France beat the Netherlands, 1-0, in Amsterdam in World Cup qualifying thanks to this 30-yard blast by Paul Pogba that was simply too fierce for goalkeeper MaartenStekelenburg.
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Video Pick: A blooper by Manuel Neuer
Manuel Neuer posted a shutout in Germany’s 3-0 win over the Czech Republic in World Cup qualifier, but his method of retrieving the ball on a nullified play backfired.
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More fines to Mexico for anti-gay chant — but is that enough?
By Mike Woitalla @MikeWoitalla This week, FIFA took action against Mexico, as well as Argentina, Brazil,Chile, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, for “homophobic chants by supporters.” The chant in question is the roar of “Eeeh … puto!” when a goalkeeper takesa goal kick, and in the USA we’re most familiar with its use […]
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Video Pick: Best keeper stunt of the week
In Turkey, Galatasaray’s Argentine-Uruguayan Fernando Muslera took the sweeper-keeper concept to new heights when he found himself in midfield, where he successfully faked outAntalyaspor’s Samuel Eto’o in Galataray’s 3-1 win.
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Video Pick: Celtic's 13-year-old wunderkind
This week, a 13-year-old debuted for Celtic’s U-20 team. Here’s a montage of Karamoko Dembele showing why the Scottish club has put him on the fast track.
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Video Pick: Kung-fu strike tops Bundesliga golazos
FC Cologne’s French striker Anthony Modeste reached with his foot a ball high enough to head to beat Manuel Neuer for the Bundesliga’s Goal of the Week. The Top 5nominees included a diving header by Bayern Munich’s 21-year-old Joshua Kimmich.
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U-17 WWC: USA falls to Ghana
After opening with a 6-1 win over Paraguay, the USA fell, 2-1, to Ghana in its second group game of the U-17 Women’s World Cup in Jordan. Coach B.J. Snow’s team took a fifthminute lead when Frankie Tagliaferri met a pass from Civana Kuhlmann, cruised through the center of the Ghana defense, and stroked home […]
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Copa Libertadores expands
The Copa Libertadores, Latin America’s most prestigious club competition, will expand from 38 to 44 teams and from 27 to 42 weeks in 2017. Brazil will get two more spots (for a total ofseven), Argentina, Chile and Colombia get one extra spot each, and the winner of the Copa Sudamericana gains direct entry into the region’s […]
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A 48-team World Cup?
FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who promised expanding the World Cup from 32 to 40 teams, now proposes a 48-team tournament in which 32 teams play a single knockout game in the hostcountry and the 16 winners join 16 seeded teams in a 32-team group stage. “It means we continue with a normal World Cup for […]
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Big Sam's Big Fall
By Paul Gardner LONDON — Poor Sam Allardyce. Well, maybe. Depends how you see things. Not long ago, Allardyce was one of the few English coaches in the EnglishPremier League … he had a lowly job with a lowly team — Sunderland, which he just managed to save from relegation last season. But that background […]