LONDON – The British government on Tuesday moved closer to giving its blessing to the purchase of Chelsea FC, one of European soccer’s blue-ribbon teams, by an American-led investment group after deciding it had sufficient assurances that none of the proceeds from the record sale price – $ 3.1 billion – would flow to the …
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From the vantage point of its end, there is something strange and distant – almost alien – about the start of a season. It is only 10 months ago, after all, barely the blink of an eye, and yet beliefs and convictions and truths from back then now seem as archaic as the idea that …
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Real Madrid, the European soccer behemoth, closed a deal in which the investment firm Sixth Street, based in the United States, will buy a 30 percent stake in the team’s stadium operations. The announcement Thursday came amid growing optimism among executives that Real Madrid, a 13-time European champion, could complete a deal to sign Kylian …
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The Qatar World Cup was always going to be a World Cup of firsts. The first time sport’s most-watched event is to be played in the Middle East. The first time it will be played in November and December. And now it may also be the first men’s World Cup to have a game refereed …
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LONDON – A candid window into the glamorous world of English soccer, and an exposé of the machinations of back-stabbing celebrities. A phone lost to the sea, along with the evidence it supposedly contained. And a legal whodunit with powerhouse lawyers dissecting private WhatsApp messages in open court as tears flowed on the witness stand. …
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For the first time, soccer players representing the United States men’s and women’s national teams will receive the same pay and prize money, including at World Cups, under landmark agreements with the US Soccer Federation that will end years of litigation and bitter public disputes over what. constitutes “equal pay.” The revised pay structures are …
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Idrissa Gueye traveled south to Montpellier with his Paris St. Germain teammates for the team’s league game on Saturday but wound up watching it from the stands. Gueye was not injured, his coach said after PSG’s victory: he “had to leave the team for personal reasons.” Those personal reasons, a team source confirmed Monday, were …
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Manchester City appears to have won the race to sign striker Erling Haaland, with multiple published reports indicating that the 21-year-old Norwegian goal-scoring machine will be the latest addition to a star-studded roster that is on the cusp of winning its fourth Premier League title in five years. In a transfer that had been rumored …
Russia was ejected from this summer’s European women’s soccer championship and barred from qualifying for the 2023 Women’s World Cup on Monday, deepening a sporting isolation that resulted from the country’s invasion of Ukraine. UEFA, the governing body for soccer in Europe, announced its decisions Monday. In addition to barring Russia’s team from the two …
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English soccer’s biggest soap opera – the bidding war to own Chelsea FC – appears to be entering its endgame. The Raine Group, the New York merchant bank appointed to sell the Premier League soccer club on behalf of Roman Abramovich, a Russian oligarch whose assets have been frozen by the British government, is poised …
