To mark Club America’s centennial season, club legend and current mayor of Cuernavaca Cuauhtemoc Blanco was brought back to play one final Liga MX match 11 months after he retired from football. Wearing the No. 100 shirt, Blanco started Morelia on Saturday and dazzled the crowd with flashes of his unique skills, including his signature move, the Cuauhtemiña.
Blanco only played 38 minutes, but he very nearly scored a spectacular goal. Watch this…
It was mutually assured disappointment in the north London derby as both Arsenal and Spurs proved yet again that they can’t win when it matters most. Despite being outplayed for much of the first half, Arsenal took a 1-0 only to have everything crumble around them in a span of seven minutes as Francis Coquelin was sent off before Spurs scored twice.
With a move into first place seeming inevitable, Spurs then conceded an equalizer to 10-man Arsenal in the 76th minute. To the delight of Leicester, the match ended 2-2, which means we really must ask “What if it continued?”
For Copa America 2015 Mexico went with an all black kit, but for Copa America 2016, they return to their traditional green and white. It’s nothing too flashy, but keeping it simple often results in great kits and this is one of them.
When Fenway Sports Group bought Liverpool from George Gillett and Tom Hicks, there was cautious optimism that they would turn things around for the club after the stormy reign of their predecessors. Now, in a court case relating to the 2010 sale of the club, it has been revealed that FSG didn’t really know what they were getting into after all.
Hello, Pep.
I’d like you to meet my old friend, the Capital One Cup. We first became acquainted with each other two years ago and now we have been reunited, which means I have won a trophy in 2016 and you have not. What a pity. A hilarious, wonderful pity.
The second leg of the CONCACAF Champions League tie between Club America and the Seattle Sounders got a bit bloody when Rubens Sambueza stepped on Clint Dempsey’s face.
This is Eder Loko. He plays for Brazilian club Agua Santa and he is a man who has thoroughly earned his nickname.
Hannover’s Bundesliga match against Wolfsburg was nearly abandoned just before kickoff when the visiting Wolfsburg supporters launched a flare that somehow made it across the pitch and into the home side’s dugout.
Cristiano Ronaldo sparked outrage when he told reporters after Real Madrid’s loss to Atletico that “If we were all at my level, maybe we would be leaders.” He later clarified that comment by saying that he was talking about his injury plagued teammates’ level of fitness and not their level of play and now it has been revealed that he apologized directly to them via WhatsApp. The following is a transcript of that conversation.
Lyon ended PSG’s 36-match unbeaten streak with a 2-1 win on Sunday, but Zlatan did not go down without a fight.
