The Brazilian is reportedly keen on a move but a deal seems some way off. A £25m offer was lodged to Man City but was instantly rebuffed by the Premier League champions. While Ederson is staying put for the time being, it appears that Pep Guardiola is planning for his exit. City hav...
The rise of his popularity is being likened to that of his former team-mate Endrick, whose stock grew in a similar fashion when he was signed by Real Madrid at just 16 years old, before finally making the move this summer. Just like Endrick, Estevao has already made his senior...
This is a difficult question as popularity depends on how you define it. If we are talking about local popularity of Ronaldinho – in his home country Brazil – he got a lot of attention when he was 13 years old – in 1993. He played for a junior team and scored over 20 goals in ...
As a couple of the above records have hinted at, Messi had a phenomenal 2012. No matter which side of the fence you’re on, there’s no denying that the record he set that year -most football goals scored in a calendar year(91) - is one of the most impressive sporting achievements ...
lack of support for the home team. However, I lean towards looking at the situation from another perspective. Coventry's indomitable will and Oxford United's youthful storm might bring some challenges to PSG, and a draw or a narrow victory for the visiting team is not out of the question....
Any team that formally signs up for the Club World Cup then withdraws will be fined “at least 250,000 Swiss francs” ($290,000), FIFA rules said on Tuesday, if the decision is made at least 30 days before the first game. Any withdrawal after mid-May will get a fine of “at leas...
The bottom-up approach (individual event stats) suggests Haaland might be the best player in the world, and the top-down approach (inferring individual performance based on team performance) says the same thing. The beauty of soccer is that outside of a few eras of truly unmistakabl...
Away from competitive action, the sample size is much smaller. There have been 34 exhibition games featuring the two sides down the years, with Barca emerging victorious in 20 of those. Real have claimed only four wins, while there have been 10 draws. ...
Historically, the Ballon d'Or goes to a player from a successful team and over the years, Real Madrid have been perennial winners, especially with Ancelotti in charge. Jude Bellingham is in his second season as a Madrid player and although he struggled in the early stages of the campaign ...
The emblematic former defender of the Indomitable Lions (137 caps, four goals) was hired in 2022 by Samuel Eto'o, his former teammate, who is the president of the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fécafoot). Song had previously managed the team on an interim basis between 2017 and 2018, wh...