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The Tigresses have suffered a huge 10 wickets defeat against India in the ongoing Women’s T20 Asia Cup semi final at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium on Friday. After electing to bat first, Bangladesh womens’ managed to score only 80 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in their allotted 20 overs. The decision to bat first was quickly proved to ...

Reigning Ballon d’Or Aitana Bonmati scored one goal and helped create another as World Cup holders Spain beat Japan 2-1 in their first game of the women’s Olympic football tournament on Thursday, while record four-time gold medallists the United States beat Zambia 3-0. Spain are making their Olympic women’s football debut at the Paris Games but are leading contenders to ...

Berterame and Moroccan winger Oussama Idrissi also scored for the Mexican league’s elite squad in the triumph at Columbus, Ohio. MLS had won both prior All-Star meetings with Mexican league rivals, playing to a 1-1 draw and winning 3-2 on penalty kicks in 2021 and taking a 2-1 triumph in 2022, AFP reports. Berterame, a 25-year-old forward for Mexico’s CF ...

Mst Sagorika slammed a brilliant hat-trick as Bangladesh national women’s football team, came from behind, thrashed host Bhutan by 5-1 goals in the first of the two-match FIFA Tier-1 International Women’s Friendly Football series held at Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan on Wednesday. Bhutan took the lead early and they maintained their lead till the breather. Bangladesh however staged a ...

Bangladesh women’s cricket team thrashed Malaysia by 114 runs in the 11th match of ongoing Women’s T20 Asia Cup 2024 at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Dambulla on Wednesday. It was Bangladesh’s second highest total in this format, the highest being 255-2 against Maldives during the 2019 SA Games in Pokhara where both Joty and Fargana Hoque had struck unbeaten ...

FIFA said on Wednesday it was opening an investigation into racist chants by Argentina players after they won the Copa America. “FIFA is aware of a video circulating on social media and the incident is being looked into,” a spokesperson for world football’s governing body said, AFP reports. They added: “FIFA strongly condemns any form of discrimination by anyone including ...

Lionel Messi will miss Inter Miami’s next two Major League Soccer matches after injuring his right ankle in Argentina’s Copa America final triumph, Miami coach Gerardo Martino said Tuesday. The 37-year-old Argentine star went down in the 64th minute of a 1-0 victory over Colombia, hobbling off the field with cameras showing a huge swollen ankle, AFP reports. Messi is ...

Still celebrating Spain’s Euro 2024 triumph, Real Madrid fans will have even more to cheer Tuesday as French superstar Kylian Mbappe is officially presented to a packed-out Santiago Bernabeu stadium. With an expected attendance of 85,000, the stadium will be packed to the rafters for Mbappe’s first appearance before fans in what should beat the record set 15 years ago ...

Spain’s teenage phenom Lamine Yamal won the European Championship and the tournament’s best young player award just a day after he turned 17. Yamal earned it mostly while he was still 16, but he crowned his contribution to Spain’s success by setting up Nico Williams’ opening goal in a 2-1 win over England in the final on Sunday. “This is ...

Lautaro Martinez scored in the 111th minute as Argentina beat Colombia 1-0 to win the 2024 Copa America at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, USA. This is Argentina’s 16th title in South America’s premier international competition and they have thus overtaken Uruguay as the most successful team in its history. This is also Argentina’s second consecutive Copa America title, ...