Soccer

BRUSSELS — Thibaut Courtois has left Belgium‘s training camp ahead of a qualifying match for next year’s European championships, amid stories in native media that the Real Madrid goalkeeper was pissed off to not be handed the captain’s armband within the earlier sport. ...

GLASGOW, Scotland — Brendan Rodgers has secured a return to Celtic, 4 1/2 years after leaving the Scottish champions in the course of a season to take cost of English membership Leicester. ...

MADRID — Real Madrid signed Spain striker Joselu on a one-year mortgage from Espanyol on Monday, boosting its assault after the departures of Karim Benzema, Marco Asensio, Eden Hazard and Mariano Díaz. ...

GENEVA — A mission utilizing synthetic intelligence to trace social media abuse aimed toward gamers on the 2022 World Cup recognized greater than 300 individuals whose particulars are being given to regulation enforcement, FIFA stated Sunday. ...

Andoni Iraola grew to become the newest coach from the Basque area to take cost of a Premier League staff after being employed by Bournemouth on Monday, hours after Gary O’Neil was fired regardless of maintaining the staff up final season with 4 matches to spare. ...

ROME — Unable to attain the specified outcomes with Cristiano Ronaldo at Saudi Arabian membership Al Nassr, Rudi Garcia is going through a fair larger problem as the brand new coach of Italian champion Napoli. ...

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican Soccer Federation introduced Monday it has changed Argentine Diego Cocca as coach of the nationwide crew, following a humiliating 3-0 loss to the United States. ...

LONDON — A soccer fan was banned from attending matches for 4 years Monday for carrying a shirt to this month’s FA Cup remaining that made an offensive reference to the Hillsborough Stadium catastrophe the place 97 Liverpool followers died. ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Argentina struggled to create probabilities with out Lionel Messi within the group because it labored to a 2-0 win over Indonesia in a pleasant on Monday, with each targets coming from defensive-minded gamers. ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Daniel de Sousa Brito completed with 4 saves for San Jose, David Bingham saved two photographs for Portland and the Earthquakes and Timbers performed to a scoreless draw on Saturday evening. ...