U.S. soccer fans who last saw the men’s team lift the Concacaf Nations League trophy will be taken aback to see a lot of big names missing off the Gold Cup roster. Why is Pulisic not playing in Gold Cup? Where are the stars? The answer to these questions is quite simple.
Mario Balotelli. Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time. The Italian striker who dazzled the world a decade ago has drifted into an abyss of irrelevancy. So, where is Balotelli now? The 30-year-old signed a new contract that will see him playing in Turkey for the 2021-22 season.
Soccer is unique in so many ways, and perhaps no play in all of sports is more meaningful than the penalty kick.
Points are more scarce in soccer than they are in any other sport, and no other sport includes one play with such a high percentage chance of scoring.
A game that features 22 players on the pitch is condensed into a one-on-one battle for a few crucial seconds, and in the end, there are only two possible outcomes: either a goal is scored or the ball fails to cross the goal line — with the former being the most likely.
The U.S. women's soccer team is determined to make up for its quarterfinal exit in Rio and reassert their dominance at the Tokyo Olympics, while Brazil will aim to repeat as champion in the men's event after ending its long wait for gold in 2016.
The United States has won four of the six gold medals since a women's tournament was introduced to the Olympic programme at the Atlanta Games in 1996 and as current world champion it starts as clear favorite again.
El Tricolor Olímpico está confirmado. La lista de 22 jugadores que viajará a Tokio 2020 ha sido finalmente anunciada este lunes por el Comité Olímpico Mexicano y no presenta mayores sorpresas de lo que se rumoraba.
En ese sentido, más que un anuncio de convocatoria, fue una ratificación de la lista preliminar. La organización del evento, por Covid-19 o posibles lesiones, permitió hacer listas de 22 jugadores en vez de 18, facilitando el trabajo del técnico Jaime Lozano, así como del resto de selecciones que participarán en el torneo, que comienza a finales de este mes.
This is going to be old news for those who are so wise in the ways of science, but for the rest of us who read A Brief History of Time and felt their mind quickly passing the event horizon and falling into a black hole, get ready for a similar experience.
This video from Twitter user @UltraLinx was the genesis for our new way of looking at life, the universe and everything. There’s been a paradigm shift.
In football, as in life, sometimes it's better to be lucky than to be good. And if you were a decent French-speaking footballer in the first half of the 2010s, there was a chance that Newcastle United's bulging pocket book and obsession with Ligue 1 players would make you a very rich man.
The "French Revolution" began after Newcastle's Premier League promotion in 2010, as the club signed French winger Hatem Ben Arfa and Ivorian holding midfielder Cheick Tioté. Ben Arfa and Tioté were just two of the 20+ French-speaking players Newcastle signed over the next half-decade.
This could be the most underrated quarterfinal game of Euro 2020. Denmark and the Czech Republic have surpassed all expectations and have nothing to lose. The Danes have outscored their opponents 8-0 in the past two games and are a runaway train that no one can stop. Meanwhile, the Czechs have become the dark horse of the tournament and have no intentions of bowing out anytime soon. Read on for our Denmark vs Czech Republic prediction, preview and guide.
El Puebla anunció la contratación del delantero venezolano Fernando Aristeguieta, proveniente del Mazatlán FC. La llegada del Colorado es para sustituir la baja del ahora internacional peruano Santiago Ormeño, quien se marchó al León.
La presentación del jugador, por cierto, fue maravillosa. La Franja subió un video a sus redes sociales y que a muchos seguro les recordó la serie Vikings de Netflix. Obviamente, nada es al azar: uno de los apodos de Aristeguieta es El Vikingo.