Sports analysis website Sportico has published a list of what it claims are the 50 most valuable football clubs in economic terms. Manchester United tops the list, despite their poor performances in the Champions League and Premier League. Real Madrid and Barcelona are close behind.
Selangor FC and Malaysia national team winger Faisal Halim is "responding well" after being subject of an acid attack, a sports official said Friday.
The Spanish Football Federation approved Atletico Madrid's appeal to overturn a partial stadium ban imposed due to racial abuse aimed at Athletic Bilbao winger Nico Williams on Thursday.
Philadelphia Union have inked a professional contract with 14-year-old prodigy Cavan Sullivan, which includes a move to Manchester City when the talented teenager reaches 18.
The association representing professional footballers, the global players' union FIFPRO, has warned FIFA about the extensive and damaging nature of the calendar adopted by Infantino and his cohorts at world football's governing body.
Yon de Luisa Plazas, a member of both the FIFA Executive Council and the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football (Concacaf), stressed the importance of each host nation having clear objectives for its participation.
The rivalry between Argentina's Crespo and Australia's Kewell in the Champions League will be revived in the two-legged final of Asian football, which begins in Japan this Saturday.
The former president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, will stand trial for kissing Jenni Hermoso without her consent, according to the Spanish player herself, after winning the Women's World Cup last year.
Selangor FC have pulled out of Friday's Charity Cup, the traditional curtain raiser to the Malaysian football season, after star forward Faisal Halim was left with fourth-degree burns in an acid attack last weekend.
An iconic trophy linked to Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" World Cup victory is set to be auctioned and is expected to fetch millions.
Nottingham Forest's attempt to overturn a four-point deduction for violating the Premier League's Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) has been unsuccessful.
FIFA has extended an invitation to Pedro Rocha, recently appointed President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation to replacethe controversial Luis Rubiales, to attend the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, from 13-17 May.
Former national team captain Safiq Rahim escaped unhurt on Tuesday when two men smashed the rear windscreen of his car in the latest of a spate of attacks on high-profile Malaysian footballers.
Xabi Alonso's unstoppable Bayer Leverkusen will have an added incentive when they take on Roma at home in Thursday's Europa League semi-final: the chance to break a 59-year-old European football record.
Kylian Mbappe, the leading figure in French football, will not be able to say his farewell in a Champions League final after being beaten by German side Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday, depriving him of playing his final game before leaving PSG on June 1 in next month's final at Wembley.
When British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the Olympic gold medal in ice dance at Sarajevo 1984 with 12 perfect 6.0s from every judge, for their interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Boléro, an important member of their team was singer-actor Michael Crawford. Crawford, who had played Frank Spencer in British sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and the title role in the musical The Phantom of the Opera, had become a mentor to the pair in 1981 and went on to help them create their Olympic routine. Crawford said he “taught them how to act". He was present with their trainer Betty Callaway at the ringside at Sarajevo as they created one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history.
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Pierre de Coubertin once said cricket has "practically no appeal for those who are not British". While he expressed doubts about the Olympic viability of cricket, lacrosse and baseball, Philip Barker wonders how the man who helped revive the modern Games would have reacted to new sports at Los Angeles 2028.
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