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Chelsea eased into the Women’s Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday with a 3-0 win over Celtic, while Lyon and Real Madrid also booked their places in the knockout phase. England international Lucy Bronze struck with a volley in the second minute at Stamford Bridge and Dutch midfielder Wieke Kaptein’s header doubled Chelsea’s lead midway through the first half, AFP reports. ...

Ten-man Ecuador upset Colombia with a 1-0 victory in Barranquilla on Tuesday as they continued their impressive South American World Cup qualifying campaign. The gritty victory from Sebastian Beccacece’s young side moved Ecuador, temporarily at least, into third place in the 10-team qualifying group. Veteran striker Enner Valencia stunned the home crowd with a seventh-minute opener and it was an ...

Lautaro Martínez’s goal gave Argentina a 1-0 win over Peru on Tuesday in a South American World Cup qualifying match in Buenos Aires. The victory nearly secures Lionel Messi’s team a spot in the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Messi crossed the ball in the penalty area in the 55th minute to give Martínez one ...

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 15-member squad for the home series against Ireland. Pacer Jahanara Alam and Sharmin Akter were recalled to the team for ODI format after a year hiatus. Jahanara last played an ODI match in May, 2023 while Sharmin’s last game in this format was in July last year, BSS reports. The squad featured few ...

Zakaria Pintoo, captain of the Shadhin Bangla football team, passed away due to complications from heart disease at a city hospital on Monday morning. He was 81. The National Sports Award winner Pintoo had been admitted to the Ibn Sina hospital in the capital on Sunday. He breathed his last at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital at around ...

Germany dismantled visitors Bosnia and Herzegovina 7-0 on Saturday with a statement win and two goals apiece from Florian Wirtz and Tim Kleindienst to secure top spot in their Nations League group A3 with a game to spare. The Germans, who had already qualified for next year’s quarter-finals of the competition, took the lead with in-form Jamal Musiala’s looping header ...

Bangladesh’s national football team secured a dramatic 2-1 victory over the Maldives in their final match of the year, at Bashundhara Kings Arena on Saturday. Al thanks to a stoppage-time goal by substitute Papun Singh, a midfielder for Abahani Limited, was brought on in the second half as a substitute for Sohel Rana. Just when it seemed like the match ...

The Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) have announced a reward of Tk 1 crore for the Bangladesh women’s football team, who recently won the SAFF Championship in Nepal. The decision was taken on Saturday in the BOA Executive Committee meeting, chaired by Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman. BOA Executive Committee member and Bangladesh Handball Federation (BHF) General Secretary ...

Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Vinicius Júnior had frustrating nights in South American World Cup qualifying. While Messi could not help his team avoid a 2-1 defeat at Paraguay, Vinicius Junior missed a second-half penalty as Brazil was held to a 1-1 draw at Venezuela on Thursday. Argentina will remain on the top of the 10-team round robin competition with ...

Chris Wood’s prolific goal-scoring for Nottingham Forest is unprecedented for New Zealand football and may never be repeated, the country’s coach said Thursday. The centre-forward is in the form of his life with eight goals in 11 matches to play a major part in Forest’s strong start to the season in the English Premier League, where they sit fifth. New ...