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January 2024

Sam Kerr

Kerr honoured at FIFA awards as Ange, Gustavsson miss out

Sam Kerr was named in the FIFA FIFPRO Women’s World XI, voted for by players around the world.

August 2023

Spain are World Cup champions.

Women’s soccer is just starting to roar

England and Spain are home to the two richest soccer leagues. From a business and marketing perspective, it was the dream Women’s World Cup final.

June 2023

Manchester City wins first Champions League title

The Champions League win means City has completed a rare treble of trophies after winning the English Premier League title and FA Cup this season.

November 2021

Lionel Messi: “It’s incredible to be here again. Two years ago I thought it was the last time.”

Messi claims record-extending seventh Ballon d’Or

The Argentine forward added to his 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2019 trophies after winning the Copa America for the first time with his country last July.

PSG teammates Aminata Diallo (left) and Kheira Hamraoui.

PSG player Aminata Diallo arrested after attack on teammate

Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Aminata Diallo has been taken into police custody in connection with an attack on one of her teammates.

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August 2021

A tearful Lionel Messi addresses a media conference in Barcelona, where he has spent 21 years with the club of the same name.

Tearful Messi confirms he is leaving Barcelona, in talks with PSG

The Argentine star said FC Barcelona could no longer afford paying his high wages, and he was in negotiations with French club Paris St Germain over a possible move.

April 2021

Fans of Chelsea Football Club protest against the European Super League outside Stamford Bridge.

‘Utter chaos’: The inside story of the Super League own goal

Twelve of Europe’s top clubs planned to shake up the sport. Instead, the project collapsed spectacularly in just 48 hours.

Fans gather to protest against the European Super League prior to La Liga match between Cadiz and Real Madrid in Cadiz.

Super League backer says breakaway competition is on standby

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez says the clubs behind the Super League will continue working on a way to make the competition work, even if changes have to be made to its format.

Liverpool’s Thiago, right, is challenged by Real Madrid’s Federico Valverde.

The fans, it turns out, are also voters

Human spirit has triumphed over the brutal logic of the market – now fans must truly take control of their clubs.

It’s over. Chelsea fans celebrate outside the team’s Stamford Bridge stadium in west London.

Super League breakaway in tatters after English clubs quit

Manchester City were the first to back out of the venture and then Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea announced they were following suit.

Lionel Messi’s FC Barcelona will be missing in action when this year’s Champions League quarter-finals kick off.

European Super League explained: teams, format, winners and losers

How the proposed competition would work, which clubs would be involved and whether the Champions League will survive.

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