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Defending champions Canada take on Germany on Saturday in a bid to reach the semi-finals of the Olympic women’s football tournament after they made the knockouts despite a points deduction over a spying scandal. Four-time gold medallists the United States and World Cup holders Spain are also in action in the last eight. Canada’s hopes of repeating their run to ...

FIFA said on Thursday it had invited FIFPRO Europe and the European Leagues body for talks following a dispute over the sport’s calendar. On July 23, the global players’ union FIFPRO and European Leagues, which brings together more than one thousand clubs from 33 countries, filed a complaint to the European Commission accusing FIFA of abusing its position, AFP reports. ...

Mo Salah and Fabio Carvalho scored first-half goals to give Liverpool a 2-1 victory over Arsenal in a pre-season friendly on Wednesday while Chelsea cruised to a 3-0 victory against Club America. Kai Havertz scored Arsenal’s goal in front of a crowd of 69,879 at the home stadium of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles. Egyptian Salah opened the scoring for Liverpool ...

There is no love lost between France and Argentina on the football field these days and their quarter-final meeting in Bordeaux on Friday will add spice to the men’s Olympic tournament. The last-eight clash between the rivals is in many ways exactly what was needed for a competition mainly reserved for players aged under 23, lacking in star names and ...

Argentine soccer player Angel Di Maria said Tuesday that safety concerns mean he will not finish his career in his native Rosario, after a bullet-pierced pig’s head was thrown at a family business. The 36-year-old, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 2022, had said he wanted to return to his boyhood club in the nation’s third-largest city, which ...

Bangladesh will host 2027 Men’s Asia Cup in an ODI format, according to the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in its Invitation for Expression of Interest (IEOI). Meanwhile, India were named as hosts for the 2025 edition which will be a 20-over tournament, the ACC stated in its IEOI statement on Tuesday. Since its introduction as a T20 event in 2016, ...

Bangladesh A team captain Mahmudul Hasan Joy was elated to draw the two-match four-day series against Pakistan A, saying that they took the second game as ‘do or die’ match as they needed a victory for psychological boost ahead of the national team’s tour to Pakistan. Pakistan Shaheens, played as Pakistan A won the first game by 148 runs. However ...

Simone Biles made a blockbuster return to Olympic competition on Sunday, powering through left calf pain to get her multiple-medal bid off to a rousing start. The American, aiming to add to the four gold medals she won in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, tweaked her left calf warming up for her second apparatus, the floor exercise. It didn’t stop ...

Bangladesh women’s team’s senior player Jahanara Alam accepted their failure in the Asia Cup, stating that the mistakes in batting sank them heavily. The Tigresses mission Asia Cup ended in semifinal after being thrashed at the hands of India by 10 wickets, reports BSS. They also lost to Sri Lanka in the group phase before making the last-four stage by ...

Defending champion Inter Miami, playing without injured star Lionel Messi, blanked Mexico’s Puebla 2-0 at home on Saturday to begin defending their Leagues Cup crown. Paraguay’s Matias Rojas opened the scoring in the ninth minute and Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez added an insurance goal in the 72nd minute to deliver Inter Miami’s triumph. Miami was without Argentine striker Messi, who ...