4 h. ago Columbus Crew’s Darlington Nagbe to retire after four MLS Cups in 15 seasons

Nagbe has played the fifth-most MLS matches everWon championships with three different teamsColumbus Crew midfielder and four-time MLS Cup champion Darlington Nagbe will retire at the end of the season, the player and club announced Tuesday.Nagbe, 35, ranks fifth in MLS history with 444 regular-season matches and has tallied 38 goals and 48 assists since being drafted No 2 overall by the Portland Timbers in 2011. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Forgotten Man Utd flop set for Lionel Messi linkup after more than THREE MONTHS without club

Lionel Messi is set to lose two of his Inter Miami team-mates to retirement at the end of 2025 but a former Premier League defender could soon be joining the Argentina star

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6 h. ago Lionel Messi braced for emotional farewell as Barcelona icon officially announces retirement

Lionel Messi is set to see another Inter Miami team-mate retire at the end of the season, just weeks after the news broke that Sergio Busquets is calling time on his illustrious playing career

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66 h. ago Inter Miami star Lionel Messi’s nephew makes sad admission – ‘We’ve suffered a lot'

Lionel Messi's nephew and godson Tomas has spoken openly about his relationship with the Inter Miami superstar and what it's like to be related to a football legend

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5 d. ago Manny Pacquiao announces major career move after retirement U

Pacquiao’s boxing career has been revived, but his work outside the ring continues

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5 d. ago Novak Djokovic shows true colours with classy message as tennis star announces retirement

Novak Djokovic has wished Gael Monfils well as the French tennis star announced his intentions to retire at the end of the 2026 ATP Tour season, having shared the court with him 20 times

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6 d. ago ‘Showman’ Gael Monfils announces retirement plans: ‘I have been insanely lucky’

Monfils said he was ‘completely at peace’ with his decision to retire at the end of the 2026 season, at which point he will be 40

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7 d. ago Rebecca Adlington has ‘a lot of anxiety’ about new pregnancy after miscarriages

The retired swimming star announced her pregnancy last week.

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7 d. ago Skyrim Grandma announces YouTube retirement after a decade of videos ahead of Elder Scrolls 6

The 89-year-old YouTuber says she’s ‘not having any fun’ making the gaming videos

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7 d. ago LAFC’s Denis Bouanga is thriving with his new strike partner: ‘I feel so good with Sonny on the pitch’

Any questions about how the Gabon international would gel with Son Heung-min have been put to rest after a historic scoring runWhen Son Heung-min arrived at Los Angeles Football Club last month, there was a huge sense of excitement: here was South Korea’s most popular athlete and one of the best Asian footballers in history. In a city with the largest South Korean community in the United States, there was also a belief that – just as with Lionel Messi and Miami – the diaspora would create a strong bridge between club and city.But this was also about LAFC itself. Undoubtedly, there was much Son could offer to Steve Cherundolo and a squad that was already blessed with attacking talent, including Denis Bouanga, the 30-year-old France-born Gabon international. Just before Son’s debut for LAFC on 9 August against Chicago Fire, Bouanga – a three-time All-Star – had 13 goals in the league and had long served as the main goal threat for the club, who at the time were sixth in the Western Co...

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8 d. ago Chris Woakes announces retirement from international cricket

The England all-rounder has retired from Three Lions duty with immediate effect

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1 week ago Wales international announces retirement as he starts next chapter

The former Wales wing has officially hung up his boots

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1 week ago Lionel Messi set for emotional farewell as Barcelona legend officially announces retirement

Barcelona legend Sergio Busquets has announced that he plans to retire at the end of the season and he will fittingly get chance to call time in his career playing alongside Lionel Messi

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1 week ago Cat On The Road To Findout by Yusuf/Cat Stevens review – fame, faith and charity

The enigmatic singer-songwriter on pop stardom, becoming a Muslim and returning to the stage decades laterWhen Cat Stevens changed his name to Yusuf Islam and announced his conversion to the Muslim faith and retirement from music in the late 70s, Bob Dylan apparently remarked that he had “finally stopped trying to be the prophet and begun to follow The Prophet”. It’s a quote that Islam reproduces in his autobiography, viewing it as a benediction, but it also tells you something about the music that made him globally famous.In the early 70s, the charts were awash with sensitive folky singer-songwriters. Their constituency, as Islam perceptively notes, was “the college generation, away from home, lonely and trying to find their place in the university of high academic expectations”. But none were as obsessed with spirituality as Cat Stevens, with his album titles that namechecked Buddha or referenced Zen poems, his conceptual song cycles based on numerology, his lyrical...

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1 week ago Greatest footballing celebrations of all time sees Messi lose out to Peter Crouch

Gazza’s ‘dentist chair’ from Euro ‘96 and Lionel Messi’s ‘the Barcelona shirt’ moment feature in the top 20 most memorable - but fans just want players to do more of them

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1 week ago Football Daily | Ekitiké joins another red family: prematurely disrobing before an early bath

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!If you’re going to plagiarise you might as well copy from the best, but when Hugo Ekitiké decided to pay homage to Lionel Messi by replicating one of the Argentinian’s more iconic celebrations, his tribute came at a cost to Liverpool. While Messi famously wheeled away in celebration, removed his shirt and pointedly held it up in front of the Bernabéu crowd after scoring a late, late winner for Barcelona in a five-goal thriller at Real Madrid in 2017, Ekitiké has now rather more infamously done the same thing after scoring a tap-in from an excellent Federico Chiesa assist against Championship opposition in the third round of Fizzy Cup. And while both players were routinely shown yellow cards for what has now been a bookable offence for more than 20 years, at least the one brandished in the direction of Messi was only his first of the match, so he wasn’t sent off. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kate and William's support for Southport: Royals visit schools of tragic stabbing victims and wear friendship bracelets gifted by grieving mother in 'emotional' private meeting

The Prince and Princess of Wales have sat down for an emotional conversation with the parents of two of the girls brutally murdered in the Southport attack.

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2 w. ago Lionel Messi sends message to Ousmane Dembele after Ballon d’Or triumph

Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi sent congratulations to his former Barcelona teammate after the Frenchman claimed the prestigious prize

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2 w. ago Lionel Messi showed what he's like with Zinedine Zidane remark and not looking at Thierry Henry

Lionel Messi has always been a humble and down-to-earth figure, even at the height of his powers - a fact that is underscored by stories involving Thierry Henry and Zinedine Zidane

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2 w. ago Ballon d'Or 2025: Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe send Ousmane Dembele messages as tributes pour in

Frenchman beat off competition from Spanish starlet

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