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Football: Mauricio Isla retires at 38 after 144 caps for Chile
It started on a 7 September. It ended on one too. Mauricio Isla clearly wanted the dates to line up. On 7 September 2007, aged 19, he was handed his Chile debut by Marcelo Bielsa. Nineteen years later to the day, the right-back announced he was finished with professional football, in a long Instagram post.…
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Football: Eto’o faces FIFA ethics complaint over a €567,570 payment
€567,570, one friendly, and a bank account in Doha A single figure sits at the centre of this. €567,570, the money Russia paid around the friendly played against Cameroon in Moscow in October 2023. The Times published an investigation this afternoon into where that money went. Samuel Eto’o, president of the Cameroon federation, is the…
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Champions League: Zabarnyi’s night in a 6-1 win raises fresh PSG doubts
One Slovan goal, and a defender under the lamp again Camara. Nobody in Paris knew the name on Wednesday morning. By the end of the night he had got past Illia Zabarnyi and put Slovan Bratislava’s only goal into the net at the Parc des Princes. PSG won 6-1. That scoreline will be forgotten by…
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LaLiga: Barcelona handed a €150m wage-cap boost
The document Spanish clubs dread every September Once the summer window shuts, LaLiga publishes a number next to every club’s name. That number is the salary cap, the ceiling on what a team can spend on its playing squad, and it lands each year with no ceremony at all. What sits inside it is broad.…
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Football: Slimani rules out retirement at 38 and waits for the right club
Thirty-eight, no club, no panic Free agent since his last deal ran out. Islam Slimani is not treating that as an ending. The Algerian striker sat down with L’Equipe for an interview published a few hours ago and made his position plain: he is still playing. “I am 38, I am still fit, and I…
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MLB: Kade Anderson banks a first win Seattle needed to see
Seattle’s season is all but gone, but their 22-year-old left-hander picked a good night to collect a first major league win.
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Tennis: Serena Williams plays down her comeback at 44
Serena Williams came back to the court in June. On Thursday in New York she explained why nobody should read too much into it.
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Brasileirao: Ziyech joins a Botafogo side sitting 14th
Two years ago they won everything Botafogo lifted the Copa Libertadores and the Brazilian title in 2024. They are now 14th. That is the context for the signing the Rio club confirmed on its social channels on Thursday afternoon. Hakim Ziyech is the name. The 33-year-old Moroccan attacking midfielder arrives from Wydad Casablanca, where he…
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World Cup: FIFA pours cold water on Lekjaa’s 2030 final claim
He said it at a political rally Faouzi Lekjaa was not at a football event when he dropped it. The president of the Moroccan Football Federation was speaking at a political gathering early in the afternoon when he announced that Benslimane province would stage the 2030 World Cup final. Then he kept going. A Morocco…