News of champions

Messi chooses Guardiola reunion to get up and running with PSG

28-09-2021 21:09 It was the moment the fan had really been waiting for ever since Lionel Messi was unveiled as a Paris Saint-Germain player nearly two months ago.

International football

Continental champions Italy and Argentina to face off in June

28-09-2021 14:30 Italy and Argentina will face each other next June 2022, in a first meeting between the winners of the Euro and the Copa América, UEFA and CONMEBOL announced on Tuesday.

FOOTBALL

This is it: Messi gets set for PSG Champions League bow

14-09-2021 13:27 Lionel Messi went to Paris to win the Champions League again – on Wednesday he's set to finally make his first start for his new club when they kick off their European campaign in Bruges.

STRIKER BIDS FAREWELL

Agüero ends Man City career in style before title party

23-05-2021 19:09 Sergio Agüero signed off for Manchester City in style on Sunday, scoring twice in a 5-0 romp for the Premier League champions against Everton before lifting the trophy for the fifth time in his Etihad career.

EUROPEAN FOOTBALL

English fan power forces Super League billionaires into hasty retreat

21-04-2021 09:24 Leaders of the breakaway European Super League were searching for ways to rescue the ill-fated project on Wednesday after all six English clubs pulled out amid a furious reaction from fans, officials and politicians.

European football

FIFA vows 'consequences' for Super League clubs as backlash intensifies

20-04-2021 11:51 Breakaway plan prompts furious reaction from fans and officials, with UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin saying Monday it was motivated by "greediness, selfishness and narcissism."

Football bombshell

Super League announcement opens unprecedented conflict in European football

19-04-2021 10:47 A planned breakaway Super League announced by 12 of European football's most powerful clubs and backed by US investment bank JPMorgan is roundly condemned by fans and federations across the continent.

Football

Refreshed Mauricio Pochettino embraces the PSG project

02-03-2021 14:36 Mauricio Pochettino was given the luxury of time at Tottenham Hotspur to build a team that would go on to reach a Champions League final, but the Argentine knows the demands are different now he is in charge at Paris Saint-Germain.

FOOTBALL

Messi, Ronaldo set to renew stellar rivalry in Champions League

07-12-2020 12:30 Lionel Messi's rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo has enthralled football for the better part of a decade, and the pair will duel for potentially the final time when Barcelona host Juventus in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Champions League Football

Messi’s silence raises more doubts about Barcelona future

21-08-2020 14:43 Barcelona lost 8-2 in the Champions League quarterfinals last week to Bayern Munich.

BARÇA IN CRISIS

Questions surround Messi’s future amid Barcelona chaos

18-08-2020 07:56 Barcelona fired coach Quique Setién on Monday, three days after the team’s humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, the first step in what it said would be “a wide-ranging restructuring" of the club.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SHOCK

'Rock bottom': Barca reeling after Champions League humiliation

15-08-2020 08:30 A night of utter misery in Lisbon for Barcelona, as the pandemic-enforced single-game reformatting of a knockout stage and Bayern Munich deliver an killer blow to the club's legendary stars.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SHOCK

'Hard to comprehend': Brutal Bayern hit eight past Barcelona

15-08-2020 08:25 A merciless Bayern Munich inflicted a humiliating, record defeat on Barcelona on Friday, recording a scarcely believable 8-2 victory in their Champions League quarter-final in Lisbon.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Messi's toughest task as Barcelona face up to Bayern Munich

13-08-2020 00:46 Lionel Messi might never have been faced with a more daunting task at Barcelona than engineering a victory against Bayern Munich in Lisbon on Friday.