Football

Pep Guardiola admits injury-plagued Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy faces an important challenge to prove his long-term fitness and reliability over the final weeks of the season. Mendy has seen his career hindered badly by injuries...

Teenage star Moise Kean said Saturday that he had learned from Juventus teammate Cristiano Ronaldo after scoring his first goal for Italy in what he hopes will be a record-breaking career. The 19-year-old forward was the...

Argentina suffered a shock 3-1 defeat to Venezuela on Friday as Lionel Messi made his first international appearance since the 2018 World Cup. Barcelona star Messi started the fixture following a self-imposed eight-month exile in which...

Adelaide United’s Danish forward Ken Ilso Larsen was suspended Friday after testing positive for cocaine. The 32-year-old returned a positive sample for benzoylecgonine — the drug’s main byproduct — in January and is now under investigation...

Argentina is willing to provide assistance to arranging training sessions for Bangladeshi footballers there. Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship Jorge Marcelo Faurie came up with the assurance at a meeting with his Bangladesh counterpart...

German coach Marco Kurz’s contract with Australian club Adelaide United will not be renewed when the season ends, with the two sides sharing no “common vision”. The former Borussia Dortmund defender has been increasingly at loggerheads...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s plan to expand the Qatar World Cup to 48 teams and increase the number of host countries risks worsening existing Gulf diplomatic tensions, claim analysts. The ambitious expansion proposal — which Infantino...

Maurizio Sarri admitted he is worried about his Chelsea team’s “mentality” after they fell to a 2-0 defeat at Everton that severely damages their hopes of a top-four finish in the Premier League. Richarlison and Gylfi...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted Manchester United produced the poorest performance of his reign as Wolves sent them crashing out of the FA Cup on Saturday with a 2-1 quarter-final win. But United’s interim manager was remarkably...

FIFA has recommended expanding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from 32 to 48 teams, world football’s governing body confirmed on Friday. A final decision on a possible expansion will be taken in a vote of...