Brazil called up eight English Premier League players on Friday for World Cup qualifiers while hoping to avoid a repeat of farcical scenes which saw health officials come on the field to interrupt the team's match against Argentina earlier this (...)
Belgium trailed 2-0 at the start of the day in Asuncion, Paraguay, after losing its opening singles on Saturday, but advanced to the Qualifiers next year after Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen won their doubles match, followed by reverse singles (...)
Jimmy Greaves, one of England's greatest goal-scorers who was prolific for Tottenham, Chelsea and AC Milan has died. He was 81.
With 266 goals in 379 appearances, Greaves was the all-time record scorer for Tottenham, which announced his death on (...)
The Champions League group stage starts Tuesday with a match between traditional heavyweights Barcelona and Bayern Munich, but big-spending upstarts elsewhere are the title favorites this season after a summer of eye-catching transfers.
Paris (...)
Midfielder Ander Herrera scored twice and Kylian Mbappe added another as French league leader Paris Saint-Germain routed promoted Clermont 4-0 on Saturday to make it five straight wins.
Midfielder Idrissa Gueye came off the bench to add the fourth (...)
Brazil has triggered a FIFA regulation in a bid to prevent eight players from competing for their respective clubs in the English Premier League this weekend.
They had been called up for World Cup qualifiers but didn't travel after Premier League (...)
Disciplinary proceedings were opened by FIFA against Argentina and Brazil on Tuesday over the chaos that led to their World Cup qualifier being suspended after Brazilian health officials stormed the field to question the quarantine status of (...)
Four Argentina footballers are being investigated by Brazil federal police for allegedly providing false information upon arrival in Sao Paulo for a World Cup qualifying match.
The Brazil-Argentina qualifier on Sunday was interrupted after seven (...)
Argentina's World Cup qualifier at Brazil was interrupted after just seven minutes Sunday in a wild dispute over coronavirus concerns, with the game later suspended by the referee.
Just after the start of a matchup of South American powers featuring (...)
Four of Argentina's players from the English Premier League were ordered to quarantine by Brazil's health agency ahead of the World Cup qualifier between the South American rivals later Sunday.
The four players were still seen getting on the (...)
Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba have taken pay cuts at Barcelona to allow the team to register Sergio Aguero to play in the Spanish league, the Catalan club said Tuesday.
They follow another senior player, Gerard Pique, in taking a salary reduction (...)
Brazil coach Tite remained hopeful on Monday that nine of his players in the English Premier League will show up for upcoming World Cup qualifiers.
Meanwhile, Argentina had almost all 30 members of its chosen squad _ including four from England _ (...)
Inter Milan signed forward Joaquin Correa from Serie A rival Lazio on Thursday.
The Argentina forward arrives on a one-year loan but with the obligation to make the transfer permanent.
Correa signed a four-year contract and will be reunited with (...)
The U.S. Department of Justice declared FIFA and other soccer bodies to be victims of corrupt former officials and said Tuesday they should get more than $200 million from cash forfeited in a sprawling investigation.
A first amount of $32.2 million (...)
Saudi Arabia is allowing the entry of fully-vaccinated foreign workers from several countries including Egypt, the Egyptian Ministry of Manpower announced on Tuesday.
According to the new Saudi directives, which have been reported to the diplomatic (...)
Jose Peseiro quit as Venezuela head coach on Friday, just two weeks before the national team resumes South American World Cup qualifying with games against Argentina, Peru and Paraguay.
Venezuelan soccer federation president Jorge Gimenez told a (...)
Egypt's national team maintained their position at 46th place in FIFA's August world rankings that were released on Thursday.
The Pharaohs stayed in 6th place among African countries, behind Senegal at 21st place, Tunisia at 28th, Algeria at 30th, (...)
Lionel Messi finally signed his eagerly anticipated Paris Saint-Germain contract on Tuesday night to complete the move that confirms the end of a career-long association with Barcelona and sends PSG into a new era.
PSG said in a statement that the (...)
Lionel Messi is traveling to France after agreeing to join Paris Saint-Germain, a person with knowledge of the negotiations has told The Associated Press, paving the way for one of the game's greats to play for a new club after spending his entire (...)
Just as it was Egypt's largest delegation ever in an Olympic Games, so was its harvest of medals. The Egyptians had participated in the 17-day 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a country-record contingent of 134 athletes who competed in 23 sports. After it (...)
If Lionel Messi does become the latest star to help Paris Saint-Germain's quest to win the elusive Champions League, coach Mauricio Pochettino must work out the best way to accommodate him in a top-heavy attack.
Messi bid a tearful farewell to (...)
Real Madrid and Barcelona expressed their opposition Thursday to the Spanish league's deal with an investment fund that secured $3.2 billion in funding to help its clubs.
The league's executive committee unanimously approved the ``strategic (...)
Barcelona's announcement that Lionel Messi would be leaving the club set Paris Saint-Germain scrambling to figure out if it could sign the most desired free agent in soccer history.
Messi called PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino, who is also from (...)
Here are some of its most important dates:
June 24, 1987 - Messi is born in Rosario, Argentina.
Dec. 14, 2000 - After his start at Newell's Old Boys as a child phenom, Messi crosses the Atlantic to try out for a spot at Barcelona's La Masia youth (...)
Egypt will likely extend this year's pause in monetary easing on Thursday and hold interest rates as the hike in global prices will trickle through to inflation, a Bloomberg survey predicted.
Authorities in Egypt are seeking to maintain foreign (...)
