Former Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Ricardo Teixeira has been banned from football for life and fined one million Swiss francs by FIFA.
Teixeira, a former FIFA executive committee member and once the son-in-law of ex-president Joao Havelange, was found guilty of bribery by world football s governing body.
FIFA s ethics committee had been investigating the 72-year-old Teixeira over allegations he was involved in bribery schemes, conducted during the 2006-2012 period, in relation to his role in awarding contracts to companies for the media and marketing rights to CBF, CONMEBOL and CONCACAF competitions .
In a statement released on Friday, FIFA said: In its decision, the adjudicatory chamber found that Mr Teixeira had breached art. 27 (bribery) o…
Kylian Mbappe inspired 10-man Paris St Germain to a 2-0 victory over Le Havre to send them four points clear of Nice at the top of Ligue 1.
PSG found themselves down to 10 men after just 10 minutes when goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was sent off for a high challenge on Josue Casimir.
The visitors went in front in the 23rd minute through Mbappe and while the hosts did their best to find an equaliser, Vitinha scored against the run of play in the 89th minute to seal three points.
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Goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier saved two penalties as Lille claimed a 2-0 win at home to Metz.
The 22-year-old denied Simon Elisor before two goals in first-half stoppage time from Y…
According to a recent report from Sport Bild, German giants Bayern Munich have agreed on a deal to sign Jann-Fiete Arp from Hamburg. The fee is believed to be around £2.2 million, and will see the 19 year old make the move over to Munich in either the upcoming summer or 2020. Arp has been with Hamburg since back in 2010 in their youth setup, and in that time he was able to become the first Bundesliga player that was born in the 2000s.
That achievement aside, though, there’s much more to the teenage sensation than meets the eye. He seems to have a wisdom that goes beyond his years and while he isn’t the most prolific of goalscorers, he’s got the kind of skill that would allow Bayern to nurture him and transform him into a real force to be reckoned with.
Arp first …
Fiorentina captain Davide Astori was found dead in his hotel room at the age of 31 on Sunday.
The tragic news prompted the postponement of all the day s Serie A matches, including Fiorentina s game away to Udinese.
An AC Milan youth product, Astori enjoyed his best years with Cagliari and later in Florence. The defender was also capped 14 times by Italy and scored once for the Azzurri, at the Confederations Cup in Brazil in 2013.
Here, we look at Astori s career from his development in the academy of Italian and European giants Milan to his time leading La Viola.
La Fiorentina profondamente sconvolta si trova costretta a comunicare che e scomparso il suo capitano Davide Astori, colto da improvviso malore.
Per la terribile e delicata situazione, e…
Juventus have held preliminary talks with Antonio Conte about a possible return to Turin, according to Sky Sports.
Following spells with Arezzo, Bari, Atalanta and Siena, Conte spent three years, from the summer of 2011 to the summer of 2014, at Juventus, guiding them to three consecutive Serie A titles. He then spent two years as the Italian national team head coach, before taking over at Chelsea in 2016. He also spent two years at Stamford Bridge and won the 2016/17 Premier League title there. He hasn t worked since receiving his marching orders last summer for missing out on top four, when the London club replaced him with Maurizio Sarri.
As the end of the season approaches, the Italian, who turns 50 this July, has been linked with a possible appointment as the head …
The two most successful sides in the Premier League era do battle again on Sunday as Chelsea host Manchester United.
These two clubs have claimed 18 of the 25 titles since the rebranding of English football s top tier, and some of the game s greatest names have graced this fixture down the years.
Chelsea will, of course, reacquaint themselves with a familiar foe this weekend as Jose Mourinho manager for three of those Premier League triumphs returns to Stamford Bridge, tasked with guiding United back to the heady days of the Alex Ferguson reign.
Reigning champions Chelsea come into Sunday s meeting trailing red-hot leaders Manchester City by nine points while United are four points and two places better off in the chase to catch Pep Guardiola s runaway juggernau…
Antoine Griezmann has been urged to cut his losses and leave Barcelona by former France left-back Bixente Lizarazu.
After joining Barca from Atletico Madrid for €120million in July 2019, Griezmann scored 15 goals in 48 appearances in all competitions last season – his worse return since 2012-13 with Real Sociedad.
The 29-year-old attacker averaged one LaLiga goal every 285 minutes for the Blaugrana, way below his best return of one every 112 minutes for Atletico in 2014-15.
He has been vocal about his frustration at playing on the right wing since Ronald Koeman took over as Barca coach in August and only played eight minutes off the bench in the 3-1 Clasico defeat to Real Madrid on Saturday, having been an unused substitute in the midweek thrash…
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes Manchester United s rapid climb up the Premier League table has shown why the Old Trafford board stuck with him.
United will go top of the standings again if they beat Fulham on Wednesday, in the game that will see the Red Devils reach the 19-game halfway mark in the 2020-21 campaign.
Despite relinquishing top spot to Leicester City after the Foxes beat Chelsea on Tuesday, United have played one fewer game and can go two points clear of Brendan Rodgers men.
The transformation in United s Premier League fortunes has been astounding since early November, with a 3-1 win at Everton coming at a time when Solskjaer was looking on rocky ground.
Although a Champions League exit in December was a jolt, on the domestic front they have…
Andrea Pirlo is not about to call time on Juventus Serie A defence despite fuming at the way they ceded control to Inter in a damaging defeat on Sunday.
Juve are now seven points behind leaders Milan and Inter, and could fall 10 points off the pace if the Rossoneri win on Monday.
The Bianconeri lost 2-0 at Inter, who led through Arturo Vidal s header – one of 11 first-half efforts to Juve s three – and netted again seven minutes after the break as Nicolo Barella ran clear.
The midfield duo were outstanding, with ex-Juve man Vidal gaining possession nine times as well as having four shots, while Barella created the opener for his team-mate and had three key passes, playing a team-high 41 passes in the opposition half.
The Inter pair set a tempo that Ju…
Bayern Munich could be willing to allow Corentin Tolisso to join Paris Saint-Germain, according the German publication Bild.
The midfielder went through the youth ranks at Olympique Lyon, where he earned first-team promotion in 2014. He joined Bayern three years later for a fee reported to have been set at just over €40 million, and has gone on to play 90 games in all competitions for the Bavarians, scoring 17 goals and assisting his teammates on 12 occasions. Primarily a central, box-to-box midfielder, Tolisso is also capable of playing further up as a No.10, or deeper down, protecting the back line.
The 26-year-old s contract expires in 2022, and Bayern apparently wish to avoid history repeating itself with defender David Alaba set to leave this summer for free. The…