Xherdan Shaqiri is ready to take centre stage for Switzerland once again as he dismissed doubts about his match fitness ahead of Euro 2024.
Shaqiri, who will feature in his seventh major tournament in Germany, will hope to continue his glistening career with his nation as they kickstart their Group A campaign against Hungary on Saturday.
The 32-year-old has scored or assisted 46 percent of Switzerland’s goals at major tournaments over the last 10 years, becoming only the fifth player to reach 100 caps for his country two years ago.
Despite his experience, coach Murat Yakin has questioned Shaqiri s ability to play back-to-back games in the competition, with the forward insisting he has not travelled to Germany to make up the numbers.
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Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has signed a three-year contract extension, the club have confirmed.
Rummenigge has held the position since 2002 and, having agreed to renew his current deal, will remain in the role until December 31, 2019.
The 60-year-old expressed his desire to help Bayern remain at the pinnacle of European football in his prolonged term.
Bayern are in a very good situation in terms of sport as well as finances and have established themselves at the top of European football, Rummenigge said in a statement.
We ll all carry on our work to ensure we continue to be successful at this level.
Bayern are a wonderful club, and I m looking forward to further co-operation with my board colleagues, the supervisory board and…
Caleb Porter believes the New England Revolution are only scratching the surface of their true potential, with several key players back in form ahead of their visit to Real Salt Lake.
The Revs trounced CF Montreal 5-0 on the road last time out in a triumphant return to MLS action after the Leagues Cup break, moving within two points of the Eastern Conference playoff picture.
Former league MVP Carles Gil and winger Dylan Borrero both returned to action in that game after dealing with injury problems, and Porter senses his team have turned a corner at an ideal time.
I don t think it is a coincidence when [Borrero] and Carles left, we were not quite as fluid, Porter said.
We hung in, we hung around, we did it in different ways, we got a few draws and a wi…
New United States boss Mauricio Pochettino has outlined his ambition to win the World Cup with the co-hosts in two years time and is excited by the opportunity.
Pochettino was named the manager of the USA on Tuesday in his first role since parting company with Chelsea in May.
The Argentine, who previously enjoyed a successful five-year spell in charge of Tottenham, leading them to a Champions League final, oversaw a sixth-placed Premier League finish in his only season at Stamford Bridge.
And with the USA acting as hosts alongside Canada and Mexico for football s most prestigious tournament in 2026, Pochettino believes his players should harbour ambitions of winning the entire event.
We need to believe in big things that we can win, not only a game but t…
Ahead of Liverpool s Champions League final victory over Tottenham, Mohamed Salah glanced at a photograph to draw up pain and fuel his already burning desire
I looked at the picture from last year before the game, he said, referring to the Reds 2018 defeat to Real Madrid in Kiev, where a controversial tangle with Sergio Ramos left Salah stricken inside half an hour.
I was very disappointed that I got injured and went off and we lost the game. It was something to motivate me to win. I just looked at it one time and said, Okay, let s go .
Moments later, the back-to-back Premier League Golden Boot winner was dispatching an early penalty and sending Liverpool on their way to a sixth triumph in Europe s top competition.
The bad news for Egypt s rivals at th…
The international window is over, as Premier League football returns this weekend, but the two-week break had supporters reminiscing.
From 2004 to 2016, Barclays was the Premier League s sponsor.
And in a trend that has taken over social media, Barclaysmen have been picked out as players synonymous with that 12-year period.
Here, we take a deep dive into Opta data to find out which players were the actual hallmarks of the Barclays Premier League.
Across the 12 years that Barclays sponsored the Premier League, these were the players to attempt the most shots without scoring:
Aleksey Smertin 61
Dietmar Hamann 60
Karl Henry 56
Doriva 56
Graham Kavanagh 51
Dejan Stefanovic 50
Kyle Naughton 47
Christophe Berra -…
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Former England boss Steve McClaren believes Gareth Southgate will guide the country to Euro 2020 glory ahead of their huge semi-final against Denmark.
McClaren thinks Southgate must be struggling to sleep at night given the array of options he has when trying to select a starting XI for Wednesday s match at Wembley.
But he feels England have everything they need to get over the line at the tournament by beating Denmark and winning the final.
Italy will play either England or Denmark in Sunday s final after beating Spain on penalties in the other semi.
McClaren has been so impressed by what he has seen from England and thinks they have a squad that can technically match any other on the continent.
Physically, we are so strong, powerful, McClaren…
Barcelona are LaLiga champions for the eight time in 11 seasons after completing a 1-0 victory over Levante and there can be no doubt who has been their star man.
Lionel Messi has once again led the way, scoring 34 times – including the decisive strike from off the bench on Saturday – and setting up another 13 in 32 appearances, while also making the difference with numerous late goals.
At the age of 31, the Argentina superstar s role has changed a little and Ernesto Valverde has done his best to afford him rests where possible.
That certainly appears to have aided Messi s productivity. He is thus far averaging a goal every 73.1 minutes, and if that figure were to remain, it would be the second most effective full campaign of his career.
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English Premier League club Chelsea have been fined and hit with a ban on registering players until January 2011 by world football s ruling body FIFA as punishment for their role in a contractual dispute.
The sanction follows a decision by FIFA s Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC), which met on August 27 to rule on a contractual dispute opposing French first division club Lens to French player Gael Kakuta and London giants Chelsea.
The DRC found Kakuta guilty of breach of contract and also found Chelsea guilty of inducing the player to break his contract with the French club, which had lodged a claim with FIFA seeking compensation and demanding sporting sanctions both on the player and Chelsea.
A statement from FIFA said the DRC found that the player had indeed br…
Women’s Super League clubs saw aggregate revenues rise by 60 per cent in a record-breaking 2021-22 season, according to new figures published by Deloitte.
Clubs brought in combined revenues of £32million, up from £20million in the previous season, with the increases driven by new commercial and broadcast deals.
The higher revenues helped clubs bring down their aggregate wages-to-revenue ratio from 92 per cent to 78 per cent despite wages rising to a combined total of £25million, up 37 per cent on the previous campaign.
Clubs made an aggregate pre-tax loss of £14million, according to Deloitte’s Annual Review of Football Finance, which will be released in full on Thursday.
From the start of last season, WSL and Women’s Championship clubs enjoyed t…