AC Milan will play Inter Milan in an exhibition game at Foxborough, Mass., on July 26, just the third meeting outside Italy between the city rivals. The match at Gillette Stadium will come on the final day of the World Football Challenge, a four-team tournament that also includes England’s Chelsea and Mexico’s Club America. “It’s […]
Villarreal will offer unemployed season-ticket holders free passes in 2009-10 to help fans feeling the effects of the global economic crisis, president Fernando Roig said on Tuesday. “Season-ticket holders who are on the dole will be allowed in free next year,” Roig told a news conference. “The idea is to think of the club’s wider social […]
Real Madrid’s 3-0 win at home over Almería failed to ruffle Barcelona as the Catalan side hit six goals in a match for the fourth time this term during a 6-0 masterclass against Málaga that kept them six points clear in the Liga. With Madrid kicking off earlier on Sunday, Juande Ramos’s side had […]
Winners Liverpool What a 10 day period it has been for Liverpool fans. A title race with just one listed runner ten days ago has become interesting again. Manchester United remain, literally, the odds-on favorites but their having a wobble. United should still have the final word in the final chapter but the story belongs […]
Landon Donovan scored two goals in the final 10 minutes to give the Los Angeles Galaxy a 2-2 tie with D.C. United on Sunday in the MLS opener for both teams. Christian Gomez and Chris Pontius scored for D.C. United, which built a 2-0 lead after 62 minutes before Donovan brought his team all the way […]
Steven Gerrard warned Manchester United that in-form Liverpool are ‘pouncing on any mistakes’ made by the champions after scoring his first Premier League hat-trick in their 5-0 victory at home against Aston Villa. Rafael Benítez’s side displayed the aura of a team that had scored four times in comprehensive victories against both Real Madrid and […]
Zlatan Ibrahimović struck twice as Internazionale Milano re-established their seven-point lead in Serie A with a 3-0 win over Reggina while Genoa kept themselves in fourth by beating Udinese 2-0. Juventus had cut Inter’s cushion at the top to four points with Saturday’s 4-1 victory at Roma, but the Italian titleholders never looked like wobbling […]
The wait is finally over and the 2009 Major League Soccer finally kicked off this weekend. Here is a look at the games this weekend. Houston 1 Columbus 1 Guillermo Barros Schelotto scored in the 81st minute to give defending MLS champion Columbus a 1-1 season-opening tie against the Houston Dynamo. Houston’s Brian Ching broke […]