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Former England winger Raheem Sterling has been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving following a single-vehicle collision in Hampshire. The 31-year-old footballer allegedly crashed his Lamborghini into the southbound barriers of the M3 motorway near the Minley Interchange. Police officers detained the sportsman at the scene of the accident on Thursday morning. Authorities confirmed that no…
Lionel Scaloni has named Lionel Messi as captain of Argentina’s 26-man World Cup squad, quelling intense speculation over the forward’s physical fitness. The definitive roster announcement ends months of public silence from the 38-year-old talisman regarding his historic sixth tournament appearance. Panic had rippled through Buenos Aires earlier this week when Messi suffered a sudden…
Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni announced that the initial medical diagnosis regarding Lionel Messi’s hamstring injury is not entirely negative. The national team captain faces a critical round of secondary clinical evaluations to determine his availability for the tournament. Messi sustained the injury while playing for his club side, Inter Miami, during a domestic league fixture…
Lionel Messi faces an uncertain timeline for his return to football after medical tests confirmed a hamstring injury. Inter Miami announced on Monday that the forward suffered an overload associated with muscle fatigue in his left hamstring. The diagnosis follows his early exit from a Major League Soccer match on Sunday night. Messi walked off…
Arsenal officially lifted the Premier League trophy on Sunday after concluding their victorious domestic campaign with a 2-1 win at Crystal Palace. Gabriel Jesus and Noni Madueke scored at Selhurst Park to secure the club’s twenty-sixth victory of the season. Mikel Arteta’s squad had already clinched the title on Tuesday night when nearest rivals Manchester…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing the prospect of being shut out of the 2026 FIFA World Cup if its national team fails to comply with a strict 21 day isolation directive issued by United States health and tournament authorities ahead of the squad’s scheduled June 11 arrival in Houston, Texas. The…
Manchester City will rename the North Stand at the Etihad Stadium to honour departing manager Pep Guardiola. The club announced the tribute following the Spaniard’s decision to step down at the end of the current football season. The newly redesigned section will take the name “The Pep Guardiola Stand” to mark his decade-long tenure in…
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association has announced that the FIFA World Cup 2026, scheduled across 16 host cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19, will become the first edition of the global tournament to feature live sign language interpretation broadcasts for every single match, a landmark…
European football’s governing body is set to fundamentally reshape how nations earn their places at major tournaments, with UEFA drawing up plans to replace its traditional group-based qualification system with a format modelled after the UEFA Champions League’s “Swiss system” structure. The proposed reform, reported by the Economic Times on Thursday, would affect qualification…
Twenty-two years. That is how long Arsenal supporters have waited for a sentence this simple: Arsenal are champions of England. It ended, as these things so often do in football, not with a winner at the Emirates, not with a last-minute redemption arc, but with a 1–1 draw in Bournemouth on a Tuesday night in…
