Soccer

9:19 AM ET Brendan Rodgers led Leicester City to win the FA Cup in 2021. Photo by Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images Brendan Rodgers has left his role as Leicester City manager by mutual agreement with the club battling to survive relegation from the Premier League, the club announced on Sunday. Rodgers, 50, watched

Mar 28, 2023 Gabriel Jesus ended the longest goal drought of his professional club career to keep Arsenal clear at the top of the Premier League. Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images LONDON — Arsenal restored their eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League after a comfortable 4-1 win over Leeds United at Emirates

4:23 PM ET New Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel was in no mood for big celebrations after his team’s 4-2 victory over Bundesliga title rivals and former team Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, saying there was room for improvement. Tuchel returned to the Bundesliga to take over at Bayern after they made the shock decision to

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4:00 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Welcome to the ESPN FC hotlist, which each month highlights some of the most in-form talent aged 23 or under across Europe. Generally, young but established stars like Manchester City‘s Erling Haaland, Borussia Dortmund‘s Jude Bellingham or Barcelona‘s Gavi aren’t included — otherwise they’d be on the list every month

8:17 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona have acknowledged they are in contact with Lionel Messi about bringing him back to the club when his contract with Paris Saint-Germain expires in June. Vice president Rafa Yuste confirmed Friday the club are looking into the possibility of re-signing Messi, who left for PSG in 2021,

5:00 AM ET Ian DarkeESPN.com writer Close Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is ESPN lead soccer voice in the United States. He has covered the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League since 1982, and has one of the world’s most recognizable soccer voices.

11:13 AM ET Associated Press Owners and directors of English Premier League clubs can be disqualified for human rights abuses, the organisation said Thursday. The league announced changes to its owners’ and directors’ test (OADT), which include new rules that will give it power to remove leading officials who contravene them. As well as human

3:16 PM ET Bayern Munich‘s reign in the Bundesliga is threatened. They just panic-fired their manager with two months left in the season. They’re facing more uncertainty than they have in quite a while. They remain as Bayern as ever, though: still prolific, still the betting favorite (and the No. 2 favorite in the Champions

4:00 AM ET Only two outcomes await Arsenal from their position atop the Premier League table: agony or ecstasy. The club’s supporters lurch helplessly between the two extremes, contemplating the glory of a first title since 2003-04’s “Invincibles” and the ignominy of losing the eight-point lead they will hold on April 1. This roller coaster

12:12 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Maguire is stuck in a tough position: indispensable for England, but a bench player for Man United. What should he do from here? Michael Regan – The FA/The FA via Getty Images After playing every minute of England‘s two Euro qualifiers during the international break, Harry Maguire will face a familiar

7:00 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen The world’s best male players are getting younger, but is it finally time to crown successors to the legendary Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo? For the fifth straight year (read 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 here), ESPN brings you our list of the game’s next top young stars aged 21

7:57 PM ET Adriana Garcia Lionel Messi became just the third male player to score 100 international goals as he hit his century in the first half of Argentina‘s friendly with Curacao on Tuesday. The Paris Saint-Germain forward picked up the ball in the middle of the area, cut to his right hit a low

4:13 PM ET In its first competitive matches since the World Cup, the United States men’s national team beat Grenada (7-1) and El Salvador (1-0) to advance to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Nations League in June in Las Vegas. Given the sizable talent discrepancy in both matches, two wins was the overwhelming expectation, but

11:30 AM ET Julie Ertz last featured for the United States in 2021. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images The returns of Julie Ertz and NWSL MVP Sophia Smith highlight the United States women’s 26-player roster for a pair of upcoming friendlies against Ireland. Ertz last played for the U.S. at the 2021 Olympics, and gave

11:56 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. – United States men’s national team striker Ricardo Pepi says his career over the last eight months has been “a rollercoaster ride” but after a week in which he scored three goals for the national team, including the game-winner in a 1-0 win over El Salvador, he’s made “big statement”

9:52 PM ET ORLANDO — The United States men’s national team progressed to the CONCACAF Nations League finals, though it made hard work of defeating El Salvador 1-0. Ricardo Pepi scored the all-important goal just moments after coming on as a second half substitute, and with the U.S. proving resolute in defense, that was enough

2:45 PM ET The Marshall Islands have no soccer league and a population of roughly 60,000 people spread across five islands and 30 atolls. But they’re hard at work to bring the sport, and the global audience, home. Courtesy of Slovem Jacob/Marshall Islands Soccer Federation The motivation behind the mission to bring football to the Marshall