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Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Business
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Corpay Cross-Border Named an Official Partner of Real Madrid C.F.
Providing access to currency risk management and cross-border payments solutions TORONTO, June 02, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corpay, Inc.*, (NYSE: CPAY) a global leader in corporate payments, is pleased to announce that Corpay's Cross-Border business has entered into an agreement with Real Madrid C.F. to become an Official Partner. Through this partnership, Real Madrid will be able to gain access to and utilise Corpay Cross Border's innovative solutions to help mitigate foreign exchange exposure from their day-to-day business needs. "The Corpay Cross-Border team is elated to be named an Official Partner of Real Madrid, one of the world's most widely recognized and followed sports franchises," said Brad Loder, Chief Marketing Officer, Corpay Cross-Border Solutions. "With our strong focus on growing the Corpay brand, as well as our currency risk management business, we are excited to partner with one of the most successful football clubs in the world." About CorpayCorpay, Inc. (NYSE: CPAY) is a global S&P500 corporate payments company that helps businesses and consumers pay expenses in a simple, controlled manner. Corpay's suite of modern payment solutions help its customers better manage vehicle-related expenses (such as fueling and parking), travel expenses (e.g. hotel bookings) and payables (e.g. paying vendors). This results in our customers saving time and ultimately spending less. Corpay Cross-Border refers to a group of legal entities owned and operated by Corpay, Inc. Corpay – Payments made easy. To learn more visit About Real Madrid Madrid C.F. is a sport entity with 123 years of history. It is the club with the most European Cups of both football (15) and basketball (11) and was awarded by FIFA as the Best Club of the twentieth century. Real Madrid has millions of fans in all corners of the world, with more than 620 million followers on social media, being the strongest football brand in the world according to Brand Finance for the third year in a row and also the highest earning football club in the world in the 23-24 season (Football Money League by Deloitte). More information about Real Madrid C.F. is available at the most visited football club website for the seventh consecutive year. *"Corpay" in this document primarily refers to the Cross-Border Division of Corpay, Inc. a full listing of the companies that are part of Corpay Cross-Border is available here: ** Subject to credit and compliance approval from the relevant Corpay company. View source version on Contacts Corpay Cross-Border Solutions Contact: Brad LoderChief Marketing Officer+1 (647)
Business Wire
3 hours ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Corpay Cross-Border Named an Official Partner of Real Madrid C.F.
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corpay, Inc.*, (NYSE: CPAY) a global leader in corporate payments, is pleased to announce that Corpay's Cross-Border business has entered into an agreement with Real Madrid C.F. to become an Official Partner. Through this partnership, Real Madrid will be able to gain access to and utilise Corpay Cross Border's innovative solutions to help mitigate foreign exchange exposure from their day-to-day business needs. "The Corpay Cross-Border team is elated to be named an Official Partner of Real Madrid, one of the world's most widely recognized and followed sports franchises," said Brad Loder, Chief Marketing Officer, Corpay Cross-Border Solutions. 'With our strong focus on growing the Corpay brand, as well as our currency risk management business, we are excited to partner with one of the most successful football clubs in the world.' About Corpay Corpay, Inc. (NYSE: CPAY) is a global S&P500 corporate payments company that helps businesses and consumers pay expenses in a simple, controlled manner. Corpay's suite of modern payment solutions help its customers better manage vehicle-related expenses (such as fueling and parking), travel expenses (e.g. hotel bookings) and payables (e.g. paying vendors). This results in our customers saving time and ultimately spending less. Corpay Cross-Border refers to a group of legal entities owned and operated by Corpay, Inc. Corpay – Payments made easy. To learn more visit About Real Madrid C.F. Real Madrid C.F. is a sport entity with 123 years of history. It is the club with the most European Cups of both football (15) and basketball (11) and was awarded by FIFA as the Best Club of the twentieth century. Real Madrid has millions of fans in all corners of the world, with more than 620 million followers on social media, being the strongest football brand in the world according to Brand Finance for the third year in a row and also the highest earning football club in the world in the 23-24 season (Football Money League by Deloitte). More information about Real Madrid C.F. is available at the most visited football club website for the seventh consecutive year. *'Corpay' in this document primarily refers to the Cross-Border Division of Corpay, Inc. a full listing of the companies that are part of Corpay Cross-Border is available here: ** Subject to credit and compliance approval from the relevant Corpay company.
Nahar Net
6 days ago
- Sport
- Nahar Net
Football unites in support for Liverpool after car plows into celebrating fans
by Naharnet Newsdesk 8 hours Football clubs, players and the sport's governing bodies expressed sympathy and support to Liverpool on Monday after a man plowed a car into a crowd of the team's fans who were celebrating its Premier League title success in the city center. Twenty-seven people — including four children — were taken to the hospital, with two sustaining serious injuries, emergency services said. Another 20 people were treated at the scene. Football united behind Liverpool, the most decorated men's football team in England and a world-famous brand, in an outpouring of messages over social media — including from the club's biggest rivals. "Our thoughts are with Liverpool FC and the city of Liverpool after today's awful incident," Manchester United, historically Liverpool's fiercest opponent, posted on X. There were similar sentiments from Everton, Liverpool's neighbor on Merseyside, which said: "Our thoughts are with all those who have been affected by this serious incident in our city." The Premier League expressed its shock at the "appalling events" that took place at the end of the team's trophy parade that was attended by hundreds of thousands of scarf-and-flag-waving Liverpool fans. "We have been in contact with Liverpool FC and have offered our full support following this serious incident," the league said. On behalf of the sport's world governing body, FIFA President Gianni Infantino offered thoughts and prayers to everyone affected. " Football stands together with Liverpool FC and all fans of the club following the horrific incident," he said in a post on X. For all its trophies — including a record-tying 20 English top-flight titles and six European Cups — and success, Liverpool is also a club synonymous with tragedy and distress after being involved in deadly stadium disasters at Heysel and Hillsborough in the 1980s. Liverpool's club anthem — "You'll Never Walk Alone" — was referenced by Kenny Dalglish, its former player and manager, in a post on social media. "Shocked, horrified and deeply saddened about what happened at the end of the parade today," Dalglish wrote. "Our anthem," he added, "has never felt more appropriate, You'll Never Walk Alone. Your Liverpool family are behind you." Jamie Carragher, another former player and now a leading TV commentator, posted on X: "Devastating end to the day………just pray everyone is ok." A 53-year-old white British man has been arrested. He was believed to be the only one involved in the incident and it was not being investigated as an act of terrorism, police said.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Carlo Ancelotti bows out at Real Madrid: ‘I don't regret a thing. I've had a good time'
Sometimes things don't go the way they were planned, they go better. The call that ended with Carlo Ancelotti back at Real Madrid started as something completely different. It was August 2021, he was manager at Everton and he had phoned to ask Madrid's chief executive, José Ángel Sánchez, about borrowing players, but talk turned to their search for a coach. Zinedine Zidane had walked out again, dropping a letter bomb on the way, and Ancelotti wondered whether they had found anyone yet. Madrid were struggling and Sánchez said no, they were still looking. Which is when the Italian replied that they needed the best and luckily they were already talking to him. 'Or have you forgotten about 2014?' he said. It was classic Carlo. Gently done, an idea cleverly slipped in as if it were not an idea at all, just a throwaway line, another true word said in jest. And like so much of what he does, it worked wonderfully. In 2014, Madrid's 12-year wait for the European Cup, an obsession that had come to feel eternal, finally ended. The coach who delivered the decima – their 10th and their everything – was him and frankly, yes, he had been a bit forgotten. Now, though, he is for ever. Related: Carlo Ancelotti and the vibes of Brazil: a match made in football heaven? That day, Ancelotti and Sánchez laughed, chatted a bit more, an idea taking shape, and hung up. Not long after, the phone rang again: the president says OK. Two days later, it was done, Ancelotti back in the Valdebebas press room. 'No one's changed these five years,' he said. 'The only thing that changes at Madrid are the coaches.' The situation was not easy, but by the end of the season, they had another Champions League and the league title. Two years on, they had another of each. When Ancelotti walks on to the Bernabéu turf for the last time on Saturday afternoon, he will be accompanied by the 15 trophies he won there. No coach ever lifted more. This, the last of his six seasons, hasn't been a good year. In fact, it has been terrible. It has not been Ancelotti's only bad campaign – 2023 didn't end well – and he knows criticism always lingers. The end has been strange too: it is two years since he first thought he was going to Brazil, imagining the club axe would fall, and two weeks since Brazil announced that this time he actually is, yet there has been silence from Madrid. He always said he wouldn't end it, they would. That he will be replaced by Xabi Alonso is left unsaid, an open secret and, some dare to imagine, an upgrade. But how to upgrade on this? On more European Cups than anyone, the man who won the league in five countries. Ancelotti departs as the most successful coach at the most successful club – and does so for the most successful country. 'The gospel according to Ancelotti should be obligatory,' Jorge Valdano wrote last week. 'The future will be kind to him, when he visits the Bernabéu again and is applauded as the legend he is. But the present is hard to digest; today he is on a tightrope, managing a decline while the next coach emerges, ready to rebuild the team with new signings.' Although Ancelotti will visit again – Madrid is the city he has made his home and where he intends to retire – he will not need to wait for applause and recognition. It will be there at his farewell now. There is too much fondness for it to be otherwise, too much gratitude for all he has done. 'I never thought I would coach Real Madrid for six years; we've had a good time,' he said. They have had the time of their lives. Above all, there is appreciation for the way he has done it, the way he is. 'I used to have a coach that said: 'Coaching would be the best job in the world … if there weren't any games,'' Ancelotti has said. 'Defeat is suffering. Victory is … happiness? No. Unfortunately, that's not true. It's a relief. For a few days, you're calmer. But then suffering is part of your work, what keeps you alive: the pressure, the stress.' He admits there is a moment before each game where the heart rate increases and the sweats start, and yet it so rarely shows; instead there's a charm, the warmth, the decency. The cool, too, You're not supposed to last this long here, or make the living this easy; to be so likable, rising so easily above all the pressure and the pricks. Think how many press conferences he has had to do – at 352 games, 700-plus – and how rarely he has said anything out of place, how few fires have been started, without becoming an automaton. He is the way he is and accepts this is the way Madrid is too; understanding that is part of his success, management upwards as well as downwards a key component for a coach who has had quite the catalogue of presidents, owners and oligarchs, practiced in the art of realpolitik. 'There has never been a problem with Madrid and there never will be,' he said. When Ancelotti was sacked at the end of his first spell in 2015 the president, Florentino Pérez – back in the days when he was still the public spokesman for the decisions he takes – was asked why. 'I don't know,' he replied. Yet Ancelotti accepted his fate as football: 'I would like to stay but I know how things are.' Parma, Bayern Munich and Napoli sacked him; Juventus did it at half-time with the league still in play, Chelsea within a year of winning the Double; now Madrid did it less than 12 months after the decima. So he came back and did it all over again. Now he's departing once more, ready to go and handed a proper farewell this time. 'I can't be Real Madrid coach my whole life,' he said. 'Maybe the club needs a new impulse. [Going] is normal, there's no need to make a drama of it.' Like he makes a drama of anything. Of course a part of him had wanted to tell a few truths in 2015 but he never did. At that first press conference upon returning, he was asked about Zidane's open letter referencing interference and a lack of support from a president who never truly believes in his coaches; Ancelotti's response amounted to wondering whether Zidane had not realised where he was. And whatever else it is, it's Real Madrid. Ancelotti didn't always like everything that happened around him, but he never lost sight of that. Life was good: he lived in the centre of a city he loved, right by the Retiro. He ate well. He had his grandkids close, son Davide working with him. And at the weekends he coached the biggest team on Earth. He won too, and fast. Twelve months from his return, he lifted another European Cup – the wildest, most memorable of all. After the 2022 Chelsea semi-final, Ancelotti said: 'If I didn't die today, I'm immortal.' They won the league too, Ancelotti's first here to go with titles at Milan, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern; Madrid hadn't wrapped up a league so early in 32 years. Related: Xabi Alonso poised for Real Madrid job after club confirm Carlo Ancelotti's exit By next spring, there were doubts again, familiar accusations: this was off the cuff, no planning, no grand design, no ideology. Ancelotti was no philosopher, no master tactician, good only at handling players – only, as if that was easy – who he just allowed to get on with it. They said he was too nice, which he knew they would, aware that 'good man-manager' often comes as a backhanded compliment, that some have pointed at his players, the clubs he coached, and suggested: well, of course. 'There are two types of managers: those that do nothing and that do damage,' he said. After revealing one day that there were moments when Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Casemiro did things he hadn't asked them to do, he joked: 'Madrid fans can rest easy: I'm not going to interfere.' That too was classic Ancelotti, his refusal to make it about him part of what makes him successful. Yet nothing is not the word for what he has done. He has quietly got on with seeking solutions; think Ángel Di María in midfield, Jude Bellingham up front, the departures of Raphaël Varane and Sergio Ramos overcome, new formations found, no one else blamed even when they should be. Last week Ancelotti insisted: 'the club signed Camavinga, Rüdiger, Tchouaméni, Bellingham, Mbappé … could I ask for more? No.' Actually, he had, alerting to flaws in the squad that were ignored, but he wouldn't say so publicly, wouldn't make excuses or seek reproach. Occasionally, very occasionally, he would remind people of his work, though. The remarkable thing was that he even had to. 'Everyone recognises that I'm 'fantastic' in man-management, but there are other things,' he said at the end of one press conference in April 2023, pausing for effect as he delivered his defence, staccato. 'This. Team. Is. Well. Worked. If we have the good fortune to win the Copa del Rey, this team will have won every trophy possible in two years. Some teams don't win that in a lifetime.' It had been done smoothly, a little mischief in his eye, left brow raised more than his voice, but pointedly too, and Madrid did win the Copa del Rey. While Barcelona ran away with the league and Manchester City took them apart in Europe, seemingly hastening the end of an era, the club's institutional director refusing to confirm the coach's job was safe that night, Ancelotti did stay and a year on they had won the league and Champions League double again. The greatest era in the club's modern history was complete, six Champions Leagues won in 11 years that opened with Ancelotti and closed with him. Maybe being nice is not so bad. 'I prefer to listen than to talk sometimes,' he said, a simple phrase that encapsulates him, an underrated quality easily overlooked. Here was not just a footballing philosophy from the coach who won Madrid's 10th, 14th and 15th European Cups, but a lesson for life: 'Whenever there are problems people talk about my 'left hand' [the soft touch]. It happened in my first spell at Madrid. 'Too much left hand.' In my life, no one used their 'right hand' on me: not my dad, my teachers, my coaches … clubs would tell me to crack the whip. I can't. Sign another coach if that's how you think it should be. I don't. Cracking the whip is nonsense. It's not a relationship with footballers; it's a relationship with people who play football, on the same level: it's fundamental to be respectful and be respected. That's the way it has always been here.' It is Carletto's way, and it has worked. 'When I started coaching I never imagined I would be at Madrid for six years,' he said, but it was time to go. Brazil were waiting and the man who had to remind Madrid that he was still there, a second, golden chance for everyone slipped into a conversation about something else, was happy with what lay ahead and what he left behind a decade after the decima. 'If someone had said we could win 11 trophies in four years, I would have signed up for that in blood. This year wasn't good but the period has been unforgettable. I don't regret a thing. I've had a good time, I think everyone has, but everything comes to a close. Football, like life, is an adventure that ends one day.'
Nahar Net
6 days ago
- Sport
- Nahar Net
Football unites in support for Liverpool after car plows into celebrating fans
by Naharnet Newsdesk 27 May 2025, 15:10 Football clubs, players and the sport's governing bodies expressed sympathy and support to Liverpool on Monday after a man plowed a car into a crowd of the team's fans who were celebrating its Premier League title success in the city center. Twenty-seven people — including four children — were taken to the hospital, with two sustaining serious injuries, emergency services said. Another 20 people were treated at the scene. Football united behind Liverpool, the most decorated men's football team in England and a world-famous brand, in an outpouring of messages over social media — including from the club's biggest rivals. "Our thoughts are with Liverpool FC and the city of Liverpool after today's awful incident," Manchester United, historically Liverpool's fiercest opponent, posted on X. There were similar sentiments from Everton, Liverpool's neighbor on Merseyside, which said: "Our thoughts are with all those who have been affected by this serious incident in our city." The Premier League expressed its shock at the "appalling events" that took place at the end of the team's trophy parade that was attended by hundreds of thousands of scarf-and-flag-waving Liverpool fans. "We have been in contact with Liverpool FC and have offered our full support following this serious incident," the league said. On behalf of the sport's world governing body, FIFA President Gianni Infantino offered thoughts and prayers to everyone affected. " Football stands together with Liverpool FC and all fans of the club following the horrific incident," he said in a post on X. For all its trophies — including a record-tying 20 English top-flight titles and six European Cups — and success, Liverpool is also a club synonymous with tragedy and distress after being involved in deadly stadium disasters at Heysel and Hillsborough in the 1980s. Liverpool's club anthem — "You'll Never Walk Alone" — was referenced by Kenny Dalglish, its former player and manager, in a post on social media. "Shocked, horrified and deeply saddened about what happened at the end of the parade today," Dalglish wrote. "Our anthem," he added, "has never felt more appropriate, You'll Never Walk Alone. Your Liverpool family are behind you." Jamie Carragher, another former player and now a leading TV commentator, posted on X: "Devastating end to the day………just pray everyone is ok." A 53-year-old white British man has been arrested. He was believed to be the only one involved in the incident and it was not being investigated as an act of terrorism, police said.
