AS Roma confirmed on Monday that Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah has been ruled out for four to six weeks after suffering an ankle ligament injury in Sunday’s 2-0 win at home to hated rivalLazio. After the game, coach Rudi Garcia was furious that Lazio’s Senad Lulic was not sent off for the challenge that resulted […]
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Barca's Fate Uncertain Amid Catalan Independence Vote
The future FC Barcelona — and indeed, Spain’s La Liga — hangs in the balance after Catalonia’s regional parliament on Monday voted in favor of beginning the process of formallybreaking away from Spain. According to the legislation, drafted in Catalan andbacked by the region’s two pro-separatist movements, Together for Yes and the Popular Unity Candidacy […]
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Video Pick: From Leo Messi to Carli Lloyd
The nominees for FIFA’s 2015 Puskas Goal of the Year Award are these terrific golazos from Lionel Messi, Alessandro Floenzi, Philippe Mexes, Marcel Ndjeng, Esteban Ramirez, Carlos Tevez, DavidBall, Carli Lloyd, Gonzalo Castro and Wendall Lira.
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Americans Abroad: Bobby Wood scores and assists
Nine of the 10 foreign-based players Coach Jurgen Klinsmann called in for this month’s World Cup qualifiers saw action for their clubs last weekend. Forward BobbyWoodscored and assisted for German second division Union Berlin. Wood scored Union Berlin’s first goal and assisted on its second in a 3-3 tie with FC Nuremberg. Wood now has […]
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Video Pick: Top-shelf goal from lower-division FA Cup clash
Salford City, an English non-league team of part-timers, got a piece of the limelight when it beat fourth division Notts County, 2-0, in the FA Cup and Richie Allen, who incorporatesthe Cruyff move to shed three swarming defenders, scored this tremendous goal.
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Ronaldo's Towering Panegyric to Narcissism
Cristiano Ronaldo has been talking an awful lot recently. Of course, that’s probably because the new movie about his life— simply and aptly titled Ronaldo — debuts intheaters on Monday. Now, Off The Post has not yet seen the latest project from the Real Madrid superstar, but you can hazard a guess that the film will […]
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Video Pick: Up close and personal with Cristiano Ronaldo
The filmmakers of acclaimed documentaries on Brazilian F1 legend Ayrton Senna and musician Amy Winehouse turned their attention to Cristiano Ronaldo.”Ronaldo” takes in the year in which he helped Real Madrid to its 10th European Cup and delves into Ronaldo’s family life. Here’s the trailer:
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Video Pick: Falcao the Futsal King scores a beauty
Falcao, the undisputed king of futsal, added to his long list of golazos with a no-look, back-heel half-volley in Brazil’s 11-2 win over Zambia.
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Video Pick: Neymar the Artist's every touch
Neymar scored twice and assisted on Luis Suarez‘s goal in Barcelona’s 3-0 Champions League win over Belarus club BATE Borisov. The folks at Fox Sports edited the gamedown to a montage of every Neymar touch — and it’s a delight.
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Video Pick: Chicharito strikes again
Since Mexican striker Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez scored his first goal against the USA in Mexico’s 3-2 Concacaf Cup win Oct. 10, he has for Bayer Leverkusenscored two Champions League goals and twice in the last two Bundesliga games, including this diving header.