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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Early Thursday morning, São Paulo lost one of its most prominent voices in sports journalism. Renowned journalist Antero Greco died at 69 after a long battle with a brain tumor, according to sources close to him. Admitted to Beneficência Portuguesa hospital in São Paulo, Greco had undergone two surgeries in recent years in his fight against the disease. A graduate ...
As the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul deals with the fallout from severe flooding, the state’s biggest clubs, Grêmio, Inter and Juventude, are focusing their efforts on helping staff and the local community, leaving soccer on the back burner for now. While Juventude have kept up their training routine, Grêmio and Inter have been inactive since last week ...
Flamengo fans went to bed with something hard to digest besides yet another Libertadores loss: the recent examples of more modest teams against the same opponents Flamengo face. Palestino, who beat Flamengo 1-0 in a nearly empty stadium in Coquimbo, Chile, on Tuesday night, are the same team that were thrashed 4-0 by Bolívar at home (playing in front of ...