SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Juan Mata believes the gap between Manchester United and Real Madrid is not that big and the Spaniard is aiming to prove it by winning the UEFA Super Cup.
Real Madrid have won the Champions League in three of the la…
Stoke have signed Cameroon international Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, the Premier League club have announced.
The winger, 28, pens a three-year contract at the bet365 Stadium, and joins on a free transfer following his release from Bundesl…
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he is "so grateful" to the club's board for signing Bernardo Silva from Monaco this summer.
The midfielder cost a reported £43 million when he became City's first signing of the transfer window in…
Timothy Fosu-Mensah's imminent loan move from Manchester United to Crystal Palace continues the trend of top clubs loaning youngsters to gain experience, and such a practice might also add to a player's market value.
ESPN FC assesses th…
Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho is ready to "fight" for Gareth Bale's signature if Real Madrid leave the attacker out of the UEFA Super Cup.
Bale is part of the 24-man squad in Macedonia for the match between the Champions League a…
Jamie Redknapp believes Virgil van Dijk is "certain to leave" Southampton this summer after handing in a transfer request on Monday.
Speaking on The Debate - Live, a new nightly show on Sky Sports Premier League, Redknapp said it is in …
Sky Sports expert Jamie Carragher says he'll be surprised if Antonio Conte is still at Chelsea in a year's time.
The Italian steered the Blues to the Premier League title in his first season, but has stated he expects the next campaign …
The summer of 2016 was a pretty great place to be if you were an NBA free agent. With the NBA’s new national TV-rights deal kicking in, teams found themselves flush with cash and only too happy to splash it around. As a result, dozens of p…
Antonio Conte expects this season to be his most difficult in management, with the Chelsea boss making his prediction after the club publicly rebuffed "nonsense'' claims over exiled striker Diego Costa.
Costa's future has been a recurri…
From Paris to Marseille, Barcelona to Munich, Istanbul to Shanghai, Rio to Los Angeles, and Sydney to Lagos, the football world spent Friday following the biggest transfer in history: Neymar's move from Barcelona to Paris St-Germain for 22…
Kumasi Asante Kotoko took one point off Accra Hearts of Oak and climbed into fourth place in the Ghana Premier League after coming from behind at the Baba Yara Stadium.
In their first league game since the July 12th accident that killed…
The rush among Brazilian journalists did not go unnoticed by the locals attending a national team training session in Wroclaw, Poland in the autumn of 2012.
Brazil were to face Japan in a friendly the following day and the reporters had…
Justin Gatlin was subjected to boos and jeers from the crowd inside London Stadium as he was presented with his 100m World Championships gold medal.
The American, who has twice served a doping ban, pulled off a shock win on Saturday to …
The Netherlands won their first major women's international tournament after a thrilling victory over Denmark in the Euro 2017 final on home soil.
Denmark led through Nadia Nadim's early penalty but the Dutch soon levelled as Arsenal's …
USA's Tori Bowie stormed to World Championships 100m gold from Marie-Josee Ta Lou and Dafne Schippers as Olympic champion Elaine Thompson was left empty-handed.
A night after American Justin Gatlin shocked Usain Bolt in the men's final,…
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag he will not leave Borussia Dortmund this summer but he remains open to a transfer in the future.
Aubameyang, 28, has been linked with AC Milan, Chelsea, Manchester City…
Michael Essien scored his third goal of the season, helping Persib Bandung to a 3-1 win over PS TNI that moves the troubled team away from the relegation zone in Indonesia's Liga 1.
The former Real Madrid and Chelsea midfielder struck m…
Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois took a spot kick in Chelsea's Community Shield shoot-out defeat to Arsenal because he is one of the club's "best players to take a penalty," according to boss Antonio Conte.
The Premier League champions lost …
Jurgen Klopp insists he is "happy" with his Liverpool centre-backs ahead of the new Premier League season.
Virgil van Dijk was a target for Liverpool earlier this summer, but the Reds withdrew their interest after Southampton complained…
Ronald Koeman says Everton are “close” to completing a deal for Swansea midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson.
The Iceland international has been linked with a move to Goodison Park all summer, with both the Toffees and Leicester having had £40m …
Arsene Wenger has admitted delaying a decision on his Arsenal future may have had a negative impact on the team.
The 67-year-old waited until the end of May to announce his new two-year deal at the club, following Arsenal's fifth-placed…
Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu is eyeing a new challenge after completing his season-long loan switch to Bursaspor from Udinese.
The Turkish side confirmed the deal on their official website on Thursday, and after ending his se…
Most of the NBA players that are in Johannesburg, South Africa for the league’s Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Africa development camp have had a chance to spend some time with the campers and are impressed with the potential they have w…
Getting promoted to the Premier League is one of the toughest tasks and biggest accomplishments in football, but staying there can be just as difficult. Many a promoted side have succumbed to that challenge in their first shot of asking, a…
Jose Mourinho was satisfied with Manchester United's preseason, in which his team won five of their seven games -- another, vs. Real Madrid, ended in a draw, but United won on penalties -- in the U.S., Norway and Ireland. Serious injuries …
In June Masai Ujiri, the Nigerian president of basketball operations at the Toronto Raptors, blew up the American media at large, and the New York media in particular, when his name (unsurprisingly) became a serious part of the conversatio…
Ghana international Frank Acheampong has defended his decision to leave Anderlecht for a move to the Chinese Super League, and has reaffirmed his desire to play in England one day.
Despite being linked with the likes of Liverpool in rec…
DUBLIN -- Jose Mourinho has told Anthony Martial there is a place for him at Manchester United next season.
Martial has been linked with a loan move to Inter Milan as part of a deal for Ivan Perisic to move to Old Trafford.
Mourinho …
Inter Milan are close to making Nice defender Dalbert their first major signing of the summer, but sporting director Piero Ausilio has said his arrival would not mean the departures of Ivan Perisic or Antonio Candreva.
Inter have agreed…
The NBA Africa Game 2017 is the clear focus for all of the players participating in the exhibition game in Johannesburg on Saturday. The players have been heavily involved in the 15th edition of Basketball without Borders Africa and have s…
After the official announcement of his move to Leicester City, Kelechi Iheanacho says he is looking to compatriots Ahmed Musa and Wilfred Ndidi to help him settle in.
20-year-old Iheanacho was confirmed as a Leicester player on Thursday…
Jurgen Klopp is expecting that competition for places in his side will help Liverpool take "the next step" this season.
The Anfield club has brought in Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson and Dominic Solanke so far this summer -- the former a…
Inside adjoining gymnasiums at a suburban private high school here, dozens of teenagers from around Africa have an advantage that few of their American counterparts could even imagine.
They are getting bounce passes, shooting tips and d…
As Liverpool's starting lineup begins to take shape ahead of the new season, there is at least one position that looks to be still up for grabs. Regular right-back Nathaniel Clyne has missed most of preseason with a hamstring problem and e…
PARIS -- Paris Saint-Germain have signed Neymar from Barcelona, smashing the world record for a transfer fee. But instead of universal praise for the move, the Brazil superstar has had his ambition questioned for moving to France; he certa…
FIFA has warned that Benin are facing exclusion from qualifying for the 2019 African Nations Cup unless they pay money owed to sacked former coach Didier Olle-Nicolle, L'Equipe has reported.
Olle-Nicolle, currently coach of French secon…
The newly appointed coach of the Black Princesses Yusif Basigi has invited 30 players to start camping ahead of the 2018 U-20 World Cup qualifying matches. The called up players are expected to report at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excel…
The Community Shield has taken on a greater importance lately. Jose Mourinho referred to Manchester United's collection of three trophies last season, with his team's 2-1 defeat of Leicester City in this fixture counted alongside the Leagu…
British heavyweight Anthony Joshua has been ordered by the WBA to defend his title against Cuba's Luis Ortiz.
The 27-year-old had been due to face Wladimir Klitschko in a rematch, before the Ukrainian retired on Thursday.
The WBA say…
AC Milan are through to the Europa League playoff round after beating Universitatea Craiova 3-0 on aggregate following a 2-0 second-leg win in the third qualifying round on Thursday.
Giacomo Bonaventura and Patrick Cutrone scored either…
With the big Premier League kickoff date fast approaching, Chelsea appear to remain mired in a swamp of supporter negativity borne out of a perceived poor summer transfer window.
The significant roles that recent acquisitions, defender …
Which of the new African players set to compete in the Championship this season could be primed to take the division by storm?
On the eve of the new campaign, KweséESPN profiles five new faces or returning players who we're tipping to m…
Neymar said "an athlete needs challenges" in his farewell address to Barcelona on Thursday, after completing a world-record move to Paris Saint-Germain.
In a video posted on his social media accounts, Neymar read off a statement in Port…
Paris Saint-Germain confirmed the signing of Neymar from Barcelona for a world-record €222 million fee after activating the Brazil international's buyout clause on Thursday.
Neymar, 25, has been the subject of intense speculation all su…
US President Donald Trump is "proud" to support the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, according to a White House statement. "For the first time in a generation, the Olympics is coming back to the United States, and I am proud to support LA 202…
Steven Polack, head Coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko says his team is ready for their super clash against arch rivals Accra Hearts of Oak on Sunday at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium. Speaking at a press conference at the Sports Hall, Kumasi, th…
The 2017 edition of Accra Academy’s homecoming event is set to host an Armwrestling challenge for its old students as part of the annual celebrations on Saturday, August 5, at the school campus.
This fun activity, which would be held at…
Maria Sharapova returned to the courts for the first time since a May hip muscle injury on Monday, beating American Jennifer Brady 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 for a second-round place at the Stanford Classic. "I just want to hug everyone and say thank y…
Mr Obeng Sekyere, Asante Kotoko Regional Circles chairman says they are ready to host Hearts of Oak at the Kumasi Sports Stadium on Sunday.
The Reds would lock horns with their arch rivals in an outstanding league game on Sunday. In an …
Kumasi Asante Kotoko supporters have frowned on the approved ticket rates for the much anticipated super clash between their idol club and Accra Hearts of Oak on Sunday at the Kumasi sports stadium. The match would be the first for Kotoko …