New York Times: Soccer
- For Europe’s Soccer Chief, the Outrage Arrives in Waves
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 01:00 AMA Champions League restructuring and a looming fight with Manchester City have UEFA’s Aleksander Ceferin sitting atop a soccer economy that feels as if it’s pulling itself apart.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. Women’s National Team Beats New Zealand in World Cup Tuneup
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 12:11 AMCari Lloyd scored twice, and Alyssa Naeher got the shutout.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UEFA Investigators Set to Seek Manchester City’s Ban From Champions League
Monday - 05/13/2019 - 01:33 PMManchester City, eager to add a Champions League trophy, could face a ban of at least a year from the competition for lying about violations of UEFA’s financial reporting rules.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Inside a Premier League Title Race in Which No One Dared to Blink
Sunday - 05/12/2019 - 02:00 AMManchester City hasn’t lost since January, and Liverpool only once all season. How two teams pursued perfection, and each other, to the season’s final day.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: A Dream Delivered, and Another Dashed, in One Unforgettable Moment
Wednesday - 05/08/2019 - 06:53 PMTottenham stuns Ajax with three goals to earn a date with Liverpool in the Champions League final.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Dying Craft, Made to Order
Monday - 05/06/2019 - 03:00 AMOn the outskirts of Mexico City, a cobbler makes handmade soccer cleats in a family workshop, preserving a tradition all but extinct in the era of mass production and NAFTA.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Ajax, Unshakable on Champions League Stage, Inches Closer to Final
Tuesday - 04/30/2019 - 07:15 PMCool and confident, Ajax beat Tottenham, 1-0, in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal in London.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: The Premier League’s Parity Problem
Friday - 04/26/2019 - 10:02 AMEngland’s Big Six clubs are dominating the Premier League again. Changes to the way television money is distributed could ensure things stay that way.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. Soccer Rejects Relevent’s Bid to Host Ecuadorean Match
Tuesday - 04/23/2019 - 06:34 PMA fight between the soccer federation and the promoter escalated, with U.S. Soccer claiming its hands were tied by a FIFA rule regarding official games in foreign countries.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Critic’s Notebook: In Soccer, Power’s Always in Play
Wednesday - 04/17/2019 - 09:30 AMA new exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris explores how the game embodies political and social changes in Africa, the Middle East and beyond.
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- On Soccer: The World’s Most Dominant Team Isn’t Who You Think
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 12:27 PMOlympique Lyonnais will play for its fourth Women’s Champions League title on Saturday. There may not be a team on earth that can match its talent advantage, or its dominance of its sport.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Manchester City Financial Inquiry Moves Closer to a Ruling
Thursday - 05/16/2019 - 07:28 AMThe club, one of the biggest in the world and the Premier League champions for the last two years, is accused of misleading officials about its income.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Manchester City Wins Premier League Title, Raining Goals to Leave No Doubt
Sunday - 05/12/2019 - 12:09 PMPep Guardiola’s team holds off Liverpool by a point, repeating as English champions and raising the bar for its rivals ever higher.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Proposal to Restructure Champions League Leaves Out Most of Europe
Thursday - 05/09/2019 - 04:14 PMA proposal being pushed by some of Europe’s richest clubs would effectively seal off the Champions League, leaving as few as four of its 32 spots for teams from Europe’s 55 national leagues.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Liverpool Takes Its Chances, and Barcelona Kicks Its Away
Tuesday - 05/07/2019 - 07:12 PMA thrilling 4-0 victory at Anfield sent Liverpool back to the Champions League final, and Lionel Messi off to wonder how it all went so wrong.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Familiar Look for Women’s World Cup Team
Thursday - 05/02/2019 - 01:13 PMCarli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath, Becky Sauerbrunn and Kelley O’Hara will all be part of the team in France.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.K. Police Investigate Photo Said to Be of Soccer Striker Emiliano Sala’s Body
Sunday - 04/28/2019 - 09:21 AMA picture said to be of the Argentine player, who died in a plane crash in January in the English Channel, was shared on social media.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Manchester City Sweeps Aside United and Its History, Inching Closer to Premier League Title
Wednesday - 04/24/2019 - 07:45 PMOle Gunnar Solskjaer understands Manchester United’s past, but risks venerating it at the expense of the present, and the future.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Its Joy Ripped Away, Manchester City Fades in Crushing Silence
Wednesday - 04/17/2019 - 07:54 PMBoth City and Tottenham experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows in a drama-packed quarterfinal that ultimately saw City fall short again.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: A Genius in Full Bloom, Lionel Messi Lifts Barcelona
Tuesday - 04/16/2019 - 07:55 PMHe has remained soccer’s great, enduring constant, but Messi has subtly morphed himself on the field, perhaps now reaching the most complete version of himself.
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- Lyon Routs Barcelona to Win Fourth Straight Women’s Champions League Title
Saturday - 05/18/2019 - 02:58 PMLyon, the gold standard in women’s club soccer, scored four times in the first 30 minutes and earned its sixth European crown since 2011.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Manchester City and European Soccer Arrive at a Moment of Reckoning
Wednesday - 05/15/2019 - 02:00 AMBoth a proposal to alter the Champions League and the news that Manchester City could be barred from playing in it were stories about the same thing: power, and who holds it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Liverpool Learns That Great Isn’t Always Good Enough
Monday - 05/13/2019 - 02:00 AMAt Anfield on Sunday, it waited all afternoon for deliverance that never arrived, for a celebration worthy of a remarkable runner-up campaign in the Premier League.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In All-English Champions League Final, Big Clubs Already Have Won
Thursday - 05/09/2019 - 12:43 PMA competition increasingly dominated by rich teams from big leagues gets a final for its era: The Premier League powers Liverpool and Tottenham will meet in Madrid on June 1.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sepp Blatter, Who Departed FIFA in Scandal, Wants the Watches He Left at the Office
Wednesday - 05/08/2019 - 01:32 PMThe former FIFA president has demanded the return of dozens of luxury timepieces, and says he is ready to sue to get them back.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Two Goals and Too Good: Messi Carries Barcelona Past Liverpool
Wednesday - 05/01/2019 - 07:25 PMLiverpool executed Jürgen Klopp's plan just as he had drawn it up. But Lionel Messi had other ideas, and there was no stopping him or Barcelona when the teams met in the Champions League.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - She Has Friends at FIFA. At Home, It’s Mostly Critics.
Sunday - 04/28/2019 - 12:49 PMIsha Johansen of Sierra Leone, one of the few women ever to run a national soccer federation, is in the fight of her professional life to keep her post.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: Twisted Loyalties as Liverpool Looks to Manchester United for Help
Wednesday - 04/24/2019 - 12:01 AMFew fixtures in recent history have been as disorienting for fans as Wednesday’s Manchester Derby, where a United win or draw would boost Liverpool’s title chances.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Relevent Sports Sues U.S. Soccer, Escalating Fight Over Sanctioning
Monday - 04/22/2019 - 10:44 AMA proposed league match between Ecuadorean teams in Miami has become a proxy in a fight between Relevent and a U.S. Soccer partner, Soccer United Marketing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Soccer: In Curiously Cordial Premier League Race, Rivals Lift Each Other’s Games
Friday - 04/12/2019 - 02:00 AMLiverpool’s emergence as a genuine rival has not diminished Manchester City’s greatness. Rather, it has accentuated it.
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