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A sarcastic comment from a veteran referee New footage from the Barcelona versus Real Betis match has reopened the controversy surrounding Giovani Lo Celso's disallowed goal, revealing details of the exchange between the referee and the Catalan side's players during the review.

A sarcastic comment from a veteran referee New footage from Barcelona's clash with Real Betis has reopened the debate over Giovani Lo Celso's disallowed goal.

Ghana forward Andre Ayew has revisited one of the most painful moments in the country’s football history, insisting that Luis Suarez’s infam...

HOUSTON — Petar Musa converted a penalty kick in the 11th minute of second-half stoppage time Saturday night, and the goal gave FC Dallas a 2-2 draw with the Houston Dynamo at Shell Energy Stadium.

[Namibian] Lazio scored a statement win on Sunday, brushing aside Juventus 3-0 in Turin to move level on points with Inter Milan at the top of Serie A.

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has clarified that it has no direct involvement in the selection process for the next head coach of the senior national team, the Black Stars, insisting that the committee tasked with the recruitment process has the competence to carry out...

Decisive moments behind the scenes In-stadium audio technology has laid bare the exchange between Pedri, the Barcelona players and referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea during the review of Cucho Hernández's handball, which ended with Giovani Lo Celso's goal being chalked off in the Catalan side's 5-2 win over Real Betis.

Former NC State football coach Chuck Amato, the only alum to lead the program in more than 100 years, died on Monday after a long bout with throat cancer. He was 80.

The 19-year-old scored a cracker in Seville, days after his ‘almost rabona’ at Galatasaray, as La Liga leaders beat Real Betis When at last it was time for Lamine Yamal to leave, the 19-year-old’s number going up before the 90th minute for only the second time since the opening day, Real Betis fans whistled him all the way to the touchline where Barcelona’s coach was waiting. His work here done, Hansi Flick invited him to take the weight off his feet and his shoulders, not that he wanted to. First, though, he took Lamine Yamal’s head in his hands and, leaning in away from the amateur lip readers, tried to make himself heard over the noise. “I told him I was proud of him because he played a fantastic game,” he said. At least he could think of something. When Lamine Yamal had opened the scoring just nine minutes into the match that was supposed to find out how good Barcelona really were, it hadn’t been easy. Nothing erudite, anyway. On the morning that Barcelona went to Betis – first versus third, a proper opponent at last – Jorge Valdano had lamented that sometimes he doesn’t have the words, and he always has the words. Valdano had just watched Lamine do that, whatever that was, in Istanbul – an “almost rabona,” the kid called it – and now he had a problem. “If he keeps doing strange things, we’re not going to be able to explain it,” he wrote. Continue reading...

USMNT weekend roundup: Heating up in France

MURFREESBORO — The UNC Pembroke soccer team faced a three-goal deficit heading into halftime, but exploded for four goals in the second half to take a massive 4-3 divisional win over Chowan in Conference Carolinas action Saturday evening at the CU Soccer Complex.

Yamal and Kylian Mbappé’s individual heroics have gone around the world, but other, less talked-about goals are well worth a look too. Here’s a roundup of the bangers you might have missed around...