(Reuters) – Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger hopes to complete the signing of FC Basel midfielder Mohamed Elneny by early next week after reported work permit issues threatened to stall the transfer. With midfielders Santi Cazorla and Francis Coquelin out with injury, Elneny would be a welcome addition to squad, which was stretched thin during the […]
By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) – Banned European soccer boss Michel Platini has withdrawn his candidacy from the race for the presidency of soccer’s scandal-plagued governing body FIFA, he told French sports daily L’Equipe on Thursday. Platini, the head of European soccer body UEFA, was handed an eight-year ban from the game along with outgoing […]
REUTERS – Striker Alexis Sanchez will miss Arsenal’s FA Cup third round tie with Sunderland on Saturday as a precautionary measure, manager Arsene Wenger has confirmed. The Chilean has been sidelined for more than a month after picking up a hamstring injury against Norwich City on November 29. He was expected to return to the […]
By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguayan state prosecutors on Thursday raided the headquarters of South American soccer confederation CONMEBOL after a request for cooperation from U.S. justice officials probing corruption inside world soccer, the prosecution office said. CONMEBOL lawyer Cristóbal Cáceres said the raid was linked to the case pending in the United States […]
By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – A suspended Guatemalan judge who was arrested last month as part of a U.S. investigation into corruption in soccer’s world governing body FIFA won the right to be released from jail on Thursday on a $4 million bond. Héctor Trujillo, 62, was secretary general of the Guatemalan soccer […]
By Tim Hanlon (Reuters) – Las Palmas’s Momo scored a stoppage-time winner as they twice came from behind to snatch a 3-2 win at nine-man Eibar in the first leg of their King’s Cup last-16 clash on Thursday. Momo fired into the top corner from the centre of the penalty area after 92 minutes against […]
