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The decisive week at Real Madrid begins with more talks about Ancelotti’s future

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The La Liga campaign is not over yet, but Real Madrid’s plans for the next season are set to start this week, with important meetings that are expected to resolve many important issues facing the club. The Real Madrid team is set to train again on Wednesday after enjoying a few days. By then, Carlo Ancelotti is hopeful that the talks will lead to an official confirmation that he will remain as manager for 2023-24. Ancelotti met President Florentino Perez at the Valdebebas Training Complex in Madrid after losing 4-0…

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Barcelona bid farewell to the Camp Nou, and it is not known for certain when it will return

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Just before 11pm local time, more than two hours after the final whistle in Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Real Mallorca, the lights at the old Camp Nou went out. Barcelona’s home since September 1957 will be partially demolished in the coming weeks, and the team will play across town at Lluis Companies’ Estadi Olimpic while it is redeveloped. “Full of history. Full of the future” (“Ple d’historia. Ple de futur”) was the catchphrase for a well-planned and choreographed farewell to the old concrete bowl on Sunday night, with a tearful…

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Doucoure saves Everton, Leicester concedes again and Allardyce gets his tactics wrong

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Leicester City and Leeds United were relegated from the Premier League after a thrilling final day that saw Everton survive. Abdoulaye Doucoure’s goals in the second half saw coach Sean Dycke’s team beat Bournemouth 1-0, while Leeds were crushed 4-1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur. Leicester beat West Ham United 2-1, but it wasn’t enough given Everton’s victory. the athlete Analyzes 90 minutes of nail-biting motion at the bottom of the table… Leeds go six goals back in a must-win game…and concede after two minutes into both halves You need…

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Stop worrying about wasting time – every team does and it won’t get (much) worse

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Time wasting. By all accounts, a colossal waste of time…or a means to an end by which a football team can win the game. There have been many high profile examples this season of what seemed like relentlessly excruciating bouts of wasting time. Players fall to the ground one, two, even three at a time in the closing stages of matches, ‘Keepers taking a tooth out with goal kicks… I felt that was very common. Because He is common. Basically this happens in every match – and that’s nothing new.…

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Special report: The extent of gambling’s grip on football dressing rooms

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“Every club has boys playing poker in the back of a bus or plane to an away game, betting £100 or £200,” Steven Caulker tells The Athletic. “I was 19 when I was at Swansea City and we had a big gambling culture. We would go into casinos and play online in our (hotel) rooms. “I remember sharing a room with someone who had been gambling. He had won, gone to bed and left me with his account. I said ‘I will transfer you £1,000 tomorrow’. By the time he…

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Vinicius Junior and racism in Spanish football: Why is it so bad? Is there hope for change?

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We are now five days on from the shocking events of Sunday, when Vinicius Junior was racially abused by Valencia fans. It was far from the first time Real Madrid’s star winger has been targeted at a Spanish football ground. La Liga has filed nine legal complaints relating to such abuse since October 2021. In January, an effigy of the Brazil international was hung from a motorway bridge near Real’s training ground. After the match on Sunday — during which he confronted Valencia fans — Vinicius Jr posted on social…

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How Manchester City ‘switched on’ to win the Premier League

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The year was just a few days old but word of disharmony in the Manchester City camp had spread far and wide. It was even being discussed at other clubs. The start of 2023 was rough for City. Yet they have emerged from that period emphatically, storming to a third straight Premier League title thanks to 11 victories in a row — even if they had Arsenal’s defeat away to Nottingham Forest to thank for getting them over the line. Such has been their resurgence, powered by Erling Haaland’s 36…

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MLS adds San Diego expansion team; Manny Machado joins the ownership group

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Commissioner Don Garber announced Thursday that Major League Soccer will add an expansion franchise in San Diego. Here’s what you need to know: The club, which has yet to be named, is owned by Egyptian billionaire and former politician Mohamed Mansour and the Sekuan band of the Kumyai nation. Padres star Manny Machado is also joining the league’s group of investors. Team ownership pays a It reported a $500 million expansion fee. The club is scheduled to play at Snapdragon Stadium, which is also the home of the NWSL’s San…

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How Barcelona won La Liga: Old-school rules, new hunger and a changing of the guard

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When Xavi was made Barcelona manager in November 2021, he found a squad that was lacking in confidence. Barca had not won the league title in two and half years, and there were few signs they would be truly ready to challenge for one again soon. Tough losses in the Champions League had left their mark on a group whose ambition was to compete among the European elite. There was still a sense of trauma around the comeback defeats suffered against Roma and Liverpool, in 2018 and 2019. The 8-2…

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How MLS’ Frank Klopas and Chicago Fire started a new era is under way

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Bumper-to-bumper traffic on Interstate 55 South from Chicago to Bridgeview, Illinois, on Tuesday afternoon was neither unexpected nor welcome at all. But on this occasion, his extra 20 minutes in stalemate was an extra 20 minutes for Frank Klopas to talk about everything that’s happened in the last 30 hours or so. The previous morning, Klopas had arrived to work as an assistant coach for the Chicago Fire. He left as the head coach. Chicago fired head coach Ezra Hendrickson and assistant junior Gonzalez, leaving Klopas head coach until the…

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