France entered Matchday 7 of its 10-game World Cup 2018 qualifying with some concerns. A shock loss to Sweden in June had dropped the Bleus into second place in Group A, and a slip-upagainst the Netherlands at home on Thursday would have dropped them into third place. In Concacaf, third place is worth a ticket […]
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Re-Sale: Naess leaves Columbus after 13 months
After just 13 months in MLS, defender Nico Naess was transferred from Columbus Crew SC to Dutch club Heerenveen. The Crew backline has changed a lot since he arrived but Crew coach GreggBerhalter said the intention was to always consider re-selling the young Norwegian. Crew situation. Naess, 24, arrived in July 2016 and was slotted […]
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Ajax behind the eight-ball
Ajax, last season’s Europa League runner-up to Manchester City, faces a challenge to reach the Europa League group stage after a 1-0 home loss Norwegian side Rosenborg. Ajax was knocked out of theChampions League qualifiers by Nice and lost its Eredivisie season-opener to Heracles Almelo. Since it’s run the Europa League final, Coach Peter Bosz […]
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Martens heads UEFA Women's Player of the Year short list
Barcelona winger Lieke Martens, who led the Netherlands to the Euro 2017 title, was shortlisted for the UEFA’s Women’s Player of the Year, along with Wolfsburg’s Danish striker PernilleHarder and Lyon’s German midfielder Dzsenifer Marozsan. Players 4-10: 4: Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands, Bayern Munichand Arsenal) 5: Eugenie Le Sommer (France, Lyon) 6: Wendie Renard (France, Lyon) […]
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Martins Indi makes permanent move to Stoke
Dutch defender Bruno Martins Indi, who played on loan to Stoke City last season, signed with the Potters from Porto for $9 million. He’s another defender who will be competition for AmericanGeoff Cameron. Stoke also signed French defender Kurt Zouma on loan from Chelsea.
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Davy Propper joins Brighton from PSV Eindhoven in record transfer
By most standards, it’s a ridiculously modest fee, but promoted EPL club Brighton & Hove Albion broke its transfer record to sign Dutch midfielder Davy Propper from PSV Eindhoven for areported fee of 6 million pounds ($7.8 million).
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Dutch women win over a nation
For years, European women’s soccer was dominated by Germany, winner of six straight European women’s championships and seven of the last eight entering Euro 2017. In the early years, Scandinavianteams and Italy were contenders. More recently, France and England have built up their women’s national team programs. The 2017 championship was won by the host […]
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What They're Saying: Sarina Wiegman
“It was a great match between two teams that really wanted to play and really wanted to attack. Now we’re going to party really hard.” — Dutch head coach SarinaWiegman after her team won the Women’s Euro 2017 championship with a 4-2 win over Denmark. Many of her players were seen clutching bottles of champagne […]