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BBC News
6 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Scotland 0-1 Austria: What Andreatta said
Scotland boss Melissa Andreatta: "There's one thing to be training and doing what we're doing, players executing what we're asking of them in a training session and it's another thing to do it in a match, particularly one with that context behind it. "I think I have a good baseline now to understand where we're at and some areas to work on to get where we want to be. "We were the better team in many moments in that second half but we all know in international football you have to be doing that consistently. That's what it takes in tournament football to go deep and that's what we want this team to be. "I really believe in this group and what's it's going to take now is a lot of work to continue to find the areas I can help this team to realise their potential and go to another level. The belief isn't down, I'm not shaken by the result, I'm even more passionate about supporting this team to realise their goals. "In the second half I saw more of that ability to break lines, get into good areas in the final third and create chances. That's the positive part and that's something we want to keep building on. "Me as a person, the past is the past now and I'll always look forward, take those learnings and think what we can do next. "That's what I've learned about this group, something we both share is this deep commitment to being the best we can and willing to do whatever it takes to do that. The belief is still there, it's just going to be a lot of hard work."
The Guardian
28-05-2025
- General
- The Guardian
‘Forget what you've done': Bellamy wants Wales players to switch focus to World Cup
Craig Bellamy has said his Wales players must reset and focus on a the World Cup qualifying double-header regardless of whether they finished the season 'on a trampoline or with a ball around their neck'. Brennan Johnson and Ben Davies won the Europa League with Tottenham, while Bellamy's squad for matches against Liechtenstein and Belgium also includes a quartet of Leeds players in Karl Darlow, Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rodon and Daniel James, who recently celebrated promotion to the Premier League. Connor Roberts was also promoted with Burnley, but Bellamy is mindful other players experienced disappointment. The Wales manager said: 'It's a positive [to have winners in the squad]. But when I was at a club, anyone who went away for international football and came back it was: 'Forget about what you've just done. Focus on what we're doing here. Every meeting, every part of football you thought you'd just learned there, forget about it. Get back on track here.' 'It's the same here with international football. You'll have a moment where you can congratulate players and I love them being on a high. But I also have to be responsible for players that perhaps haven't had the season they would have expected. As well as your egos, everything else is forgotten, it's not going to serve you here. 'This is what we do, how we work.' 'You're in a different world, you need to be in our world and they always are. Whether they're coming in on a trampoline or with a ball round their neck, off we go.' Bellamy named a 27-man squad for the qualifiers on Wednesday, with the 18-year-old Cardiff City right-back Ronan Kpakio receiving his first call-up. There is no place for the 18-year-old Manchester United striker Luca Biancheri, who will join Canada's senior squad on Sunday. Biancheri, whose mother is Canadian and father is Italian, has been capped by Wales at Under-19 level and was part of Wales's recent training camp in Spain, but Bellamy had no plans to bring him into his latest squad. Wales are relaxed about the teenager's situation and are happy for him to gain further experience. Wales are without Joe Allen, who retired this month. The 35-year-old reversed his decision to retire from international duty last year, but has stepped away a second time. Wales were staring at a first defeat under Bellamy when Allen's wayward pass allowed North Macedonia to take a stoppage-time lead in Skopje in March until David Brooks's 96th-minute equaliser. 'I knew he was going to retire,' Bellamy said. 'When we conceded, it was like: 'There's no way this is going to be his last touch for us.' Even if I would delay it after we play this one in June, you are not finishing that way.'' Bellamy, who had two spells at Liverpool as a player, said he was shaken by the incident at their title parade on Monday that left 65 people injured. 'It's heartbreaking to go to what should be an incredible moment, the most successful club in England with 20 titles, which was so important,' he said. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion 'I am a Liverpool fan and to see that happen was incredible. I'm probably like everyone else, I'm still trying to absorb it. Maybe I will in the next few weeks, but it is still quite raw for me.'
BBC News
27-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Euro 2022 winner Earps announces shock England retirement
England goalkeeper Mary Earps has retired from international football with immediate made 53 senior appearances over eight years for England, playing a significant role in the Lionesses winning Euro 2022 and reaching the final of the 2023 Women's World the 32-year-old has more recently lost her international place to Hannah Hampton and will now not take part in England's Euro 2025 campaign in Switzerland this summer. More to follow.
Free Malaysia Today
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Free Malaysia Today
Saudi-based Toney recalled to England squad by Tuchel
Ivan Toney earned a surprise recall to the England squad today. (EPA Images pic) LONDON : Ivan Toney today earned a surprise recall to Thomas Tuchel's England squad for internationals against Andorra and Senegal. It is a first call-up for the 29-year-old since he left Brentford to join Saudi Arabian club Al-Ahli last August. Toney made the last of his six England appearances in the Euro 2024 final defeat by Spain. Tuchel has given a first senior call-up to Chelsea's Trevoh Chalobah. England face Andorra in a World Cup qualifier in Barcelona on June 7 before a friendly with Senegal in Nottingham three days later. Squad Goalkeepers: Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace), Jordan Pickford (Everton), James Trafford (Burnley) Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Dan Burn (Newcastle United), Trevoh Chalobah (Chelsea), Levi Colwill (Chelsea), Reece James (Chelsea), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa), Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal), Kyle Walker (AC Milan/ITA) Midfielders: Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid/ESP), Conor Gallagher (Atletico Madrid/ESP), Morgan Gibbs-White (Nottingham Forest), Jordan Henderson (Ajax/NED), Curtis Jones (Liverpool), Cole Palmer (Chelsea), Declan Rice (Arsenal), Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa) Forwards: Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace), Anthony Gordon (Newcastle United), Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Noni Madueke (Chelsea), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Ivan Toney (Al-Ahli/KSA), Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) Witness football history in Malaysia as Manchester United take on the Asean All-Stars – it's the clash you can't afford to miss. Book your seat now at before they're gone!
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
How Phil Foden and his high school sweetheart mum-of-three Rebecca Cooke, 24, have overcome off-the-pitch woes to become football's new power couple – after Iceland hotel room controversy and THAT row on the beach
12 months ago, Phil Foden was on top of the world, scooping the Premier League Player of the Year award having just fired his Manchester City side to a fourth consecutive league title. The then-23-year-old had scored a brace against West Ham on the final day - sticking one in the top corner from 35 yards out - and the world was finally his oyster. The Euros with England. Hopes of another Treble. The rest. Except it didn't work out that way. Foden started every game for England but struggled out in Germany. He would have a slow start to the season with City and endure a campaign light years away from his last. It was all, simply, going wrong. Earlier this season, Foden blamed 'mental fatigue' for his poor form. 'I just need a few weeks off it without playing football and obviously I can't get it at the moment,' he said. 'It's a difficult situation for me with the internationals right around the corner. 'It's something we have to speak with the club and national team to see maybe if it's better to rest and get my ankle fully 100 per cent to back how I want it. 'I just don't know at the moment, it's a conversation to be had and we'll see what happens.' Now, he has his wish. Foden has been left out Thomas Tuchel's second England squad on the back of fatigue and an ankle injury and will be able to enjoy some time off before the Club World Cup with City next month. That could mean more time at home with his family. Still only 24, Foden has three children - a son born in 2019, a daughter born in 2021 and another child born during Euro 2024. His long-term girlfriend Rebecca Cooke, is regarded as 'the ultimate WAG'. Cooke stepped out with Foden for a team dinner earlier this week, with the Stockport native joining Foden's team-mates for City great Kevin De Bruyne's leaving party in Manchester. Dressed in all-black, Rebecca picked a plunging, sleeveless jumpsuit that showed off her cleavage, toned midriff and golden tan, as Rebecca also wore a big smile while posing for pictures with her footballer boyfriend. Their most recent appearance came after the couple sparked engagement rumours when Rebecca was spotted wearing a large diamond ring on her ring finger in February. At the time, it was reported that the Premier League star whisked Rebecca away on a romantic trip to Paris for New Year's Eve, where he reportedly proposed. In photos, Rebecca - who has been with Phil since they were both teenagers - was seen trying to conceal the large ring while out and about. Nothing, though, has been confirmed - and it's not always been rosy. The couple have three children together and do not shy away from dressing up to head out In 2022, Foden had a bust-up with Cooke on a beach after she looked at his phone. Cooke shouted: 'Do you think I'm a d***head?' before leaving the beach club in Corfu, adding: 'We can't take you anywhere, this always happens.' Video showed Rebecca yelling at Foden as the pair follow two bouncers up steps to a club at Glyfada Beach and jabbed her thumb at the winger. A holiday maker said: 'I think it was to do with other women. What it looked like was he was refusing photos, but when women came up to him it was different.' It wasn't the first time he has been involved in a public spat, either. In 2022, Foden's mum, Claire Rowlands, appeared to get punched after she and her son were verbally abused in a corridor at Manchester's AO Arena at a boxing event headlined by Amir Khan and Kell Brook. In January 2024, meanwhile, Rowlands was kicked out of a nightclub and put in handcuffs after knocking a hat from a fellow partygoer's head. The footballer's mum had been enjoying a night out with friends and ended up downing shots of vodka and tequila before showing off her 'party trick' of flicking a man's hat off, Llandudno magistrates' court was told. It all came to a head earlier this year when Rowlands was targeted by Manchester United fans, with sections of supporters chanting that Rowlands is a 's**g'. But within her family she is the nurturing pillar of strength for football star Foden and his four siblings Callum, Kenzi, Lois and Avayah, who were raised together on a Greater Manchester council estate. Now, Foden is living it large, having recently moving out of a £3million mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire, after a raucous party led to the police being called. Foden also attracted the wrong type of headlines in 2020 when he, alongside Mason Greenwood, invited girls into the England team hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland. The pair made arrangements with an Icelandic model and her friend to come to the official team hotel, which was under strict quarantine rules. Foden and Greenwood were immediately ejected from the England squad as a result by manager Gareth Southgate, and Lara Clausen told Mail Online that she slept with the midfielder only hours after he made his debut for the Three Lions against Iceland, without knowing about his girlfriend and young son. When all is said and done, though, £200,000 a week and a family that loves you isn't too bad. A trip to Barcelona to play Andorra and a home friendly against Senegal aren't exactly the be all and end all. A Foden on fire is what is best for him, Manchester City and England. This season, he has been so far away from the flames. But resting the mind, it seems, is just as important as resting the body. Foden will always have homes in the City and England teams if he wants them. It would help him if he played well - and the rest could be the trigger for him to do just that.
