Soccer

BRUSSELS — For Belgium coach Domenico Tedesco, calling up Romelu Lukaku for a few European Championship qualifiers was a no brainer. Even although t...

BRIGHTON, England — Ansu Fati, as soon as billed as Lionel Messi’s successor at Barcelona, will play on mortgage at Brighton this season. The 20-yea...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman referred to as up three new gamers forward of European Championship qualifiers towards Greece and Ireland. ...

MONACO — Former European champions Ajax and Marseille had been drawn Friday to play Premier League membership Brighton and AEK Athens in one of many hardest Europa League teams. ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — First he backed his beleaguered boss. Then he condemned him. Now he's saying sorry for his half within the scandal that has tarnished Spanish soccer. ...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City accomplished the signing of midfielder Matheus Nunes on Friday after agreeing to pay Wolverhampton a reported switch payment of 53 million kilos ($67 million). ...

GENEVA — U.N.-backed human rights consultants specializing in racial discrimination urged Italy’s authorities to do extra to get rid of violence, hate speech, stigmatization and harassment towards Africans and other people of African descent, and expressed concern that no authorized circumstances have been delivered to punish followers and others for racist acts at sports occasions. ...

MILAN (AP) — Champions League finalist Inter Milan has acquired defender Benjamin Pavard from Bayern Munich. Pavard, a World Cup winner with France ...

MONACO — The governing physique of European soccer heads to its annual awards gala on Thursday in Monaco amid turmoil created by its vice chairman from Spain. ...

MADRID — When Patricia Otero watched the president of Spain’s soccer federation tarnish the best victory within the historical past of ladies’s sports in Spain by forcibly kissing a participant on the lips through the Women’s World Cup medal ceremony, she was saddened - however not stunned. ...