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Count Italian Giovanni Trapattoni as one person who is not impressed with Bayern Munich under Pep Guardiola. Trapattoni, who coached Bayern for two stints in the 1990s, says Bayern istoo elaborate in how it plays and he feels it’s a problem across the world. “For me there’s too much possession. Tick, tack, tick, tack. Tuck, […]

Real Madrid's defensive debate: Danilo or Dani Carvajal at right back

Real Madrid dug itself a 2-0 hole in the first leg of its UEFA Champions League series against German outsider Wolfsburg. A two-goal deficit should be enough for Madrid, which has scored 33 goals ineight home games under Zinedine Zidane, but it must shut out Wolfsburg or else hit that average of four goals a […]

Europa League: Sevilla, Shakhtar and Villarreal all 2-1 winners

Defending champion Sevilla beat Spanish rival Athletic Bilbao, 2-1, on the road thanks to Vicente Iborra‘s late goal, in the first leg of their Europa League quarterfinals series. ShakhtarDonetsk and Villarreal also recorded 2-1 wins over Braga and Sparta Prague, respectively, while Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund tied, 1-1.

Baines blows lid on Everton dissent

Everton’s 1-0 loss at at Manchester United was its third straight league defeat, underscoring the Liverpool club’s current problems that will need to be fixed before its FA Cup semifinal at Wembley onApril 23. The root of the problem? “There’s no chemistry between the players right now,” says defender Leighton Baines.

Xavi would like to coach Barcelona

Former Barcelona great Xavi admits he dreams of one day coaching at the Nou Camp, following in the footsteps of former midfielders Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique by going intomanagement. “I have no doubts,” he said. “I want to stay in football, being close to the pitch. I would hate being stuck in an office. […]

Hillsborough jury begins deliberations after 276-day trial

After 276 days, making it the longest case ever heard by a jury in British legal history, a jury of seven women and three men were asked to begin deliberations in the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. Theyhave been given 14 questions to answer about how the 96 died at the FA Cup semifinal between Liverpool and […]

Zidane: 'We won't go crazy now'

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said it was not time for his team to panic following a shock 2-0 loss at VfL Wolfsburg in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal series onWednesday. “It is always disappointing to lose a Champions League game, especially the way we lost it,” he told reporters. “But […]

Police raid UEFA headquarters after Infantino revelations in Panama Papers

Just what new FIFA president Gianni Infantino needed. A day after revelations that as UEFA’s lawyer a decade ago he signed off on a television deal between UEFA and an Argentinemarketing agency whose bosses, Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, were indicted by U.S. authorities last May, Swiss police raided UEFA offices as part of “ongoing criminal […]