Beckenbauer captained West Germany to a World Cup victory on home soil in 1974. Franz Beckenbauer – one of Germany’s greatest football players, who captained the country’s team to World Cup victory in 1974 then won the tournament again as manager in 1990 – has died at the age of…
European football’s governing body UEFA is set to “lose a lot of power” in the wake of a recent court ruling on a breakaway league, experts have said, as the continental body’s long-standing monopoly on the running of the sport faces a new challenge. The European Court of Justice (ECJ)…
Tournament format, venues, title favourites, groups and prize money for AFCON 2023 in Ivory Coast. The Confederation of African Football’s (CAF’s) highly anticipated African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2023 is set to kick off on January 13 in the Ivory Coast, where the continent’s biggest stars are expected to shine…
French striker says he’s ‘very motivated’ at PSG but hasn’t made up his mind about where he’s going to play next season. Paris St Germain forward Kylian Mbappe says he has not made up his mind about where he will play next season as his contract enters its final six…
A few minutes after joining the elite 150-goal club for Liverpool and helping his team climb to the top of a closely contested Premier League table, Mohamed Salah laid bare his ambition to “win this competition”. The player of the match in Monday’s 4-2 win over Fulham had already shifted…
Hermoso appeared at a court in Madrid to give her version of the kiss by Luis Rubiales, which sparked a crisis in Spanish football. Spanish World Cup-winning star Jenni Hermoso has told a judge that the kiss forced on her by disgraced former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales was “at…
There is a new power in Central Asian football and, a year ago, it did not even exist. Turkmenistan’s Arkadag FC kicked their first-ever ball in a competitive game just in April with a 2-1 win over Merw in the country’s top division. They then strolled to the league title…
The FIFA World Cup in Qatar may have fallen in 2022, but 2023 went a long way towards matching last year for stories and events. Here are Al Jazeera’s top 10 football moments from the men’s game for this calendar year: 1. Manchester City win the Champions League Manchester City…
In the week Manchester United’s protracted sale saga finally came to an end, in the shape of a purchase by Jim Ratcliffe, the on-field drama returned as well. The sale of the Red Devils was done the hard way and, so too, the 3-2 victory against Aston Villa on Tuesday…
Ratcliffe will also provide $300m for future investment into the struggling football club’s Old Trafford stadium. INEOS Chief Executive Jim Ratcliffe has become a minority shareholder in Manchester United, buying a 25 percent stake at a price of $33 per share, says the Premier League club. INEOS, which will assume…
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