Lazio have condemned the “despicable, shameful and anachronistic” racist abuse aimed at Lecce players Samuel Umtiti and Lameck Banda in Wednesday’s Serie A match. Lecce’s 2-1 comeback victory at Stadio Via del Mare was overshadowed by a section of Lazio fans in the away end aiming abuse towards Umtiti and Banda. The game was halted […]
Barcelona president Joan Laporta believes a revamped version of the European Super League could launch as soon as 2025, without any Premier League clubs taking part. Barca, along with Real Madrid and Juventus, remained committed to the Super League project in the aftermath of a failed launch in April 2021, though the other nine founding […]
Brighton’s World Cup winning midfielder Alexis Mac Allister expects to stay at the south coast side for the foreseeable future, stating he is in “no rush to leave” amid speculation linking him with a transfer elsewhere. Mac Allister started six of Argentina’s seven World Cup 2022 games on the way to lifting the trophy, becoming […]
Lionel Messi’s Argentina teammates want him to play at the next World Cup, says Alexis Mac Allister. Mac Allister starred alongside captain Messi as Argentina went all the way at Qatar 2022, defeating France on penalties in the final to become world champions for the third time. That tournament was set to be Messi’s last […]
Gianni Infantino is “dismayed” at being criticised for taking a selfie in view of Pele’s coffin at the Brazil legend’s wake on Monday. The only man to win the World Cup three times, Pele’s death was announced last Thursday at the age of 82 after a battle with cancer, having been moved to palliative care […]
Pele was football’s ultimate fox in the box, a player who dealt in quantity as much as quality, whose eye-popping career statistics alone marked him out as one of the greats. Footage is scarce of peak Pele, the player who emerged as a teenage sensation in the late 1950s and shone on the world stage […]
The 2022 World Cup is over. It obviously brought a lot of interesting moments with it, not least Lionel Messi finally crowning his incredible career with the biggest trophy the game has to offer, but also many things regarding the organization of the tournament itself. The talking points in that aspect mostly revolved around Qatar […]
Lionel Messi has apparently made a huge decision about his future and a u-turn on what he had planned. The 35-year-old has now won everything in the game, having lifted the World Cup at the weekend, capping the trophy off with the Golden Ball to boot. With talk of him slowing down and declining with […]
Putting in arguably the most famous display of his historic career in Sunday’s World Cup final, it is hard to argue that Lionel Messi has not cemented his place as the greatest player of all-time. Bagging a brace in Lusail and dragging Argentina to a first world crown since 1986, the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner […]
FIFA is investigating how celebrity chef Salt Bae gained “undue access” to Argentina’s on-pitch celebrations after the World Cup final. Salt Bae, the Turkish chef and social media presence whose real name is Nusret Gokce, posted several photos of himself with the World Cup trophy on social media after Sunday’s game. The chef, who owns […]