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England forward Beth Mead is set to work with Fifa to share knowledge on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, alongside Beth Mead Arsenal team-mate Vivianne Miedema.Mead and Miedema suffered ACL injuries at the end of 2022 which forced them to miss last year’s Women’s World Cup.Prior to her injury, Mead was Ballon d’Or runner-up having…
Bayer Leverkusen boss Xabi Alonso said he had “nothing new to say” amid speculation linking him with his former clubs Bayern Munich and Liverpool. Liverpool are searching for a manager after Jurgen Klopp announced he will leave them at the end of the season. Bayern and Xabi Alonso Thomas Tuchel have also decided to part ways when the current…
MLS Lionel Messi is 36 years old and by now, you’d think, he has done everything there is to do on a soccer pitch. Hundreds of stupefying goals. Impossibly mazy runs. Alien assists. But Messi, an unrivaled sporting magician, has never stopped inventing magic tricks. And on Wednesday night, in his 2024 MLS opener, he pulled…
Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos has come out of international football retirement for Euro 2024 hosts Germany. Kroos, 34, was part of the Germany team who won the World Cup in 2014. and has won 106 caps for Die Mannschaft. He retired in July 2021 but has now reversed the decision after talks with Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann. “I’ll…
Argentina forward Messi played in Robert Taylor for the first, with the midfielder’s first-half shot squeezing under visiting keeper Zac MacMath. Messi, 36, also had a hand in Miami’s late second goal scored by Diego Gomez. He linked up well with former Barcelona team-mate Luis Suarez, who registered an assist on his MLS debut. “Messi…
“All petulant in pink like some thuggish flamingo,” read the pages of South China Morning Post. There was no hiding it: China was fuming at Lionel Messi. Nearly 40,000 had thronged to the Hong Kong Stadium to watch him play, how could he ditch them at the last second? Speculation ran amok. ‘Was it a…
New Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says his “preference” is to build a new stadium for the club that can also “serve the north of England”.United have played at the 74,310-capacity Old Trafford since 1910, but Ratcliffe acknowledged it had become “tired and in need of refurbishment”. A new stadium could be built next…
Former Germany defender Andreas Brehme, who scored the winning goal in the 1990 World Cup final, has died aged 63. Andreas Brehme converted a late penalty in the final of the 1990 tournament to secure victory against Argentina in Rome. He earned 86 caps, including eight goals, for his country and won league titles while…