Footballers have frequently spoken about how the periods of “rest and relaxation” at major international tournaments are merely a euphemism for being bored out of their collective minds. It’s always a fascinating subplot to a month-long period spent holed up in a resort, doubly so during the time of Covid-19 — when leaving the hotel, or inviting someone inside, is bound to cause a national stir (see: Chile).
Mirando y mirando su feed de Instagram, en esas vacías horas de concentración durante la Copa América, Lionel Messi notó hace unos días que la cuenta del canal de televisión argentino TyC Sports destacaba el video de un aficionado brasileño que se había tatuado en la espalda una gigantesca imagen de él.
Manchester City has officially started going after last season's Premier League leader in goals and assists, Harry Kane. Even though Tottenham doesn't want to move on from Kane, the 27-year-old has reportedly expressed his wishes to be gone. Man City reportedly sent Spurs an original offer of around $140 million guaranteed with an opportunity to swap players.
Looking at North Macedonia's obscure warmups heading into its match against Ukraine, there is no surprise it later lost. As fun as it looked, with the players racing up the pitch and passing the ball between each other using upturned cones, it didn't seem like the appropriate warmup for the Euro 2020 Group C match on Thursday.
European soccer's governing body UEFA has responded to Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo's removal of a Coca-Cola bottle at a Euro 2020 news conference by telling teams they have contractual obligations towards tournament sponsors.
Ronaldo moved Coca-Cola bottles aside as he sat down to speak to the media on the eve of Tuesday’s Group F opener against Hungary in Budapest, which Portugal won 3-0.
On Wednesday, Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku announced that his team planned to kick the ball out of play in the 10th minute of the game against Denmark to pay tribute to Christian Eriksen. The Eriksen tenth minute moment on Thursday was as beautiful as you could imagine.
Former Argentinian forward Gonzalo Higuaín had low expectations coming to MLS but now is learning to respect the competition. The 33-year-old exclaimed he expected to play with a cigarette in his mouth, it was going to be that easy.
Through seven matches in the 2021 MLS season, Higuaín has four goals and one assist. He was quoted on Christain Vieri's Twitch live stream a few days ago saying, "I thought I would come to MLS and play with a cigarette in my mouth and instead it is difficult."
FC Barcelona released new home kits for the 2021-2022 La Liga season and they're chaotically terrible. The new shirts appear as if the creators never agreed on a set design and continued the fight throughout the process.
With Barcelona being in severe debt, we should have assumed the new kits would be this bad. They feature verticle traditional blaugrana stripes and a new design inspired by the team crest. With tons of stripes and lots of colors, these kits fail to impress.
Hubo un tiempo en que era común ver a algún futbolista sin un par de dientes. Quizás por situación económica o simplemente porque la tecnología no estaba en un lugar como para ir y reemplazar una pieza perdida. Sin embargo, los años han pasado y hoy estamos en un momento en la historia de la humanidad en que los jugadores tienen sonrisas casi perfectas y hasta pueden darse el lujo de incrustarse diamantes en ellos.
Un ejemplo es Alexis Vega, delantero de las Chivas de Guadalajara, quien por estos días presume en redes sociales una brillante sonrisa con piedras preciosas.
¡Finalmente tenemos Copa América! Este domingo, la selección de Brasil inició el torneo con una victoria por 3-0 sobre una disminuida Venezuela, en el Estádio Nacional de Brasília ‘Mané Garrincha’ y en un partido jugado sin público, tal como será todo el torneo.
La Canarinha puso a sus mejores hombres en el campo, mientras que la Vinotinto debió convocar a 15 jugadores de emergencia, debido a un brote de Covid-19 que dejó al menos a ocho jugadores fuera de la convocatoria, entre ellos el capitán Tomás Rincón.