Month: June 2020

5:12 PM ET Barcelona forward Lionel Messi scored his 700th career goal on Tuesday, scoring from the penalty spot to put his team ahead against Atletico Madrid in a home match at Camp Nou. Messi has now scored 630 goals for Barca in 724 appearances in all competitions and another 70 for Argentina in 138
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1:00 PM ET USL Championship side Louisville City FC will open its new venue, Lynn Family Stadium, on July 12 with a match against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds and fans in the stands, sources have told ESPN. The second tier USL Championship has been shut down since March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Along with
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3:05 AM ET With additional reporting by Antonio Chamorro, Rob Dawson, Mark Ogden and Julien Laurens. It’s not just the support Richarlison misses but the adulation. “We are used to having fans shouting, asking for pictures, singing our songs,” the Everton forward told ESPN Brasil. “It is a little weird, but we have to get
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6:02 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona youngster Marc Jurado has confirmed his departure from the Catalan club after running down his contract ahead of a move to Manchester United this summer. ESPN revealed in May that Jurado, who has been at Barca for almost a decade, had turned down several offers to stay
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6:05 PM ET Associated Press Matt Miazga has made 18 appearances for the United States. Quinn Harris-USA TODAY Sports United States defender Matt Miazga will be suspended for Reading’s next three matches after getting into a fight with Derby’s Tom Lawrence following a 2-1 loss on Saturday. What did you miss? The latest from Europe’s top
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3:06 AM ET Zinedine Zidane once told Vogue, during his dalliance with modelling: “It’s not that I’m doing something different — it’s a continuation.” And he was right: the elegant playmaker would not look out of place on the catwalk wearing the tricolore France jersey in which he won the World Cup, or the classic
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7:31 PM ET Graham HaysESPN.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. Players in the NWSL Challenge Cup now have the option of remaining in the locker room during the national anthem, the league announced in a statement Monday. The change comes after the
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11:06 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona midfielder Arthur has joined Juventus in a transfer worth up to €82 million, the two clubs announced on Monday, with Miralem Pjanic set to move in the other direction. Pjanic’s move to Barca will be announced soon, sources have told ESPN, with the Bosnia and Herzegovina midfielder
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9:57 AM ET Ajax and U.S. men’s national team (USMNT) defender Sergino Dest has said he wants to be the most expensive full-back in the world and play with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Dest has been linked with a big-money move away from Ajax this summer with several top European clubs, including Bayern Munich,
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5:30 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has warned Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial they will have to continue improving to keep their places at Old Trafford. Rashford and Martial have both scored 19 times this season — the best individual tallies of their careers — but Solskjaer insists their form
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5:55 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said he is expecting midfielder Angel Gomes to leave the club. The United boss had been hopeful Gomes would sign a new contract but with no update on the situation and the 19-year-old’s deal due to expire on Tuesday, he now looks set
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1:47 PM ET Adriana Garcia Portugal’s health secretary on Monday stated that no fans will be at the upcoming Champions League games in the country “under the current pandemic situation.” UEFA decided on June 17 that the final stages of the 2019-20 Champions League will be held in the Lisbon from Aug. 12-23, rather than
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6:57 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona manager Quique Setien’s relationship with his players is already showing signs of straining, with various sources having told ESPN they didn’t click from day one. Barca led La Liga in January when Setien replaced Ernesto Valverde, who was sacked after the Spanish Supercopa defeat to Atletico Madrid
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