Soccer

Taxi Fountas and D.C. United mutually agreed to terminate the ahead’s contract instantly, the MLS membership introduced Thursday, after the league decided there have been what it referred to as “credible allegations” he used prohibited and discriminatory language towards one other participant. ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Japan has hardly been examined on this Women’s World Cup and rolled with an ideal 4-0 file into the quarterfinals, the place a win over Sweden would present the Nadeshiko are very a lot a real contender. ...

LONDON (AP) — Mexico midfielder Edson Álvarez joined West Ham from Ajax on Thursday because the alternative for the departed Declan Rice. Ajax state...

SYDNEY (AP) — While Lauren James awaits a choice on whether or not she's going to be capable to play once more on the Women’s World Cup, her England teammates are specializing in their upcoming quarterfinal in opposition to Colombia. ...

MLS followers should wait somewhat longer for Lionel Messi’s first regular-season match with Inter Miami CF. Miami’s Aug. 20 match in opposition to ...

BRISBANE, Australia — Spoiler alert. Hervé Renard’s French lineup is aware of what the environment and the stress is like taking part in a Women’s World Cup quarterfinal on house soil, and is projecting that onto Australia’s Matildas. ...

MADRID — From Alfredo Di Stéfano to Hugo Sánchez to Raúl González. From Ronaldo to Cristiano Ronaldo to Karim Benzema. It appears there has all the ...

ATHENS, Greece — Nearly 100 arrested Croatian soccer followers appeared in an Athens courtroom Wednesday to face severe felony costs that embody homicide and membership of a felony group, over their alleged involvement in lethal fan violence. The handcuffed youths – many with their shirts pulled over their heads to cover their identification – appeared earlier than an investigative Justice of the Peace a day after a 29-year-old Greek fan was stabbed to dying exterior AEK Athens’ stadium, prompting the cancellation...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Da’vian Kimbrough, a 13-year-old ahead, signed a contract with the Sacramento Republic of the second-tier League Championship of the United Soccer League, which says he's the youngest athlete in American skilled workforce sports. ...

PARIS — Luis Enrique is the eighth coach to take cost of Paris Saint-Germain in 12 years of Qatari possession of the French membership, a hire-and-fire strategy which has up to now didn't ship the last word purpose of profitable the Champions League. ...