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Yahoo
2 days ago
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🔴 LIVE: USA, Mexico, Canada in action; CONMEBOL WC Qualifiers underway
We have a feast of football up and down the Americas this evening. While the big boys in Concacaf are in friendly action ahead of the upcoming Gold Cup, World Cup Qualifiers in CONMEBOL are also underway. Advertisement As ever, check back with us throughout the evening. Key Fixtures 2025-06-11T00:31:09Z 🎥 Luis Díaz has given Colombia the lead away to Argentina and it was a sensational solo goal! 2025-06-11T00:22:46Z The U.S. go behind early as Switzerland waste no time bagging the opener in Nashville! 2025-06-11T00:13:07Z Uruguay have doubled their lead in the second-half against Venezuela. A win could see Uruguay jump up into third place this evening. 2025-06-11T00:07:01Z The ball is rolling in Argentina vs Colombia on a night when Leo Messi returned to the starting lineup. 2025-06-10T23:49:14Z Uruguay have bagged the lead late in the first half against Venezuela! 2025-06-10T23:48:38Z Advertisement 📝 Team news as Mexico take on Türkiye! 2025-06-10T23:30:46Z 📝 Team news from Canada vs The Ivory Coast! 2025-06-10T23:20:09Z 📝 Team news from Argentina vs Colombia! 2025-06-10T23:19:21Z Scoreless in the early minutes between Uruguay and Venezuela. 2025-06-10T23:13:17Z Almost that time... 2025-06-10T23:12:53Z History made by the Aaronson brothers! 2025-06-10T22:58:12Z In case you missed it; Chilean woes continue! 2025-06-10T22:56:48Z 📝 Team news is out around a few of the grounds. We'll start with the Stars and Stripes.
Yahoo
2 days ago
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🇦🇷 "Leo will start": Scaloni confirms Messi in the line-up
With their ticket to the 2026 World Cup already secured, Argentina wants to keep building momentum ahead of the global tournament. And tomorrow, Tuesday's match against Colombia is an opportunity to do just that. A match in which Leo Messi will be in the starting lineup. "Tomorrow Leo will start. We hope the fans enjoy him and the team,' said Lionel Scaloni emphatically in the pre-match press conference. The Argentine coach wants to keep building momentum ahead of the event in North America. And he still doesn't have a fixed squad list. Advertisement "There's no point in thinking about the squad list a year before the World Cup. Nothing is ruled out, because there could be many surprises. I think the best thing is to wait until the end and decide then," commented the man from Pujato. With the starting eleven for tomorrow almost confirmed, there's only one doubt: who will take the left-back position? Scaloni is clear about it. "It's between Facu Medina and Valentín Barco. Based on the work these two players have done, it will be between them." This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. 📸 Marcelo Endelli - 2025 Getty Images
The Guardian
05-03-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Fifa to hand out $1bn prize pot at expanded Club World Cup
Fifa are to distribute $1bn (£775m) in prize money as part of the expanded Club World Cup this summer, with a target of $250m to go to clubs not taking part in the competition. The size of the prize fund is likely turn heads across the game. Some estimates suggest the winning club in the 32 team tournament could take home as much as $100m (£77.5m); this would be equivalent to winning the Uefa Champions League, but after playing only six matches. Speculation over the size of Fifa's prize pot has persisted since the organisers launched the tournament as a new and controversial fixture in the international calendar. Fifa subsequently announced a $1bn broadcast deal with Dazn last year, with the streamer earning exclusive rights to all matches over the four-week tournament. European teams will form the largest contingent at the Club World Cup with 12 sides set to take part. Fifa are understood to have committed to keeping all revenues from the tournament inside the club game. Operational costs are included as part of the expenditure, but solidarity payments to clubs who did not earn an invitation to the tournament will also be part of the picture. The final sum of any solidarity fund is to be determined later once the revenues generated by the tournament have been confirmed, but the target is to share a quarter of a billion dollars. Manchester City and Chelsea will represent the Premier League in the tournament, with 16 continental champions from the last four seasons all earning an invitation. A further 15 places – awarded to clubs such as Bayern Munich and Boca Juniors – were determined by positions in individual confederations' club rankings. A final 'host nation slot' was given to Leo Messi's Inter Miami. The Club World Cup is scheduled to kick off on 14 June and will be played in 11 cities across the United States. The final is to be played at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, a 93,000-capacity venue home to NFL teams the New York Giants and New York Jets.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lionel Messi speaks out on future amid Barcelona return links
Former Barcelona star Lionel Messi has on Friday spoken out on his immediate plans for the future. The name of Argentine icon Messi has of course returned to the forefront of the headlines in Catalunya's capital across the week to date. This comes after journalist Alex Candal – who broke the news regarding the attacker's plans to sign with Inter Miami – dropped the bombshell that Messi has set his sights on a return to Barcelona: 'Who was the first one to say that Leo Messi was joining Inter Miami? Me… or not? And now I'm telling you: He's coming back to Barcelona.' ¿MESSI DE REGRESO EN EL BARÇA? 🚨🔵🔴 @Alex_candal adelantó que el astro argentino regresaría a Barcelona en un futuro cercano.🎙️ "Palabras de Lio Messi: 'No puedo dejar el fútbol sin antes jugar en el nuevo Camp Nou'".#FútbolTotal — DSPORTS (@DSports) February 24, 2025 Speaking to the media late this week, it therefore came as little surprise when the subject of Messi's plans beyond the summer were put to the eight-time Ballon d'Or winner himself. This comes ahead of the upcoming expiration of his contract in Miami. Messi, however, was quick to assure that he is yet to come to a decision on his intentions for next season, in explaining: 'My future? I feel good now and I'm just enjoying every moment of my career. I'm enjoying club, games, teammates, family, friends… I'm not anticipating things. I'm just loving and enjoying the moment.' 🚨 Leo Messi: 'My future? I feel good now and I'm just enjoying every moment of my career'.'I'm enjoying club, games, teammates, family, friends… I'm not anticipating things. I'm just loving and enjoying the moment'. — Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) February 28, 2025 Conor Laird – GSFN
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lionel Messi reveals he had ‘hard time adapting' to life at Paris St Germain
Lionel Messi has revealed he was unhappy 'on a daily basis' during his two-year spell at Paris St Germain and is now thriving on and off the pitch in Miami. The 37-year-old eight-time Ballon d'Or winner joined Major League Soccer club Inter Miami, co-owned by David Beckham, from PSG in July 2023 after a troubled period in the French capital. In an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, Messi said: 'Coming to play for Inter Miami was an opportunity and the way things developed during my last years in Paris, although it was a decision that I had to make on the go because I had to leave from Barcelona, I went through two years which I didn't enjoy. Introducing the 2024 Landon Donovan @MLS Most Valuable Player – Leo Messi 🏆 Inspirando a la @InterMiamiAcad dentro y fuera de la cancha ✨ — Inter Miami CF (@InterMiamiCF) December 6, 2024 'I wasn't happy on a daily basis, with the training, the matches. I had a hard time adapting to all that. I felt called to come to Inter because it's a club that's growing, very new, with few years as a club.' Messi, who helped Miami win the 2024 MLS Supporters' Shield before they were knocked out of the play-offs by Atlanta United in a major upset, said his family was also enjoying life in Florida. 'I liked the idea of coming and help the club to become a greater club and I also knew it was a city that my family and I would enjoy,' he said. 'Although I didn't know it so well because I had come only a few times, I knew about it, because I have family and friends that visited and visit this city, and I thought it was the right time, and I don't regret it, quite the opposite.' Leo Messi reflects on life and his career so far with @zanelowe as he starts the journey toward the 2025 @MLS Cup with @InterMiamiCF. Watch the full interview now and catch every match with #MLSSeasonPass on @AppleTV. — Apple Music (@AppleMusic) February 28, 2025 Messi, who won his eighth Ballon d'Or after leading Argentina to glory at the 2022 World Cup, spent 21 years at Barcelona, with whom he won won four Champions Leagues, 10 LaLiga titles and seven Spanish Cups. He is relishing the challenge of helping the MLS become one of the world's top leagues and believes the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, to be held in Miami next June, is 'wonderful'. Messi added: 'I think this is very important for the club, especially, to participate for the first time in a World Cup that will take place in the country and for the MLS to have two teams is a wonderful thing. 'Everything that's happening creates an opportunity for the MLS to keep growing in football, as a league, and for other players to have the opportunity to come and keep growing I think.'
