A Dubai business group bought Spanish football club Getafe on Thursday for at least €70 million, becoming the latest Middle East investor to take over a European team. The Royal Emirates Group of Companies wouldn’t say exactly how much it paid for the topflight Spanish club. But Kaiser Rafiq, a partner and managing director of […]
Real Salt Lake took a massive step toward winning the CONCACAF Champions League with a 2-2 tie against defending Mexican league champions Monterrey in Mexico. RSL’s Javier Morales was the hero as his dramatic equalizer in the 89th minute, swung the advantage to RSL and put the MLS team in pole position to become the […]
UEFA has fined Villarreal and its players Nilmar and Santi Cazorla after they appeared to get deliberate yellow cards in the Europa League quarterfinals. UEFA says it fined Villarreal €60,000 and the players €20,000 each. However, UEFA’s disciplinary panel declined to suspend the pair for the first leg of the team’s semifinal against FC Porto […]
Inter Milan’s chief executive Ernesto Paolillo has assured Leonardo over his future, but more importantly he said that Inter won’t be going on spending spree on players this summer. “The man of the future is Leonardo and we will continue with him,” Paolillo told the AP in London. “We have had in this last period […]
Real Madrid claimed their first trophy under Jose Mourinho when Cristiano Ronaldo’s dramatic extra-time winner secured a 1-0 King’s Cup final victory over arch-rivals Barcelona. With penalties looming in a tense and occasionally physical cup final, Ronaldo rose above Adriano in the 103rd-minute, to power in Ángel Di María’s excellent cross following an exchange of […]
Arsenal’s title aspirations are all but over as they lost a two-goal lead and drew 3-3 with Tottenham Hotspur. Meanwhile Chelsea jumped over the Gunners into second place as they beat Birmingham City 3-1. The North London derby was an enthralling game and if you were a neutral, must have been a fantastic game to […]
Jose Mourinho’s paranoia has to be growing after Andres Iniesta escaped a UEFA ban after getting a ‘deliberate’ booking for time-wasting. Iniesta has been cleared of picking up a deliberate yellow card against Shakhtar Donetsk and will not face any action from UEFA’s disciplinary committee, which means he can now play against Real Madrid at […]
In a move that should excite its fan base the New England Revolution have acquired US national-team member Benny Feilhaber. Feilhaber who is 26, who has played the last two seasons for Denmark’s AGF Aarhus, signed with MLS on April 15, and as a returning U.S. National Team player, was available to teams through the […]
Jose Mourinho’s paranoia has to be growing after Andres Iniesta escaped a UEFA ban after getting a ‘deliberate’ booking for time-wasting. Iniesta has been cleared of picking up a deliberate yellow card against Shakhtar Donetsk and will not face any action from UEFA’s disciplinary committee, which means he can now play against Real Madrid at […]