11:12 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Editor’s note: Tor-Kristian Karlsen is a Norwegian football scout and executive and is the former chief executive and sporting director at AS Monaco. He will write regularly for ESPN on the business of soccer and the process of scouting. In his latest column, he looks at Gabriel, the Lille defender
Month: September 2020
3:07 PM ET Tab Ramos and Memo Rodriguez hit it off from the very beginning. It was last October when Ramos had just been hired as the Houston Dynamo‘s manager, and with the team’s season having just concluded, Rodriguez was in the process of getting in a set of postseason workouts. Rodriguez swung by his
9:32 AM ET Napoli have launched a passionate defence on Twitter after their players were pictured receiving cryotherapy during training in garbage bins. Images of players standing in tall, individual bins were published on social media, and Napoli moved to add context, citing anti-coronavirus measures as the reason for the use of the containers. –
12:15 PM ET Lionel Messi‘s father will meet Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu for crunch talks aimed at resolving his son’s future on Wednesday afternoon, sources have confirmed to ESPN. Jorge Messi — who is also his son’s agent — is flying from Argentina to help break the ongoing deadlock between club and player. Sources