2 h. ago Lionesses star Jess Carter reveals how rugby roots helped footballing dreams

The England defender used to play rugby before fully committing to football

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18 h. ago Celtic confirm third summer transfer as player with 'enormous potential' agrees long

Celtic have confirmed their third signing of the summer transfer window.

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18 h. ago Woman 'can't sleep at night' after being told she looks like famous football player

A woman has shared her dismay after being compared to a famous English football player - but some YouTube viewers believe this isn't her only celebrity lookalike

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24 h. ago Africa aims to lift standards and retain talent after Club World Cup wipeout

Fifpro Africa general secretary Kgosana Masaseng wants a reaction after all four sides from the continent made an early exitIt is a familiar take on the Club World Cup, but comes from a different perspective. “From the games I have watched, football has taken a lot away from the players,” says Kgosana Masaseng, the general secretary of Fifpro Africa.“You are talking about teams that have just completed their domestic leagues, who were playing continental club championships. Players were also representing their national teams. So the schedule has been demanding. It has taken a toll and, now, there’s no break; it’s straight away into another competition.” Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Meet the Lioness cubs: England's little girls who fought to play football

The Lionesses will head to Switzerland next week as the defending champions at the Women's Euros with their first match against France on Saturday July 5

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34 h. ago Man City player ratings vs Juventus with five 8/10s as Tijjani Reijnders stars

Manchester City battered Juventus 5-2 in Orlando to claim top spot in their Club World Cup group with ease

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35 h. ago Hibs win battle for key player with 'perfect physical attributes for Scottish football'

Popular defender was pivotal figure in third place finish last season

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37 h. ago ‘A bit like a new era’: Lauren James on England’s Euro 2025 ambitions

Chelsea forward on the way her brothers sharpened her skills and how the country can get behind the Lionesses‘I think it was in me from when I was young,” says Lauren James of the fierce competitive drive that has taken her from playing football with her brothers, Josh and Reece, in a park behind their house in Mortlake, south-west London, to England’s opening match of Euro 2025 against France in Zurich on 5 July. The 23-year-old returns from injury as the most likely catalyst for England’s hopes of remaining European champions because she has the skill and tenacity to be one of the tournament’s standout players.“It helped playing with my brothers all the time,” James says as she reflects on a footballing journey when her prodigious talent has blossomed with Chelsea and England while being tested by insidious abuse and racism. We need two interviews to get a little closer to the tangled heart of her story, but her natural reticence and reluctance to open up deserves respect. Co...

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37 h. ago Brain injuries hearing: ‘no safe number of times’ a footballer can head the ball

Former players in joint action against FA, EFL and FAWClaimants include family of World Cup hero Nobby StilesThere is “no safe limit” for heading a football, the high court heard, as lawyers acting for former players who suffered permanent brain injuries sought to advance their case against the game’s authorities.Claimants in the case argue that the authorities should have made players aware of the risks they were taking by heading a ball as far back as the 60s, claiming that information on the danger of repeated blows to the head was in the public domain. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago I went back to the team where it all started. I am able to be the role model I never had | Pernille Harder

I recently spent time coaching 80 girls at FC Midtjylland, the team where I began my career but had to leave in my teens as they had no women’s team I will be on a plane on Monday with Denmark heading to Switzerland to take part in my fourth Euros, but before the tournament I went back to where it all began for me, to Danish side FC Midtjylland. I was there to spend time coaching 80 girls from the age of eight to 13.More than 20 years ago, I began my own journey there and things looked very different then. There was no women’s team and no women who played football. For me to go back as a role model these girls gives me a lot of energy. There is no better way to ground yourself than to be reminded where you came from. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Scottish Premiership club stalwart unable to play in own testimonial after being injured in car crash

Ex-Hibs and Rangers defender undergoes surgery

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51 h. ago 10 players out of contract next summer who can solve Manchester United transfer priorities now

United are expected to be busy in the summer transfer window

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68 h. ago The nine players who will definitely leave Manchester United next week

Man United will say farewell to a crop of players at the beginning of next week.

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68 h. ago The nine players definitely leaving Manchester United next week

Man United will say farewell to a crop of players at the beginning of next week.

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3 d. ago One Man City player might have just changed Pep Guardiola's transfer plans

Claudio Echeverri caught the eye for Manchester City in the Club World Cup.

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3 d. ago Chelsea player ratings vs ES Tunis: Liam Delap off the mark as Josh Acheampong maraudes

The summer signing opened his account with a cooly taken strike

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3 d. ago Rangers transfer state of play as Max Aarons spotted arriving at Ibrox and Cyriel Dessers plays waiting game

The Bournemouth man is closing in on joining Russell Martin's new era at the Light Blues

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3 d. ago Scotland's most valuable footballer 2025: The top 12 Scottish players with the highest transfer value

Here are the 12 highest valued Scottish footballers - Scott McTominay, Andy Robertson and Billy Gilmour

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3 d. ago Teenager will grow up with only one foot because of unlicensed taxi driver

Before it happened, the boy loved boxing, playing football, and riding his bike and scooter, and had just started an apprenticeship as a carpenter

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3 d. ago Football Daily | Suárez defies age and dodgy knees to set up PSG clash dripping in narrative

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!In December 2023, shortly before signing for Grêmio, Luis Suárez warned that his footballing days were numbered. His right knee had become so painful, following a Covid-affected rehabilitation from surgery in 2020, that he could barely walk. “In my last stage of recovery, the pandemic came and I had to do exercises on my own and I couldn’t finish stretching my knee,” he told Uruguayan media. “On the inside I have cartilage wear and that hits the bone. The days before each game I take three pills and hours before playing I get an injection. If not, I can’t play. Hence the limp. I have to think that in maybe five years I won’t be able to play five-a-side football with my friends. The truth is that the first steps in the morning are very painful. Anyone who sees me thinks that it is impossible for me to play a game. My son asks me to play with him and I can’t.”It is almost impossible to train or to make a session because of the weather...

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