comes from Messi’s transition from the Nemeziz silo back to a boot — the X50 Speedflow — that takes it’s inspiration from the F30 cleats that he wore during Barcelona’s 2007 Copa del Rey run.
It's been a pretty good couple of days for the social media team over at Glasgow-based soccer club Partick Thistle.
First, they made a brilliant signing-announcement video that combined the song "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by 90s one-hit-wonder Deep Blue Something along with a spliced message from manager Ian McCall, which went viral to the tune of 25,000 likes on Twitter.
With no due respect to the Concacaf Nations League, meaningful international soccer returns from a Covid-induced hiatus with Euro 2020, slated for June 11 to July 11. Hosted in 11 cities across Europe, the European Championship will mark the first major international tournament since the Covid-19 pandemic struck the planet. Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch Euro 2020 in the U.S., from TV to streaming.