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The footage shows how things played out after a 911 call on Saturday morning alleged that “there is a parent here that’s really, really disruptive.”

Brandi Kruse describes being forcibly removed from a Portland Thorns match for wearing XX-XY shirts while those who allegedly attacked stayed.

For nearly two decades, the Ballon d’Or was defined by a rivalry that transcended soccer. It was essentially just a battle between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

France Football has awarded the Ballon d’Or for the Best Male Player. Here, we explain more about the prestigious accolade and its winner.

At the 70th Ballon d’Or ceremony in London, England forward Harry Kane won the award for the 2025/26 season. Kane finished ahead of Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé.

⚽️ Ballon d’Or updates from 8.45pm GMT/4.45pm ET ⚽️ Ceremony returns to England in nod to Stanley Matthews ⚽️ Women’s power rankings: will a new winner be crowned? ⚽️ Send your thoughts to Daniel via email Talking of UK winners, it’s absolutely insane to think that, in 1968, three winners – Denis Law, Bobby Charlton and George Best – played in the same Manchester United team. Now, though, despite the money in the Premier League and with the exception of Erling Haaland and Bruno Fernandes, the best attackers are found in La Liga and Ligue 1. That looks likely to change only in the next generation and only if English clubs develop their own elite talent DAZN have just interviewed Michael Owen, since the sad death of Kevin Keegan the only surviving British winner. If I’m honest, he did pretty well to get that, which isn’t to decry his efforts – in Rome and Cardiff especially – but the best player in the world? Not for me, Clive. Continue reading...

A 3-year-old soccer prodigy was reportedly kicked out of a Florida i9 Sports league after parents complained about his dominance and playing time.

It was just like old times as José Mourinho ended a night at Camp Nou with a knee slide and three points José Mourinho had already done the por qu é? , the printout and the press conference no-show in under 100 days. Now he’s done a knee slide too, and in the perfect place: back where it all began and where it can all begin again. When Kylian Mbappé scored the first in the clásico on Sunday night, Real Madrid’s manager hardly moved, sitting in the shadow of the bench – but when the striker got the second to win it with time running out, that was different. Mourinho leapt into the light, throwing himself to the grass, the knees of a 63-year-old’s trousers muddy as a schoolboy’s, stuck his tongue out and pumped his fists. He does so love it when a plan comes together. To the right of him, the bench was emptying, subs joining the players in sprinting towards the south-west corner. As they leapt about, dodging the bottles thrown towards them from the end, way, way up in the furthest corner and stuck inside a glass box like a bunch of David Blaines, the small group of Madrid fans who had come were going mad. In the main stand, a thousand phones were raised. And 600 kilometres west, back in Boadilla, Thibaut Courtois was watching his teammates from the sofa at home, presumably wrapped in a blanket and cradling a cup of Lemsip. On the morning of the biggest game there is, he awoke with flu, forced to miss out. Continue reading...

International football's most prestigious honor will be given out today.

After completing what has no doubt been one of the most fruitful careers in sports history, Memo Ochoa reflects on his past and his future.

There’s plenty of blame to go around at Old Trafford. Like all downfalls it started with a seemingly small, unconnected moment Sign up for our free newsletter here And so here we are again, at that point as the nights draw in and Manchester United prepare to sack a manager . Autumn: season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and a crisis at Old Trafford. Sunday’s 3-0 home defeat to Bournemouth , coming on the back of last week’s 4-1 reverse against Como, made clear what many had feared from the moment Michael Carrick was given the job on a permanent basis: that he isn’t up to it. But then, who could be? When you’ve burned through a long list of managers in 13 years, it’s perhaps worth considering whether the manager is really the problem. Could some blame perhaps go to the director of football, Jason Wilcox, or the chief executive, Omar Berrada, the people making the appointments? Or perhaps to Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the cost-cutting tax exile and minority shareholder with responsibility for sporting operations? Or to the Glazer family, who plunged the club into debt with a leveraged buyout in 2005 and have since made calamitous decision after calamitous decision, reducing the most successful club in English league history to a mid-table laughing stock with a roof that leaks symbolically ? This is an extract from Soccer Desk, a newsletter from the Guardian US. Subscribe for free here . Continue reading...

Midfielder Bruno Fernandes was benched by Michael Carrick for Manchester United's latest defeat to Bournemouth.

The Orlando City product scored his first goal in La Liga, playing three positions in a comeback win over Valencia While most of La Liga’s oxygen was consumed by the first el clásico since José Mourinho’s return to Real Madrid this weekend, another rivalry put Alex Freeman in the spotlight position. Or quite a few positions, as it turned out. Continue reading...

An angry mob of pro-trans spectators clashed with women advocating for keeping men out of women’s sports, and stadium authorities forcibly removed the pro-women activists from the stadium. The women, who held a “Save Women’s Sports” banner at a Portland Thorns professional women’s soccer game on Sunday, were suddenly surrounded by pro-trans activists. Video from ...

In MLS, the rare clubs that have dared run afoul of the league's cumbersome roster regulations are also the ones that have been staples of the league's growth.

Bournemouth’s transfer nous puts United to shame, Araújo is winning admirers at Anfield and Suzuki adapts swiftly at Villa The three Bournemouth goalscorers cost a combined £85m, joining from Vasco da Gama, Middlesbrough, and Porto. The Cherries are smart at investing, far more so than Manchester United, who have wasted a lot of money by failing to look outside the box for players like Rayan, Marcus Tavernier and Evanilson. United may not have the wealth they previously showed in the transfer market but Bournemouth are showing what can be done within a budget and, more importantly, will be able to make a profit on signings. United, however, only know losses as everyone’s price tag diminishes the moment they come through the Old Trafford door. Jason Wilcox and others can point to certain factors that are against them but there are quality signings to be made at the right price if you have the ability to find them. Will Unwin Match report: Manchester United 0-3 Bournemouth Will Unwin: Carrick left carrying can for institutional failings Match report: Aston Villa 2-1 Manchester City Match report: Liverpool 2-0 Brighton Match report: Chelsea 0-2 Tottenham Barney Ronay: Glitch in Chelsea’s coding costs Alonso while resurgent Spurs are all systems go Continue reading...

While Gotham could have clinched the franchise’s first NWSL Shield on Sunday, the club didn’t entirely get all the help it needed to do so.

Venezia FC, a historically modest club, has become a fashion sensation. But its performance has struggled to match the off-field hype.

Thirteen years later, José Mourinho led Real Madrid into the Camp Nou as one team and them out again as another having secured the kind of late victory he loves and which opens up a whole new world. With just three minutes and the final reserves of energy remaining, a wonderful moment of skill from Jude Bellingham found Eduardo Camavinga and set them on one last run. Camavinga sprinted free, skilfully slipped Pau Cubarsí and pulled back for Kylian Mbappé to provide the finish, a little bit of history written. “The world that loves football will have stopped to watch this and they won’t have gone disappointed; this was two teams that played to win,” Mourinho said. It had been an intense, breathless ride, a proper battle, and it was his team who won it. Arriving right on time, Mbappé scored his second to make it 2-1, the Camp Nou falling quiet and their team given no time to react. They had drawn level after Mbappé’s opener, Raphinha scoring, but could not do it again. Continue reading...

La Liga updates, kick-off 8pm (GMT) Live scoreboard | And you can email Niall Richard Hirst asks: “Can we add this to Peter’s bingo card? … Points out he’s only been the manager for 35 seconds.” A fair shout. Peter Oh has prepared a José Mourinho bingo card for tonight’s game … Continue reading...

Live Premier League updates from 4.30pm BST Europe more curse than blessing for Sunderland Sign up for Football Daily 1 min Peep peep! Leeds, in their yellow change strip, kick off from left to right as we watch. Prokofiev is on the tannoy at the Stadium of Light , which means the teams are about to take the field. Continue reading...

Brighton’s impressive run was blown off course at Anfield where Liverpool performed with an appetite and urgency at both ends of the pitch that showed Andoni Iraola’s methods taking root. It was Liverpool, deserving winners on home soil for the first time in the Premier League this season, who looked upwardly mobile. There was more evidence of the expensive trio of Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak and Bradley Barcola feeling at home and adapting to Iraola’s demands. Wirtz was instrumental in an opening goal officially credited to Brighton’s Pascal Gross and Isak scored for the sixth time in six Premier League appearances to shatter the visitors’ sequence of four successive league wins. The sight of Barcola sprinting back to help his defence and Ronald Araújo smashing into challenges, as Liverpool stubbornly defended their lead and their box in the second half, satisfied Iraola just as much as his side’s incisiveness before the break. Continue reading...

⚽️ Premier League updates from 2pm GMT ⚽️ Live scoreboard | Send Daniel an email Daniel Otherwise, Carrick goes for ballast in the midfield, with Andrey Santos and Carlos Baleba, which makes sense, but in front of him, there’s a palpable lack of magic. Matheus Cunha, hooked at half-time in Como, drops out, with Amad one of the least dreadful when he came on, coming in on the right. His numbers tell us he’s not the standard required, but he offers good out-of-possession work and gives the team balance, such as it is, the only dribbles in a team severely lacking one v one ability. Otherwise, Mason Mount, every manager’s favourite, is relocated to the left, while Bryan Mbeumo continues up front in the absence of Benjamin Sesko – which tells us plenty about what Carrick thinks of Joshua Zirkzee, despite his goal in midweek. Continue reading...

⚽️ News before the 2pm GMT Premier League fixtures ⚽️ How they stand | Fixtures | Mail John Aintree Racecourse has confirmed today’s race meeting has been cancelled due to high winds. Will that mean Liverpool v Brighton is called off? The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for wind in Liverpool and Merseyside due to Storm Boelo, which remains active through today until 9:00 PM on Sunday, October 25, 2026 Continue reading...

The Argentine has found a different stage on which to make history over the past three months and is once again leaving his mark on America's top soccer league.