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 ...
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 ...
On Monday, Brazil open their Copa América campaign against Costa Rica at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT) at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The game marks the first official match under head coach Dorival Júnior. After strong performances in friendlies against England and Spain, and a U.S. warm-up that included a win over Mexico and a draw with the ...
Corinthians president Augusto Melo announced that the club is planning to sign four high-profile players to strengthen the squad and improve the team’s performance for the rest of the season. The statement came during a closed-door meeting at Parque São Jorge, where a group of fans demanded answers about the team’s current situation. The political crisis and poor results on ...