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France scrapes 1-0 win but moves 4 points clear in Group D

Defending champion France scraped a 1-0 win at Bosnia-Herzegovina to move four points clear in World Cup qualifying, after ...

Chelsea, Barcelona reach Women's Champions League semifinals

Chelsea and Barcelona advanced to the semifinals of the Women’s Champions League on Wednesday. Pernille Harder scored against ...

Chelsea to face Porto in Champions League in neutral Spain

Chelsea and Porto will play both legs of the Champions League quarterfinals in neutral Spain because of travel restrictions ...

Benzema to stand trial in October for alleged blackmail

Karim Benzema will face trial in October for his alleged involvement in blackmailing former France teammate Matthieu Valbuena ...

Aguero to leave Man City at end of season after 10 years

Sergio Aguero, Manchester City’s record scorer, will leave the English club after 10 years when his contract expires at the ...

European women's soccer vision sees place for indie clubs

Independent teams should have a place beside storied names from men’s soccer even as the women’s game develops rapidly, the ...

2nd-division match postponed in Spain because of coronavirus

Another match by second-division club Mirandés was postponed on Monday because of the coronavirus. The team's game against ...

Musah tied to the US with appearance at Northern Ireland

Midfielder Yusuf Musah became tied to the United States by making his fourth international appearance in Sunday's exhibition ...

Dutch players make rights statement ahead of Latvia match

The Netherlands national team wore T-shirts on Saturday emblazoned with the words “Football supports change,” in an apparent ...

Xabi Alonso stays at Sociedad, ending talk of Gladbach move

Former Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso has signed a contract extension as coach of Real Sociedad’s reserve team, putting an end ...

Spain held by Greece; Ibrahimovic returns with Sweden

Spain's newcomers couldn't add the spark “La Roja” needed in its World Cup qualifying opener. Youngsters Bryan Gil and Pedri ...

Denmark happy to hear noisy booing fans in 2-0 win at Israel

Being booed by the home fans made Denmark forward Martin Braithwaite a happy man in Israel on Thursday. Braithwaite scored ...

Norway team makes human-rights statement before WC qualifier

Norway's national team used its opening qualifying game for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to make an apparent statement about ...

France draws 1-1 with Ukraine, Finland held 2-2 at home

Defending champion France opened its qualifying campaign for the 2022 World Cup with a tame 1-1 draw against Ukraine, while ...

Lyon, Chelsea, Barça and Bayern win in Women's CL final 8

Wendie Renard calmly netted a late penalty as five-time defending champion Lyon beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0, while ...

Musah bonded with Americans, made him want to switch to US

Yunuf Musah was sold on switching from England to the United States after spending time with American players during a ...

Luis Enrique praises youngsters debuting with national team

Spain coach Luis Enrique has had only a few days to work with some of the youngsters he called up for the national team for ...

Dest, Sargent part of US team prepping for dizzying stretch

Sergiño Dest’s calendar has a dizzying and body-crushing jam of obligations next fall as a result of soccer’s congested ...

Spain’s good problem: Under-21s depleted as players move up

The rapid rise of some talented youngsters has created a good problem for Spanish soccer before this week’s World Cup ...

Bale plans on returning to Real Madrid after Tottenham loan

Gareth Bale plans to end his Tottenham stay at the end of the season and return to Real Madrid. The Wales captain returned ...