Emiliano Sala agreed to join Cardiff from Nantes.
Cardiff City are appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) following FIFA’s judgement over the transfer fee for the late Emiliano Sala.
FIFA announced on Monday that Cardiff City need to pay Nantes the first instalment of £5.3 million of Sala’s £15m transfer fee.
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Sala died in a plane crash in January while travelling from Nantes to Cardiff after the two clubs agreed upon a transfer for the Argentine striker. After his death, the clubs…
Emiliano Sala died in a plane crash following his move from Nantes to Cardiff.
FIFA has ordered Cardiff City to pay a transfer fee of £5.3 million (€6m) to Nantes for Emiliano Sala.
Sala died in a plane crash in January while travelling from Nantes to Cardiff after the two clubs agreed upon a transfer for the Argentine striker. After his death, the clubs failed to reach an agreement over the striker’s outstanding £15m transfer fee so Nantes referred the case to FIFA in April.
– In search of Emiliano Sala
In a statement on Monday, FIFA said: “The…
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Bruno Fernandes looks set to stay at Sporting Lisbon for the time being after discussions with interested Premier League clubs broke down, sources have told ESPN FC.
Fernandes, the sought-after Portuguese midfielder, was linked with a move in this transfer window with Sporting wanting a fee in the region of €70 million.
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LYON, France — As the heartbreak set in, the emotions still raw having seen his team’s Women’s World Cup dreams go up in stars-and-stripe smoke, Phil Neville stood in the middle of the England huddle and addressed his 23 players. He said he didn’t want to see any tears. His mind was already racing ahead, thinking of what they’d accomplished, where they go from here and …
That bronze medal match to which his team was relegated after a 2-1 loss to the United States on Tuesday night.
Save the day…
LYON, France — When one of the media officers for the England women’s national soccer team recently had checked in his suitcase at Heathrow Airport, the security officials may have been surprised at some of the contents.
Amid the usual travel wears, there were bottles and bottles of HP Sauce, a British condiment that goes with anything and everything .
So when a player and team have been entrenched within the biggest tournament of their careers, any bit of levity, or HP Sauce, helps.
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LYON, France — England Women manager Phil Neville hailed U.S. star Megan Rapinoe as “world class” and said he knew of her competitiveness to his own cost after she inadvertently destroyed his watch during a game last year.
Rapinoe has been one of the stars of the Women’s World Cup, scoring all four goals in the U.S.’s two knockout matches to help them into the semifinals.
She and her teammates now face England in Lyon on Tuesday, and Neville said he knew how hard it would be to curb her influence.
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Cameroon manager Alain Djeumfa accused officials of a “miscarriage of justice” in Sunday’s World Cup loss to England, citing frustration with multiple video replay decisions while defending his players’ protest of the calls.
At times during the incident-filled game, the Cameroon players looked like they might refuse to resume playing, leading England manager Phil Neville to say he was “ashamed” of his opponents’ behavior.
Asked whether he thought the calls against Cameroon were racist, Djeumfa reiterated…
Cameroon manager Alain Djeumfa accused officials of a “miscarriage of justice” in Sunday’s World Cup loss to England, citing frustration with multiple video replay decisions while defending his players’ protest of the calls.
At times during the incident-filled game, the Cameroon players looked like they might refuse to resume playing, leading England manager Phil Neville to say he was “ashamed” of his opponents’ behavior.
Asked whether he thought the calls against Cameroon were racist, Djeumfa reiterated…
NICE, France — When Sam Kerr was asked just after her four-goal haul against Jamaica for her moment of the Women’s World Cup to date, she ignored her own remarkable feat and thought of the Thailand team.
The Australian star recalled a few days earlier, when Thailand scored its first goal of the tournament after trailing Sweden 4-0. The lone goal triggered an outpouring of emotion on the Thailand touchline, and shots of the “crying lady” — as she was called on social media — embracing manager…
Germany suffered a significant injury blow at the Women’s World Cup, as star midfielder Dzsenifer Marozsan has been ruled out of their remaining group stage matches with a fractured toe.
Marozsan, 27, suffered the injury during Germany’s 1-0 win over China on Saturday but managed to play the full 90 minutes.
Germany manager Martina Voss-Tecklenburg confirmed the severity of the injury Tuesday and was reluctant to put a time frame on Marozsan’s recovery, but she did rule her out of the team’s group…