Stoppage time in soccer is getting out of control. At the World Cup in Qatar, we saw how the customary three to five added minutes went right to the 10+ zone, while FIFA — through the International Football Association Board (IFAB) — recently suggested leagues worldwide follow suit as a way to "increase the net playing time and reduce time-wasting."
Alejandro Zendejas has made an official decision. Despite attempts from the Mexico national team to lure him to their program, the Club América winger announced on social media Tuesday that his future belongs to the USMNT.
And the USMNT welcomed his commitment.
OFFICIAL: Alex Zendejas has committed to the USMNT pic.twitter.com/C4KTGoFTqi
An investigation into former U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter's dispute with his wife outside a bar in 1992 concluded that U.S. Soccer was not in the wrong for hiring him as the national team coach, the federation said on Monday.
The investigators' conclusions mean there is now no legal impediment to employing Berhalter, who remains a candidate for the coaching job which is now held by Anthony Hudson on an interim basis.
¿Qué tal, tropa? La Jornada 11 del Clausura 2023 es historia y dejó varias conversaciones sobre la mesa. Entre ellas:
For the third time in seven seasons, Minnesota United's home opener was played in snow. It wasn't nearly as cold as the infamous World Cup qualifier between the USMNT and Honduras at Allianz Field in February of last year, but Saturday's 30-degree weather and continuous flurries made for a sticky layer of snow outside of the well-maintained 18-yard boxes.
Angolan club Petro Atlético's goalkeeper Hugo Marques was attacked by a spectator in the final minutes of his team's 2-0 defeat by holders Wydad Casablanca in the African Champions League on Saturday.
Video footage from behind the goal showed a man running on to the pitch and up to Marques, then saying something to the keeper before pushing him.
The two exchanged a flurry of punches before security guards and Marques's teammates intervened and the supporter was overpowered and taken off the pitch. The keeper was treated by doctors and the game restarted shortly afterwards.
BOURNEMOUTH — Liverpool's Mohamed Salah missed a second-half penalty as his side fell to a 1-0 defeat away at Bournemouth, with Philip Billing's goal lifting the south-coast side off the bottom of the Premier League table and out of the relegation zone.
The win in the first league game of the weekend sees the Cherries rise from last spot to 16th in the table on 24 points, while Liverpool languish in fifth on 42 points after wasting a chance to close the three-point gap to fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur.
Celaya fue una visita ingrata para el Tepatitlán. No solo porque los Toros se quedaron con la victoria (2-1) en un duelo válido por la J10 de la Liga MX de Expansión, sino que también por su nefasta exhibición de malos modales, reflejada en el estado en que dejaron el vestuario que les facilitaron en el Gregorio "Tepa" Gómez.
Finalizado el partido, la gente del Tepatitlán hizo una ronda por el estadio antes de apagar las luces y casi se cae de espalda al ver la destrucción causada por el plantel del Celaya en el vestidor.
Luego de la fractura de cráneo que sufrió en 2020, Raúl Jiménez no volvió a ser el mismo. A estas alturas es un cliché decirlo, pero los números no mienten. Pese al admirable esfuerzo que pone en el campo, el Lobo ya no es la máquina de goles que enamoró a los fanáticos del Wolverhampton.
Peor aún, es cada vez más raro verlo anotando y este dato es revelador: hoy 10 de marzo, el delantero mexicano cumplió un año sin hacer un gol en la Premier League.
BARCELONA — Spanish prosecutors have filed a complaint against Barcelona and two of the LaLiga club's ex-presidents over alleged payments to a company owned by a senior refereeing official to influence match results, the public prosecutor's office said on Friday.
A judge has yet to decide whether to take up the case.
The club allegedly paid over $7.8 million between 2001 and 2018 to firms owned by Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, who was vice-president of the refereeing committee of the Spanish football association in 1993-2018.