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Antoine Griezmann's New Contract Means He Isn't Going To Manchester United—Yet
One of the most important decisions shaping the upcoming Premier League season didn’t actually involve any team from England. That decision was in the hands of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which had to rule on Atlético Madrid’s appeal of their FIFA-imposed two-window transfer ban. Though not ...
Real Madrid Won Everything And Don't Have Much To Show For It
Real Madrid, whose riches and fame and consistent, historic success as a club are unmatched in soccer’s long history, just capped off one of their greatest seasons ever—and it was just the latest of a string of triumphant years that by all rights should indelibly brand this era as their own. They pu...
Real Madrid Pay 45 Million Euros For The Rights To A Child<em></em><em></em>
That braces-rocking, baby-faced kid with his tongue out who you see above is Brazilian club Flamengo’s teen sensation Vinícius Júnior. Vinícius is 16 years old; he has racked up all of about a dozen minutes of pro-level soccer; and, as the club confirmed today, he has just become the most expensive ...
Real Madrid Finally Overcame The World's Best Player By Building The World's Best Team
For close to a decade now, Real Madrid have been tasked with solving the most difficult problem facing any club in the whole sport: What do we do about Lionel Messi?...
Barcelona Fans Celebrate Messi Goal With Homage To His <i>Clásico</i> Celebration
It was a full-on party today in Barcelona as the Catalan club blasted Osasuna by a score of 7-1. Before the game, fans unveiled a massive banner to commemorate Lionel Messi’s 500th Barça goal, the one he scored this weekend when he snipped the balls off of Real Madrid and then celebrated in the most...
Lionel Messi Turned A Meaningless <i>Clásico</i> Into One For The Ages<em></em>
Barcelona probably won’t win anything significant this season. They remain underdogs for the league title, were ousted from the Champions League by Juventus after surviving the Paris Saint-Germain tie by the skin of their teeth, and can only really count on a Copa del Rey consolation prize to cap of...
Messi Scores 500th Goal For Barcelona With Gorgeous Game-Winner In Stoppage Time
Lionel Messi scored his 500th goal for Barcelona in style today—notching a game-winner in stoppage time for the club to take El Clasico by a score of 3-2....
Barcelona Drop Bid To Have Neymar's Ban Suspended, Confirm He Will Not Play In Clasico
Two days after lodging an appeal against a three-game suspension for Neymar, Barcelona announced that they will not call up the Brazilian star for today’s match against Real Madrid....
Neymar Gets Three-Game Suspension, Will Miss Match Against Real Madrid
Neymar picked the absolute worst time to lose his cool. After picking up two cheap yellow cards in a match against Málaga and sarcastically applauding one of the referees on his way off the pitch, Neymar has been handed a three-match suspension today. That means he’ll have to sit out Barcelona’s cri...
Giuseppe Rossi, America's Lost Star, Touches The Sky And Falls Back To Earth, Again
There are two times American fans of European soccer are reminded of Giuseppe Rossi, boundlessly talented yet heartbreakingly star-crossed striker and The One That Got Away. One reason is good and the other one is bad, and both prompts were recently triggered in the span of a single, exultant-turned...
Lionel Messi And Luis Suárez Are Extremely Good At Soccer
Barcelona and Sevilla, respectively the second- and fourth-placed teams in La Liga, are midway through what on paper should’ve been a tense, tough match. Only one of those teams has Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, so it’s already a blowout thanks to those the genius of those two....
Sergio Ramos Is Real Madrid's Cocky, Header-Scoring Savior
Sergio Ramos has a magical forehead imbued with the power to score clutch goals. This head of his brings unending joy to Real Madrid fans, despair to opponents and rivals, and is arguably the most valuable body part in Madrid this side of Cristiano Ronaldo’s priceless right leg....
Fernando Torres's Severe Head Injury Sends Fellow Players Into A Panic
Late on in today’s Atlético Madrid-Deportivo match, Fernando Torres clashed with a Deportivo player while going up for a header, and fell face first onto the ground, apparently unconscious. The way Torres fell itself is nasty, but it’s the distraught reaction of the players who saw the injury up clo...
Antoine Griezmann Follows Up Teammate's Near-Miss Wondergoal With Wondergoal Of His Own
Just when it looked like Atlético Madrid would come away empty handed after a deep blast from full back Filipe Luís came crashing off the woodwork, Antoine Griezmann responded almost immediately with an even more audacious hit of his own that sailed over the keeper’s head and into the back of the ne...
Mesut Özil Recounts Ridiculously Dramatic Tiff With José Mourinho In New Book
If you hear about this anecdote from Mesut Özil’s forthcoming autobiography excerpted in Bild, it will probably focus on the fact that when Özil and José Mourinho were at Real Madrid, they once got into an argument in which Mourinho called Özil a coward. This is true, and pretty interesting in itsel...
How Luis Enrique Lost His Place At Barcelona
It’s seemed pretty likely for a while now, and became all but inevitable after the humiliation in Paris last month, but it is now official: Barcelona manager Luis Enrique will not coach the team next season....
Barcelona Are Miserable
If there’s been one consistent attribute of Barcelona’s play over the past decade or so that has seduced fans and neutrals and even ostensible enemies to buy a ticket to the Camp Nou or to flick on the TV to whichever obscure channel wound up with the La Liga broadcasting rights or to trawl sketchy ...
Good Soccer Man Embarrasses A Quartet Of Defenders
Jonathan Mejía and his UCAM Murcia squad lost to Real Valladolid on Saturday in some hot second-division Spanish soccer action, but really, who cares, for young Mejía scored the goal of his life. Look at the Honduran international turn these four dudes into jelly....
Fernando Torres Goes Back In Time, Scores Gorgeous Overhead Goal
Atlético Madrid got an early equalizer against Celta de Vigo today when Fernando Torres tapped into his past greatness to flip an overhead strike and loft it past keeper Sergio Álvarez. Fancy! Maybe he’ll get that new contract after all....
Aleix Vidal Stretchered Off After Horrible Ankle Injury At End Of 6-0 Match
Barcelona butchered Deportivo Alavés 6-0 today, but lost their right back as Aleix Vidal had to be stretchered off following a nasty ankle injury following a tackle in the 87th minute....