Soccer

Sep 7, 2024, 06:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Riccardo Calafiori’s injury does not look serious. Getty Arsenal defender Riccardo Calafiori was forced off with injury during Italy‘s 3-1 UEFA Nations League victory against France on Friday. Editor’s Picks 2 Related Calafiori, 22, who joined Arsenal from Bologna this summer, was hurt when Ousmane Dembélé caught

ESPN News Services Sep 6, 2024, 05:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Netherlands international forward Memphis Depay has finalized a free-agent deal to join Brazilian powerhouse Corinthians, sources told ESPN. Depay, 30, is set to join the Sao Paulo-based club on a two-year deal, sources said. He’s expected to arrive in Brazil next week and

Sep 6, 2024, 05:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The transfer deadline may have passed across Europe’s top five leagues but there is still business to be done this summer. And, with only four months until the January window opens, the rumour mill keeps on turning! Transfer Talk brings you all the latest, and you

Paul Watson Sep 6, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SERRAVALLE, San Marino — Waiting 20 years to win a football match is an unbearably long time for any team, even if you are officially the worst in the world. But for San Marino, those two decades of hurt made the joy of Thursday’s

Sep 5, 2024, 11:13 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Alex Morgan has announced she is retiring from soccer. Carmen Mandato/USSF/Getty Images for USSF United States women’s national team stalwart Alex Morgan has announced that she is to retire from soccer after this weekend in a video shared on social media. Morgan, 35, made 223 appearances for

Jeff Kassouf Sep 5, 2024, 02:48 PM ET There is no weight like the expectation of being the next star of the U.S. women’s national team. Alex Morgan shouldered that as a 20-year-old in 2009, when she joined her first senior training camp with the team. She hadn’t yet debuted for the U.S., and already

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterSep 5, 2024, 05:04 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions Norway‘s men’s team received a visit from the country’s anti-doping agency this week, but while

ESPN News Services Sep 4, 2024, 04:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were both left off the list of nominees for this year’s Ballon d’Or award, marking the first time neither star was nominated since 2003. Record eight-time winner Messi, and his longtime rival Ronaldo, who has five Ballon d’Ors

Open Extended Reactions Additional reporting by Gabriele Marcotti and Tor-Kristian Karlsen. Twenty-two minutes into Chelsea‘s new Premier League season, the fans at Stamford Bridge roused themselves into a chant after their team fell 1-0 down to Manchester City. “Conor Gallagher,” they sang. Not the team’s name. Not their new manager. Not even one of the

Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Sep 4, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Real Madrid defender Dani Carvajal has admitted that a move to MLS when he decides to leave the Spanish and European champions is “a possibility.” Right-back Carvajal, 32, had one of the best seasons of his career in 2023-24, helping Madrid win

Lizzy Becherano Sep 3, 2024, 05:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions United States defender Tim Ream said players have not been made aware of the impending appointment of Mauricio Pochettino as the team’s new head coach. “We know as much as everybody else,” Ream said, speaking at a news conference on Tuesday. “We were updated

The summer 2024 transfer window closed on Friday, and one thing is evident in the Premier League. Spending — as in net spending, which is the amount taken in when transferring players out, minus the amount shelled out to acquire new players — is down. Way down. Like, Mariana Trench down. According to Transfermarkt, Premier

Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Sep 3, 2024, 06:12 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Barcelona forward Raphinha has said working with a psychologist is essential for anyone navigating a career as a professional footballer and not let the sport “destroy you.” Raphinha, 27, has started the season in fine form, scoring a hat trick in Saturday’s

Lizzy Becherano Sep 2, 2024, 07:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Luis Suárez announced his retirement from the Uruguay national team in a news conference on Monday, saying he will step away from international duty after his team’s World Cup qualifier against Paraguay on Friday. The former Liverpool and Barcelona star, who is now playing

Gabriele Marcotti, Senior Writer, ESPN FCSep 2, 2024, 10:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The final weekend of European club action before the international break didn’t disappoint, with talking points galore across the top leagues. In the Premier League, Liverpool humbled Man United at Old Trafford in front of United’s new midfielder. In LaLiga, Barcelona

Open Extended Reactions Manuel Ugarte will never forget his first day at Old Trafford. It began with Manchester United‘s new £50 million midfielder narrowly avoiding being soaked by sprinklers on the pitch as he was introduced to the crowd before the game with Liverpool and ended with manager Erik ten Hag warning it will take

Sep 1, 2024, 06:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Manchester United have grown accustomed to disappointment, but so lopsided was their 3-0 defeat to Liverpool at Old Trafford on Sunday that the question must now be asked whether their fiercest rivals are, in fact, the closest competition to that seemingly unbeatable outfit across town: Manchester

Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentSep 1, 2024, 03:36 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Open Extended Reactions AC Milan forward Christian Pulisic, AS Monaco forward Folarin Balogun and Borussia Dortmund midfielder Giovanni Reyna headline the 24-player United States roster that will play a pair of upcoming