Everton's new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock hosted 10,000 supporters for a trial event featuring an under-18 exhibition match against Wigan Athletic as the Premier League team prepare to leave Goodison Park at the end of this season. Construction of the new 52,888-seat venue lasted four years and cost nearly 800 million pounds ($1.01 billion),…

Lionel Messi's Inter Miami Champions Cup game against Sporting Kansas City has been delayed due to severe weather conditions, including heavy snowfall, the North American soccer organization CONCACAF announced on Monday. The match, initially set for Tuesday, would have marked Javier Mascherano's team's first appearance in the continental…

Forward Robert Lewandowski converted a first-half penalty to hand Barcelona a gritty 1-0 home victory over Rayo Vallecano on Monday, lifting them to first in the LaLiga table. Barca capitalized on Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid slipping up over the weekend to jump from third place to the summit of the rankings. Barca are tied on 51 points with…

Parma have cut ties with coach Fabio Pecchia, the Serie A team announced on Monday, after a fourth straight loss kept the newly promoted side in the drop zone. Sunday's 1-0 defeat at home to AS Roma stretched Parma's winless streak to seven matches, which has seen the team fall to 18th in the table, having secured just four victories in their 25…

Real Valladolid have fired coach Diego Cocca after just eight matches in charge, the LaLiga club announced on Monday, with the squad sitting bottom of the table following a streak of five straight losses. Cocca was hired on December 14 with a deal until the end of the campaign, but after securing only one victory during his tenure, reserve squad…

AC Milan step into their Champions League playoff second leg with Feyenoord one goal behind and need to handle the return match with the Dutch squad the same as they would a final, the club's senior mentor Zlatan Ibrahimovic said on Monday. With Milan boss Sergio Conceicao making his comeback from Portugal after attending the memorial of former…

Bayern Munich forward Harry Kane skipped training but manager Vincent Kompany dismissed worries of a major setback and remained confident he would be fit for Tuesday's Champions League knockout second leg showdown against Celtic at the Allianz Arena. The six-time European winners put themselves in control by grabbing a 2-1 win over Celtic in the…

Feyenoord captain Quinten Timber has been ruled out for the rest of the season after undergoing knee surgery on a ligament injury, his team said on Monday. He suffered the injury in an awkward tumble last week when Feyenoord edged AC Milan 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League knockout clash in Rotterdam and did not fly with the rest of…

Nabil Bentaleb couldn't have dreamed up his return any better after the Lille playmaker marked his comeback to the squad following a cardiac arrest last season with a goal in Sunday's 2-0 victory at Stade Rennais. The ex-Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest on June 18 and there were questions about the…

Barcelona boss Hansi Flick urged his squad to steer clear of "rude" actions toward game officials after Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham was handed a straight red card for disputing a decision in their 1-1 clash at Osasuna. Bellingham stated after Saturday's match that he had not offended the referee and called the situation a mix-up. On Sunday, he…