A peculiar Thierry Henry Pulisic interaction after Liverpool’s 3-1 victory vs. AC Milan on Tuesday has some fans criticizing the Frenchman.
The moment took place after the final whistle when CBS’ crew of Kate Abdo, Henry, Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards were asking the USMNT forward questions.
MANCHESTER — Players could be close to strike action over the amount of games they are required to play, Manchester City midfielder Rodri warned on Tuesday on the eve of their Champions League opener against Inter Milan.
Expanded Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup formats, alongside enlarged national team competitions, has made for a greater number of games for top teams and players, and Rodri is the latest to say the workload is too great.
Rodri strike claim
Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo crossed one billion followers across his social media accounts, aided by his newly-launched YouTube channel that has attracted more than 60 million subscribers in just over three weeks.
Ronaldo, who scored his 900th career goal last week to help Portugal beat Croatia 2-1 in the Nations League, is the first human being to reach a billion followers on social media, global media reports said.
Cristiano Ronaldo 1 billion followers
The Football Association have charged Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur after the Uruguayan made a racist remark about South Korean people when talking about his teammate Son Heung-min during a television appearance.
Bentancur, 27, has until Sept. 19 to respond to the charge.
Rodrigo Bentancur charge
FC Rapid Bucuresti in Romania’s SuperLiga might have the weirdest reveal video for a new signing we’ve ever seen. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton appearing in a signing announcement for a Romanian team is the last thing we expected.
The club landed 31-year-old Cameroon forward Clinton N’Jie from Turkish side Sivasspor on Wednesday. According to the reveal video he is “the real Clinton.”
Bill Clinton soccer transfer video
The wait for a new United States men’s national team head coach is over as Mauricio Pochettino if officially in charge. The Pochettino USMNT salary details reveal that he's the highest paid U.S. head coach in history.
Mauricio Pochettino USMNT salary details
This season the UEFA Champions League is bigger than ever before (literally) as a new format will see eight games per club and a total of 36 teams competing.
American soccer fans know all too well the struggles of trying to watch games in the middle of the day on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We at The18 are fortunate enough to spectate Champions League games, but we know others don’t have that privilege.
The best we can do is provide these seven excuses/hacks to watch the big games while on the clock in the office this season.
Manchester City midfielder and Belgium captain Kevin De Bruyne said money talks louder to FIFA and UEFA as he raised concerns over the impact of a crammed calendar on players' health and performance.
All three European club competitions have been expanded to 36 teams this season and FIFPRO's European member unions have started legal action against FIFA over the expanded men's 32-team Club World Cup, starting next June in the United States.
An honor at a Washington Nationals game proved costly for standout Washington Spirit midfielder Croix Bethune.
The U.S. national team player was placed on the season-ending injury list on Wednesday after sustaining a torn meniscus away from training last week, the team announced.
Spirit coach Jonatan Giraldez filled in the rest of the story: Bethune was injured while throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at a Nationals game.
Croix Bethune first pitch injury
For the first time since 2003 neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Lionel Messi have been included in the nominees for the men's Ballon d'Or award, which were announced on Wednesday, with England's Jude Bellingham among the 30 players named.
Portugal's Ronaldo, who has won the award five times, also failed to receive a nomination last year, while Messi, who won for a record eighth time in 2023 and has been nominated 16 times, misses out despite Argentina's Copa America win this year.
Messi and Ronaldo not nominated for Ballon d'Or