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NAPLES, Italy: Harry Kane broke Wayne Rooney’s national team scoring record and England held on for a 2-1 win at Italy on the opening night of European Championship qualifying on Thursday. It was a small measure of revenge for England against the team it lost to in the European Championship final two years ago. Italy also won the last meeting in September in the Nations League.
MANCHESTER, England: World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in elite female competitions and tightened testosterone restrictions for other athletes, the governing body said on Thursday.
LISBON: Cristiano Ronaldo broke the men’s international appearance record on Thursday by starting Portugal’s Euro 2024 qualifier against Liechtenstein. The 38-year-old, who was dropped from the Portuguese starting XI during the World Cup in Qatar last year, won a 197th cap for his country. “Records are my motivation,” Ronaldo told reporters on Wednesday.
UEFA turun tangan menyelidiki kasus pembayaran yang dilakukan Barcelona kepada eks wakil presiden Komite Wasit Spanyol, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira. Ancaman larangan tampil di Liga Champions kini menanti raksasa Catalan tersebut.
GENEVA: Barcelona are facing a new legal threat from UEFA, including a possible Champions League ban, because of their payments of millions of dollars to a company linked to a Spanish refereeing official. The European soccer body asked Thursday for an investigation into the matter, which is already being pursued by prosecutors in Spain. Champions League regulations in effect since April 2007 allow for clubs to be removed from European competitions if they were involved in fixing matches.
UEFA has launched an investigation following allegations Barcelona made payments to a former vice-president of Spain's referees' committee.
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom: Manchester City extended Julian Alvarez’s contract to 2028 on Thursday in recognition of an impressive debut season from the Argentine World Cup winner. Alvarez has largely had to play second fiddle to Erling Haaland, but has still scored 10 goals in 33 appearances in his first season in England.
BERLIN: After hitting their first bumps of 2023, Borussia Dortmund need to recover quickly to keep the Bundesliga title race exciting before facing Bayern Munich. Schalke ended Dortmund’s perfect league record since the turn of the year with a 2-2 draw on Saturday. They came after the club were knocked out of the Champions League by Chelsea the previous Tuesday — a 2-0 loss in the second leg that ended Dortmund’s 10-game winning run since the winter break.