10:14 AM ET Associated Press An Israeli football referee has come out as transgender and is living — and enforcing the rules of the game — as a woman. Sapir Berman announced on Tuesday she has received the support of her family, the local referees’ union and Israeli and international football officials. She said players
Month: April 2021
7:12 PM ET Eden Hazard has said he feels “in better condition” and ready to make an impact in Real Madrid‘s end-of-season run in after coming off the bench in their 1-1 Champions League draw with former club Chelsea. Hazard played the last 25 minutes of the Champions League semifinal first leg at the Alfredo
6:36 PM ET In the end, the clubs’ colour schemes told the tale. Chelsea blue shirts, blue-collar work ethic. Real Madrid, by a distance the most famous white strip in the history of football, white-collar “bosses,” who like things to happen the way they want to happen — not necessarily the way that the actual
3:38 PM ET Christian Pulisic celebrates after scoring a goal for Chelsea in the Champions League. Getty Christian Pulisic has become the first United States men’s international to score a goal in a Champions League semifinal, after netting in the first half of Chelsea‘s tie with Real Madrid. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S.
5:00 AM ET The death of football icon Diego Maradona late last year was a landmark moment for the whole of Argentina, and the entire soccer world mourned the loss of the former Boca Juniors, Barcelona and Napoli forward. Maximiliano Bagnasco’s experiences since that day show how much Maradona still means to his home nation,
10:26 AM ET Keller referred to vice president Rainer Koch, a civil judge, as ‘Freisler.’ Martin Rose/Getty Images The president of Germany‘s Football Association (DFB) Fritz Keller has apologised publicly for making a Nazi reference when talking to his vice president in a meeting last week, saying it had been a “grave mistake.” Keller referred to
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