Argentina’s Gonzalo Higuaín announced the end of his football career at the end of the season in MLS in the United States on Monday. The 34-year-old has been with Inter Miami since 2020 and, with two games remaining in the regular season, he will still be able to see the team play in the champions’ … Read more
The Football Observatory analyzed this season’s global data on passing attempts and, analyzing more than a thousand teams in 71 leagues, Roger Schmidt’s Benfica are third, with Manchester City the most prolific, with 754 attempts per game in the Premier League. League. Only two of the 1,226 clubs surveyed also made more than 700 passes … Read more
Samuel Umtiti, on loan from Barcelona, arrived in Italy and was welcomed by Lecce fans, but the French international has yet to play. After eight Serie A matches, the central defender has been called up in Lecce’s last six squads, but he doesn’t even have a minute in the league. Coach Marco Baroni had previously … Read more
Francisco Benitez used social networks to criticize Virgílio Duque Vieira. The former chairman of the board of the Benfica General Assembly was elected at the General Assembly of the SAD for the Remuneration Committee. «Virgílio Duque Vieira was responsible for some of the darkest pages in the recent history of our Benfica. Keeping him on … Read more
Fernando Santos’ list for the Qatar World Cup will have 3 goalkeepers, 8 defenders and 7/8 midfielders and forwards. The 26 chosen will come out, from the beginning, of the 44 names that we publish here. Now the ‘goldsmith’s job’ is missing, with 80 percent of the choices made and there are six doubts. It … Read more
Manuel Pellegrini, current Betis coach, was sentenced by the British government to pay a fine of 343,000 pounds – around 381,000 euros – for tax evasion between April 2014 and April 2017. newsthe broadcaster that reported the news even guarantees that this is the largest fine ever seen in the history of football in England. … Read more
Joan Laporta, Barcelona president, still dreams of Lionel Messi’s return to Catalonia. The daily Mundo Deportivo this Saturday reports that the club has a plan in place for a rapprochement with the Argentine. The same source states that the operation will obviously be complicated by monetary issues, more or less the same that made it … Read more
Kylian Mbappé was one of the highlights of France on Thursday night. The PSG forward paved the way for victory over Austria (2-0), which kept the French fighting for survival in Division A of the League of Nations. When asked why performances are better in France than at the club, Mbappé appears to have left … Read more
Benfica basketball coach Norberto Alves analyzed the 92-67 win over Golden Eagle Ylli in the quarter-finals of Group C of the Champions League qualifying round: “In the first half we started badly and ended badly. At half-time I asked the players to stick to the game plan and we set a high pace. It is … Read more
Paulo Dybala (formerly of Juventus) admits that it took just a few minutes after speaking with José Mourinho to accept Roma’s invitation. The last few years at Juventus have not been easy, I needed a change. Mourinho called me and it only took me a few minutes to decide. He and the director explained the … Read more