8 d. ago Premier League club dealt AFCON blow as star called up AFTER deadline

Premier League clubs were forced to release their Africa Cup of Nations representatives by December 15 but national teams are have been able to make late changes

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9 d. ago Milan’s Serie A match in Australia called off after ‘unacceptable requests’

Milan-Como was intended for Perth on 8 FebruaryAsian Football Confederation wanted to impose conditionsThe proposal to play a Serie A match between Milan and Como in Perth, Australia, has been cancelled due to football sanctions and conditions imposed by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).The game was set to become the first major European domestic league fixture to be played outside its home country but will now not go ahead because of the financial risks and last-minute complications. Continue reading...

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1 week ago How to watch Man United and Man City stars at AFCON for free on UK TV and live streams

The Africa Cup of Nations 2025, featuring Premier League stars including Omar Marmoush, Amad and Bryan Mbeumo, kicks off on Sunday

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1 week ago Asian Football Confederation to introduce new Nations League tournament

The AFC follows in the footsteps of the Confederation of African Football, which plans to introduce a similar tourmament in 2029

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1 week ago Meet ParalympicsGB's Scottish star who swapped wheelchair basketball for curling ahead of Milano Cortina 2026

McKenzie also played wheelchair basketball in the National League Premier Division

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1 week ago Trump says war with Venezuela is possible – US politics live

President says ‘I don’t rule it out’ when asked about the possibility of conflict during NBC interviewThe Trump administration announced on Thursday it will suspend a green card lottery that allowed a man believed to be behind both a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor into the United States.Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, is accused of bursting into a building at the Ivy League school on Saturday and opening fire on students, killing two and wounding nine. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Brown shooter revealed to be PhD student whose main target was MIT professor as Reddit post that led to his demise is revealed

The gunman who opened fire at Brown University and killed two students has been revealed to be a Portuguese national who studied at the Ivy League school more than 20 years ago.

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1 week ago Brown shooter revealed to be Portuguese national and former PhD student who killed MIT professor before being found dead at storage facility

The gunman who opened fire at Brown University and killed two students has been revealed to be a Portuguese national who studied at the Ivy League school more than 20 years ago.

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1 week ago Brown shooter revealed to be Portuguese national and former PhD student with links to murdered MIT professor as he's found dead at storage facility

The gunman who opened fire at Brown University and killed two students has been revealed to be a Portuguese national who studied at the Ivy League school more than 20 years ago.

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2 w. ago Which Premier League teams will be affected by the Africa Cup of Nations?

Six Sunderland players are off to the tournament but Chelsea, Arsenal and Aston Villa are not losing anyoneBy Opta AnalystThe Africa Cup of Nations begins on Sunday in Morocco. Thirty-two Premier League players have been selected to represent their national teams at the tournament but some clubs will be hit harder than others.Sunderland have enjoyed an excellent return to the Premier League, with their derby win over Newcastle on Sunday taking them to 26 points from 16 games. They have already picked up more points than the three promoted clubs did last season – Leicester (25), Ipswich (22) and Southampton (12). However, they will have some key absentees over the next month. Six Sunderland players will be with their national teams, representing nearly a fifth of all Premier League players at the tournament, and double the tally of any other club. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago When will Man United and Man City's AFCON players return? All the key dates

The arrival of this year's Africa Cup of Nations will see several Premier League teams miss some big names for the festive period, with Manchester United and Manchester City among them

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3 w. ago ‘Hating soccer is more American than apple pie’: the World Cup nobody wanted the US to host

Glitzy draws, OJ-era chaos, grass laid over AstroTurf and a host nation that barely cared – the 1994 World Cup arrived amid suspicion and slapstick. Yet it became a watershed that would alter US sport and global football politics alike“The United States was chosen,” the columnist George Vecsey wrote in the New York Times in 1994, “because of all the money to be made here, not because of any soccer prowess. Our country has been rented as a giant stadium and hotel and television studio.” Nobody could seriously doubt that. The USA had played in only two World Cups since the second world war and hadn’t had a national professional league for a decade. And that meant there was a great deal of skepticism from outsiders, even after Fifa made it clear there would be no wacky law changes to try to appeal to the domestic audience: Would anybody actually turn up to watch?But there was also hostility in the United States. A piece in USA Today on the day of the draw told Americans they were right...

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3 w. ago Africa Cup of Nations shunted into margins as greedy game finds no room at top table | Jonathan Wilson

So long as the Premier League invests in its players and Fifa pays it lip service, the continent’s flagship tournament will always struggle to fit inPerhaps attitudes are not quite as parochial as they once were, but it remains true that, in England at least, the Africa Cup of Nations is discussed less as a tournament in its own right than in terms of what it means for the Premier League.There will be the usual harrumphing about why the tournament is played in the middle of our season, but the Confederation of African Football has tried to satisfy European clubs only to be thwarted by Fifa and the increasing demands of the calendar. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Emma Coates leaves England U23 role to become head coach at NSWL’s Bay FC

Coates ‘ready and excited’ to replace Albertin MontoyaU23 assistant Gemma Davies to join Coates in San JoseEmma Coates has left her position as the leader of England Women’s Under-23 national team to become the new head coach of the NWSL side Bay FC.Coates replaces Albertin Montoya, who was the coach of the expansion team when it entered the National Women’s Soccer League two years ago. Montoya announced in September that he would resign at the end of the 2025 season, with the San Jose side finishing 13th in the 14-team table. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Emma Coates leaves England U23 role to become head coach at NWSL’s Bay FC

Coates ‘ready and excited’ to replace Albertin MontoyaU23 assistant Gemma Davies to join Coates in San JoseEmma Coates has left her position as the leader of England Women’s Under-23 national team to become the new head coach of the NWSL side Bay FC.Coates replaces Albertin Montoya, who was the coach of the expansion team when it entered the National Women’s Soccer League two years ago. Montoya announced in September that he would resign at the end of the 2025 season, with the San Jose side finishing 13th in the 14-team table. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Busiest train stations in London revealed as Elizabeth line helps capital to dominate national league table

London has the 10 busiest stations in the country

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4 w. ago FIFA confirm AFCON decision that impacts Man Utd and Liverpool

African Cup of Nations starts this month and Premier League clubs are expected to be without a number of key players throughout the tournament

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4 w. ago Spain make do without injured Aitana Bonmati to retain Nations League title

Spain 3-0 Germany: The world champions were able to retain the Nations League despite the absence of Ballon d’Or winner Bonmati as Claudia Pina starred

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4 w. ago Spain sink Germany to retain Women’s Nations League title as Hermoso makes return

Too slick, too quick and, ultimately, just too good at football; Spain reaffirmed their standing as the best team in the world as they outclassed Germany and retained the Women’s Nations League title in spite of the absence of their injured superstar Aitana Bonmatí.The world champions were playing their first game since their Ballon d’Or-winning midfielder was ruled out for five months after undergoing surgery on a broken leg, but anybody who worried that her absence may disrupt Spain’s stylish football was immediately proved wrong, as they demonstrated the extensive depth of talent across their classy team and eventually played some ruthless football to dispatch their rivals at the Estadio Metropolitano. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Man Utd and Liverpool handed major AFCON boost as new Premier League deadline agreed

Manchester United and Liverpool are among the Premier League clubs set to lose players to the Africa Cup of Nations with Bryan Mbeumo and Mohamed Salah two of the big names involved

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