Your team is going to lose the World Cup. Probably. Almost every team is going to lose the World Cup. That’s just the way the World Cup works. One team wins, and most teams lose. The odds are not in your favor. 2 Related But the World Cup is officially only 100 days away, which…
Spain’s hopes of winning the European Championships in England this summer received a crushing setback on Tuesday, just three days before their opener against Finland in Milton Keynes on Friday (stream LIVE, 11:50 am ET, on ESPN+), when Alexia Putellas was ruled out of the tournament. Putellas, 28, has been the game’s outstanding player for…
Editor’s note: This story has been translated and edited from the original Spanish version, which appeared on ESPN Deportes on Monday. Alba Palacios says she has finally found happiness, and a sense of contentment, as the Spanish football federation’s first transgender player, which has made her roller-coaster experience worth it. Palacios, who now plays for…
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It was September 2020 when Ansu Fati, aged 17 years and 311 days, curled a sensational right-footed shot past Ukraine’s Andriy Pyatov to become the youngest-ever goal scorer for Spain’s national team. It was a record which had stood proudly untouched for 95 years – since Real Union’s Juan Errazquin, a few days off his…
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