On the eve of the 2025 World Surf League (WSL) season, world and Olympic champion Ítalo Ferreira used his free time for an adventure in Hawaii, testing the power of an unusual and challenging wave: the “Hawaiian pororoca,” a nod to the famous tidal bore of Brazil’s Amazon. The phenomenon happens at the Waimea River, where local surfers and residents ...
Al Hilal announced on Monday (the 28th) the termination of forward Neymar’s contract, which he had signed with the Saudi club in August 2023. The move clears the way for the player’s return to Santos, the club where he began his career and which is already in advanced talks to bring its idol home. In an official statement, Al Hilal ...
Nearly three months after the 2023/24 Premier League season ended, English soccer’s top competition returns on Friday, kicking off the 2024/25 season. Twenty clubs are competing for the title, and the stand-alone Matchweek 1 opener pits Manchester United against Fulham at the iconic Old Trafford. Manchester United, who finished eighth in last season’s Premier League, take the field looking to ...
The Copa do Brasil round of 16 draw will be held on Thursday at CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. Sixteen teams remain in the competition after winning their third-round ties. The last qualifiers were decided over the weekend: Grêmio, Juventude and Athletico reached the round of 16 by getting past Operário-PR, Internacional and Ypiranga-RS, respectively. All of those ties ...
With Euro 2024 over, Kylian Mbappé and Real Madrid are about to begin a new journey together. The Spanish club has already started preparing for the French star’s highly anticipated unveiling, scheduled for Tuesday. A video posted on the club’s social media showed the progress on the Santiago Bernabéu field, just one day before the event. The footage shows an ...
What should have been a celebration of top-level soccer turned into scenes of chaos and disorder at the 2024 Copa América final between Argentina and Colombia at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Scheduled to kick off at 8 p.m. ET, the game was delayed by 1 hour and 20 minutes because of unrest at the stadium entrances. The ...
What can you say about Corinthians, a team that managed the feat of bringing Vasco back to life? On Wednesday night at São Januário, Vasco beat Corinthians 2-0, ending a 14-year winless streak against the São Paulo club. That feat shows the sorry state Corinthians are in this 2024 season, a crisis that Ramón Díaz, the club’s new savior, will ...
Brazil drew 1-1 with Colombia on Wednesday night in California, with goals from Raphinha and Muñoz, and finished second in Group D. As a result, they will face Uruguay, winners of Group C, on Saturday at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT) in Las Vegas in the Copa América quarterfinals. Brazil did not play well, and the players acknowledged the ...
The Paulistão derby four months ago was the coach’s best game in charge of the Timão, but the relationship has worn thin since then and his work is causing frustration at the club. From heaven to hell. The cliché used to describe life’s ups and downs fits António Oliveira’s situation between Corinthians’ games against Palmeiras this season. The Portuguese coach’s ...
With just 30 days to go before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the French capital faces one of the biggest challenges in its history: making the Seine River safe for swimming in time for the swimming and triathlon events, as well as for hosting the opening ceremony. Although the temporary venues are on schedule, bad weather has hampered efforts to ...