Soccer

Police in Virginia have arrested a person after a youth soccer coach was overwhelmed so badly with a steel water bottle that his face fractured. Pri...

PARIS — Having helped France win trophies as a prolific ahead, Thierry Henry desires to steer Les Bleus to a long-awaited Olympic gold medal in his new function as coach. ...

MADRID — Spain’s Aug. 20 victory on the Women’s World Cup was a momentous event for the soccer-crazed nation, however the pleasure on and off the sphere was quickly sullied by the chief of the nation’s soccer federation when he planted an undesirable kiss on the lips of a star participant through the medal ceremony. ...

GENEVA — Leading officers throughout the Spanish Football Federation requested suspended president Luis Rubiales to resign on Monday after kissing a participant on the lips on the Women’s World Cup last. ...

MADRID (AP) — The mom of the Spanish soccer federation president has began a starvation strike in a church in southern Spain in protection of her son, who's beneath hearth for kissing a participant through the latest Women’s World Cup awards ceremony. ...

BARCELONA, Spain — One week after the president of the Spanish soccer federation kissed a participant through the Women’s World Cup awards ceremony, his repute is in tatters and he’s out of his job. ...

SHEFFIELD, England — Rodri got here up with one other huge objective for Manchester City, scoring within the 88th minute to safe the champions a 2-1 win at Sheffield United on Sunday and a 3rd straight victory to open its Premier League title protection. ...

BURNLEY, England — Matty Cash’s first targets for Aston Villa in additional than a yr impressed the staff to a 3-1 victory over Burnley within the Premier League on Sunday. ...

BERLIN — Omar Marmoush scored in damage time to rescue a 1-1 draw for 10-man Eintracht Frankfurt at native rival Mainz within the Bundesliga on Sunday. ...

HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Lionel Messi didn't communicate with reporters after his Major League Soccer debut, a violation of the league’s media guidelines. ...