Brazil is starting Lucas Paqueta up front instead of the experienced Roberto Firmino against Venezuela in their Copa America opener on Sunday, coach Tite said.
Goalkeeper Alisson is also replacing Ederson, and left back Renan Lodi is in for Alex (...)
Striker Alexis Sanchez will not travel to Brazil with the rest of the Chile squad and will miss at least the group stage of Copa America due to a calf injury.
Chile's national team said in a statement on Saturday that 32-year-old Sanchez felt (...)
After a period of controversy over its fate, the 47th edition of the Copa America will kick off on Sunday, taking place in Brazil for the second time in a row.
The South America tournament will last until 10 July, and was supposed to be held last (...)
The interim president of the Brazilian soccer confederation said Monday that he will not fire national team coach Tite even though his players have yet to publicly say whether they will play in the upcoming Copa America.
The 82-year-old Antonio (...)
The captain of Brazil's soccer team said the players will wait until next week to comment on reports they are opposed to Brazil hosting the Copa America, with Casemiro saying any decision would be made jointly by the players and coach.
Brazil was (...)
Amid a possible player revolt, Brazil beat Ecuador 2-0 on Friday to win its fifth consecutive match in South American World Cup qualifying.
Brazil now leads the round-robin tournament with 15 points, four ahead of second-place Argentina. It appears (...)
Brazil's star players have debated whether or not they should play in the Copa America on home soil but don't plan to make any public statements on the matter until after their World Cup qualifying games against Ecuador and Paraguay.
The Copa (...)
South American soccer body CONMEBOL announced Wednesday that the historic Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro will host the final of Copa America on July 10. It also picked Brazil against Venezuela as the opener on June 13 at Brasilia's Mane (...)
The Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) has announced the appointment of former Ambassador Osmar Chohfi as its new President.
Chohfi, whose selection was formally confirmed by the ABCC Board recently, will replace Rubens Hannun, who led the (...)
On 26 March 1991, thirty years ago today, the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay signed in Asunción, Paraguay, the treaty to establish the Southern Common Market (known as MERCOSUR in its Spanish acronym and MERCOSUL in its (...)
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Mon 15, 7-8pm (GMT+2): Join this session of the Gerhart Center Webinar Series (GCWS) titled "Social Justice and Health Equity" featuring Professor Sir Michael G. Marmot, director of the Institute of Health Equity, UCL (...)
World soccer's governing body FIFA has relaxed its normal rules about player-release for internationals because of the pandemic and worries about the impact of long-distance travel to areas with high case-rates. Clubs are expected to keep their (...)
Australia and Qatar, the two non-South American sides due to take part in this year's Copa America, have pulled out of the tournament, the secretary general of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said on Tuesday.
The two teams were (...)
Pyramids FC announced on Monday that they have signed Uruguayan striker Diego Rolan from the Spanish team Deportivo de La Coruña on loan without disclosing the financial details.
The 27-year-old striker started his football career in the Defensor (...)
Liverpool attempted to address its injury crisis in central defense by signing an unheralded player from England's second division on Monday.
It is a move Ben Davies, a 25-year-old left-sided center half who plays for Preston in the Championship, (...)
A coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was found to be safe and triggered immune responses in early and mid-stage trials, researchers said on Tuesday.
A late-stage trial of the ZF2001 vaccine, which CAS is (...)
More than 70.6 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,600,791 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases (...)
لقاء من العيار الثقيل في مشاهدة مباراة كولومبيا والإكوادور بث مباشر اليوم والتي ستكون في رابع جولات تصفيات قارة أمريكا الجنوبية المؤهلة لكأس العالم 2022 بقطر حيث تبدأ على ملعب أولمبيكو أتاهوليا الخاص بالمنتخب ecuador حيث من المقرر لها أن تكون في (...)
Brazil's captain put their impressive 5-0 win over Bolivia down to the single-minded way the five-times world champions addressed their opening World Cup qualifier in Sao Paulo on Friday.
“Without a doubt, we have to highlight the fact that we took (...)
FIFA decided on Thursday that clubs can stop their players from participating in international matches until the end of the year depending on COVID-19 conditions in the countries to which they are traveling.
The announcement comes one week before (...)
Russia's sovereign wealth fund and its partner Chemrar will supply the COVID-19 drug Avifavir to 17 additional countries, the fund said in a statement on Thursday.
Avifavir gained approval from the Russian health ministry in May and is based on (...)
Lionel Messi can play in Argentina's opening World Cup qualifier next month because the statute of limitations has run out on the ban he was given during last year's Copa America, the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) said on (...)
تناقلت وسائل الإعلام ومواقع التواصل الإجتماعى مقطع فيديو يرصد لحظة تعرض فتاة تلميذة من الأكوادور للسرقة على الهواء مباشرة أثناء تلقيها درس على تطبيق " زوم " وسط حضور من المعلم والتلاميذ يشاهدون مايحدث ولكنهم ليس لديهم القدرة على مساعدة زمليتهم .
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Authorities in China have found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of imported frozen seafood that arrived from the port city of Dalian, which recently battled a surge of cases, a local government said on Tuesday.
The virus was found on the (...)
Facebook on Wednesday removed 50 personal and professional pages connected to U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone, who is due to report to prison next week.
The social media platform said Stone and his associates, including a (...)
