Having opened their Euro 2016 account with a 2-1 victory over Romania at Stade de France last Friday, France will be looking to show improvement in order to make it six points from a possible six at Stade Velodrome on Wednesday against Albania in their second match of the tournament.
Albania will be disappointed with their opening match and a frustrating loss to Switzerland. The Black Eagles gave their best despite playing with ten men for most of the proceedings following the dismissal of their captain Lorik Cana and Gianni De Biasi’s men will now enter the match against hosts with their backs against the wall.
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Jonathan Rowe has completed a season-long loan move to Ligue 1 side Marseille after a breakthrough campaign with Norwich in the Championship.
Rowe, who made 56 appearances for the Canaries in all competitions, has signed an initial loan deal with an option to buy for £17million.
After coming through the club s academy, Rowe made his Norwich debut in a 3-0 defeat to Crystal Palace in the Premier League back in December 2021.
But the 21-year-old established himself as a regular under David Wagner last season, netting 12 times in 32 league outings as the Canaries reached the play-offs.
His 36 completed dribbles was a total only bettered by Gabriel Sara (40) and Borja Sainz (43) in the Norwich squad, while he also created 24 chances for his side.
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Gabor Kiraly hopes the cult following behind his grey tracksuit bottoms can provide the foundation of his career after football.
The Hungary goalkeeper became the oldest player at a European Championship when, at the age of 40, he was the man between the posts for the nation s return to international football s biggest stage.
Having upset Austria and drawn with Iceland, Hungary endured a difficult match on Wednesday in Lyon, where Portugal s Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in a 3-3 draw.
But the result was good enough for Hungary to progress as group winners in their first appearance at a major finals since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
The national team s resurgence and Kiraly s distinctive clothing have both caught the imagination back home supporters w…
Sepp Blatter s main rival for the FIFA presidency, Jerome Champagne, believes there are plenty of options for relocating the 2022 World Cup.
Champagne is the only person who has voiced their intent to stand against Blatter in 2015 in an attempt to deny him a fifth consecutive term.
One of the primary issues that still dogs the organisation is the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar with questions raised over the integrity of the bidding process, worker conditions on stadiums and the practicalities of holding the tournament in the scorching heat of the Arab summer.
With investigations currently being carried out by the FIFA Ethics Committee investigatory head Michael Garcia, Champagne says there are a number of options if the World Cup is taken away from Qatar.
Phil Foden scored a brilliant hat-trick as Manchester City kept the pressure on in the Premier League title race with a 4-1 win over Champions League-chasing Aston Villa.
A day after defending his star striker against criticism from Roy Keane, Pep Guardiola left Erling Haaland on the bench alongside Kevin De Bruyne, clearing the stage for Foden to grab the spotlight with an outstanding performance and his second hat-trick of the campaign.
After Jhon Duran cancelled out Rodri’s opener, the 23-year-old put City back in front with a free-kick late in the first half before two excellent strikes settled it just after the hour mark, taking Foden to 21 City goals for the season.
Simply sensational!
Phil Foden wins the ball back in Villa s final third and rock…
Emma Hayes is eyeing gold in her first tournament in charge of the USWNT, labelling their journey to the Olympics final as the stuff dreams are made of .
The United States face Brazil in Saturday s showpiece match at the Parc des Princes in a repeat of the 2004 and 2008 finals, fixtures the US won on both occasions.
Hayes, who was appointed as Vlatko Andonovski s successor in May, has won eight of her nine games in charge (D1), scoring 19 goals and conceding just twice.
The former Chelsea head coach won her seventh WSL title in her final season with the Blues, saying her rapid transition to the international stage has been a whirlwind .
Going from my beloved Chelsea to the US women’s national team what a whirlwind and what a dream all at once, Haye…
The 2014 World Cup will take place in twelve different Brazilian towns. This was revealed by a spokesman of Brazil s FA (CBF) in an interview with newspaper O Globo.
Initially it was expected that the tournament would make use of ten cities but another two have now been added. The names of those cities, and of five others, haven t been revealed yet.
The five that are already certain of hosting games are Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte and capital city Brasilia.
World governing body FIFA has given its go-ahead for the adjustment, according to the spokesman. It is not the first time that the world s most prestigious football tournament uses this amount of cities as Germany 2006 had its matches played in twelve different towns as well.
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The final play-off draw for the 2022 World Cup has taken place, with four teams to compete for two places in Qatar.
On Friday, following the draw for the European play-offs – in which Italy and Portugal were drawn in the same path – FIFA also completed the draw for the inter-confederation games.
These matches will take place in Qatar in June 2022.
One team from each of the federations of Asia (AFC), South America (CONMEBOL), the Caribbean, North and Central America (CONCACAF) and Oceania (OFC) will compete in the single-leg fixtures to settle the final two places in the 32-team tournament.
The AFC side, which will be the winner of the fourth-round play-off in the Asian zone, were drawn against the CONMEBOL team, which will be the fifth-ranked side…
Greece coach Otto Rehhagel has unveiled his 23-man selection for the upcoming European Championships, where his team will be trying to defend their title.
Of the 23 players selected by the German manager, ten already represented the Greek team at Euro 2004, where Greece surprised all of Europe by taking the trophy.
Goalkeepers
Antonis Nikopolidis
Konstantinos Chalkias
Alexandros Tzorvas
Defenders
Giourkas Seitardis
Christos Patsatzoglou
Nikos Spyropoulos
Traianos Dellas
Loukas Vyntra
Vassilios Torosidis
Sotirios Kyrgiakos
Ioannis Goumas
Paraskevas Antzas
Midfielders
Angelos Basinas
Stylianos Giannakopoulos
Georgios Karagounis
Ioannis Amanatidis
Konstantinos Katsouranis
Alexandros Tziolis
Attackers
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Alexis Sanchez will lead Chile on their quest for the 2017 Confederations Cup title Credit: La Nacion
The 2017 Confederations Cup is right around the corner.
The pre-tournament before the 2018 World Cup will feature some of the best teams in the world. Here we present you a comprehensive preview of Group B, which features Germany, Chile, Australia, and Cameroon. The reigning World Cup holders are slight favourites on paper. However, Chile are a darkhorse to win the tournament based on their recent international results.
Germany
There has been a lot of talk regarding Germany and their participation in the Confederations Cup. Die Mannschaft arrived at the tournament as the reigning World Cup holders, and they were massive favourites to win the Cup until Joachim …