Ruthless Bayern Destroys Roma
By REUTERS
Bayern Munich scored five goals in the first 35 minutes on the way to a 7-1 demolition of A.S. Roma in the Champions League.
Chelsea earned its biggest Champions League victory, 6-0 over Maribor at Stamford Bridge, with a performance that underlined the belief that the team is a real contender again.
Bayern Munich scored five goals in the first 35 minutes on the way to a 7-1 demolition of A.S. Roma in the Champions League.
The Brazilian striker Luiz Adriano became the first player in Champions League history to score four goals in an opening half as Shakhtar Donetsk trounced BATE Borisov, 7-0, in Group H.
CSKA Moscow staged a stirring comeback from a 2-0 deficit in a Champions League clash played behind closed doors.
Bayern Munich crushed Roma in the Champions League, 7-1, sending a message that it might be more formidable than it was when it won it all two years ago.
After Ferguson retired, Manchester United struggled under his replacement at coach, David Moyes. This year, under Louis van Gaal, United is not doing much better.
Sergio Agüero returned from Beijing and Hong Kong with the Argentine national team to score four times in Manchester City's 4-1 home romp over Tottenham.
Aaron Schoenfeld scored twice, and the Crew beat the Red Bulls, 3-1, on Sunday to move into a third-place tie in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference.
Southampton crushed visiting Sunderland, 8-0, in one of the biggest wins in the Premier League’s 22-year history, overshadowing Sergio Agüero’s four-goal haul in Manchester City’s thrashing of Tottenham on Saturday.
An Albanian nationalist banner flown over a stadium in the Serbian capital ignited a brawl on the field and went on to provoke a full-scale diplomatic incident.
Through a program called Aspire Football Dreams, the Qataris had scouted hundreds of thousands of young African players; needing a place where the best youths could play professionally, they found it in a team in a small Belgian town.
Soccer’s governing body has taken a misguided approach to concussions in large part because of the sport’s substitution rules, which allow for only three replacements per game.
The 2014 World Cup was a runaway success, but significant issues like match fixing, player safety and the Cup bidding process need to be confronted.
Its team suffered a humiliating semifinal defeat, but Brazil is taking comfort in its success as host of the World Cup and in its archrival Argentina’s loss in the final.
The huge exposure Univision received from the World Cup showed how the growth of America’s Hispanic population has reshaped the media landscape.
A collection of our interactives and analysis.
To say goodbye to the 2014 World Cup, we’ve put together a special round of Spot the Ball, featuring five views of that tournament-winning goal by Germany. See if you can guess where the ball went.
Soccer fans in Berlin and Buenos Aires during the final match of the World Cup.
A panoramic view of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Mauricio Lima went to remote villages, up the river and even to a prison, to document his countrymen’s passion for the sport, as well as their lives, during the World Cup.