ROTTERDAM — Croatia scored twice in extra time to beat the Netherlands 4-2 in their Nations League semifinal in Rotterdam on Wednesday and advance to Sunday’s decider.
Croatia will play either Italy or Spain, who face off in the second semifinal in Enschede on Thursday, for a first major title as they continued their form from last year’s World Cup in Qatar, where they finished third.
In the grand history of Concacaf, there's never before been a tournament where our gladiators have entered the arena and spectators have murmured amongst each other: "See them there? Them's Canada. They're going to slaughter everyone."
At least not since Craig Forrest was standing between the sticks.
New United States men’s national team interim head coach B.J. Callaghan will make his debut on Thursday against Mexico in the Concacaf Nations League semifinals. Fans are incredibly curious about what the USMNT starting XI vs Mexico will look like.
Callaghan was thrust into the head coaching job after Gregg Berhalter’s contract ran out (among a lot of other drama) and former interim head coach Anthony Hudson left the role early to pursue a head coaching job in Qatar.
During Barcelona's recent Women's Champions League Final victory over Wolfsburg, nine Spanish players helped show why Barça are the preeminent force of the club game. It should logically follow that Spain are one of the pre-tournament favorites at this summer's World Cup, but on Monday their 30-player provisional roster was released with some big names already omitted before the squad is cut to 23.
Inter Miami took to the pitch Saturday against New England at Gillette Stadium with Lionel Messi nearly 7,000 miles away in Beijing — no matter, the Revs still drew a season-high crowd of 36,235 just looking to get a glimpse of the (awful) visiting team that now houses the seven-time Ballon d'Or winner.
Ya en receso liguero y después de la finalización del Clausura 2023, los jugadores de la Liga MX empiezan a aprovechar el tiempo libre para hacer actividades familiares. Héctor Moreno, por ejemplo, no dudó en usar las vacaciones para iniciar una nueva etapa dentro de su clan y que acaba de convertirlo en compadre de Xavi, DT del Barcelona
Así, como lo leyeron. Xavi Hernández, leyenda y actual campeón de LaLiga como director técnico del FC Barcelona, se integró oficialmente a la familia Moreno-Martínez.
La idea del México vs Camerún era sacudir ideas, crear una nueva ilusión. Sin embargo, al final del partido la sensación es que el Tri sigue siendo víctima de los mismos pecados que viene arrastrando de la era Martino.
Y con un partido ante Estados Unidos a la vuelta de la esquina, en las semifinales de la Nations League, digamos que los niveles de optimismo no son como para andar descorchando champagne.
New United States men’s national team forward Folarin Balogun said that he was surprised when U.S. fans discovered his location in Orlando from an Instagram post back in March.
Balogun on wanting anyone to know he was in Orlando from THAT pic:
“…I showed it to my agent to see if it was OK. From the pic I couldn’t make out that I was in . When the comments started coming in…I was just kinda surprised & overwhelmed.”
BEIJING/SHANGHAI — Argentine superstar Lionel Messi arrived in Beijing on Saturday for a friendly match before leaving a storied European career to join Major League Soccer side Inter Miami as a free agent.
The 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia/New Zealand is right around the corner kicking off on July 20. The United States women’s national team’s opener vs. Vietnam is on Friday, July 21 at 10 p.m. ET.
FOX will be broadcasting the tournament and released a one minute and 25 second ad on Friday that features several USWNT players and their biggest opponents trying to stop them.
The humorous video shows fans from other top countries at the World Cup like England, Brazil, Germany and more devising comedic plans to end the U.S. Women's dominant run in the World Cup.