England kept Great Britain’s Olympic women’s soccer bid alive with a stirring comeback from two goals down to beat the Netherlands 3-2 in the UEFA Women’s Nations League on Friday. The Lionesses were in danger of a third defeat in Group A1 after Lineth Beerensteyn notched a first-half brace for the Dutch at Wembley. That […]
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Watch: The Aubameyang golazo amid his hat trick for Marseille
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a bicycle kick and two penalties (including the stoppage-time winner) in a 4-3 win over Ajax.
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Pots: Euro 2024 draw
Pot 1: Germany (host), Portugal, France, Spain, Belgium, England. Pot 2: Hungary, Turkey, Romania, Denmark, Albania, Austria. Pot 3: Netherlands, Scotland, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic. Pot 4: Italy, Serbia, Switzerland, three winners from Paths A, B and C. —————————— Playoff Path A: Wales, Finland, Poland, Estonia. Playoff Path B: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ukraine, Israel, […]
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Ricardo Pepi's winner ranks among the biggest goals an American has scored in Europe
Ricardo Pepi scored one of the most dramatic goals an American has ever scored in the UEFA Champions League when his stoppage-time header gave PSV a 3-2 win at Sevilla. Other Americans have scored a match winner (DaMarcus Beasley for PSV against Rosenborg in 2004, Weston McKennie for Schalke 04 against Lokomotiv Moscow in 2018 […]
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Bulgarian soccer hits rock bottom
Bulgaria’s failure to qualify for Euro 2024, extending the 1994 World Cup semifinalists’ absence from major finals to two decades, sparked violent clashes that led to the resignation of Borislav Mihaylov, the president of the Bulgarian soccer federation (BFU), on Monday. “I have tendered my resignation in a spirit of appeasement,” said the 60-year-old Mihaylov, […]
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Derby d'Italia: Inter and Juve in top spot tussle
Inter Milan and Juventus face off on Sunday in a clash between Serie A’s two title favorites and historic rivals, as Walter Mazzarri begins his second reign at troubled Napoli. Two points ahead of Juve after 12 matches, leader Inter has had a dream season so far as it looks comfortably Italy’s best team and […]
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Euro 2024 qualifying verdict
Croatia clinched the final automatic qualifying spot for Euro 2024 on Tuesday as Wales was forced to settle for a play-off place. Semifinalist at the World Cup 12 months ago, Croatia knew it would qualify for next year’s European Championship in Germany with a win against Armenia in Zagreb, but any slip-up would have allowed […]
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Tuesday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. Latest Brazil-Argentina encounter presents a chance to change history By Tim Vickery (ESPN)2. Lionel Messi’s World Cup jerseys could set record for sale price of game-worn memorabilia By Camille Fine (USA Today)3. Why soccer fears tramadol: ‘It’s an evil drug – it nearly killed me’ By Daniel Taylor (The Athletic)
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'Next Goal Wins,' the Hollywood treatment, isn't real, and that's OK
Among the most inspiring of soccer tales concerns American Samoa’s rise, so to speak, a dozen years ago when its national team, guided by Thomas Rongen, put behind it that record 31-goal travesty a decade earlier against Australia — and that dead-last position in FIFA’s rankings — by beating Tonga in a World Cup qualifier, […]
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Concacaf Nations League: Honduras stuns Mexico
• Honduras got goals from Anthony Lozano and Bryan Rochez and earned a fully deserved 2-0 win over Mexico in the first leg of their Concacaf Nations League quarterfinal series, which also serves as qualiying for the 2024 Copa America. Mexico goalkeeper and captain Guillermo Ochoa was injured and forced to leave the game in […]