June 21 – The chants of ‘Mes-si! Mes-si! Mes-si!’ started more than an hour before kickoff and kept up throughout Argentina’s 2-0 win over Canada in the Copa America opening game in Atlanta.
June 21 – There was a moment of silence ahead of the Spain-Italy Group B match on Thursday in honour of former UEFA general secretary and chief executive Gerhard Aigner, who has died aged 80.
June 21 – Italy manager Luciano Spalletti admitted that his side were outplayed by Spain in a 1-0 defeat, but said that the humbling reality check must prompt his side to improve.
June 21 – England manager Gareth Southgate says the country must improve after suffering a barrage of criticism for failing once again to get the best out of his talented side.
June 21 – The North Macedonia FA has demanded a public apology from Albanian international Mirlind Daku for his offensive chants after Wednesday’s Euro 2024 match between Croatia and Albania.
June 21 – Austria manager Ralf Rangnick insists his team is ready to face Poland in today’s matchup in the German capital, as Polish star Robert Lewandowski eyes a return to the starting team after missing out last week due to injury.
June 20 – The city of Brussels has refused to host a Nations League match between Belgium and Israel in September because of the “dramatic situation in Gaza”.
June 20 – Bulgarian champions Ludogorets are poised to begin a large-scale reconstruction of the club’s Huvepharma Arena in Razgrad, according to Angel Petrichev, the club’s executive director who was speaking before the start of the team’s summer training camp.
June 20 – With all eyes still very much on Euro 2024, across the Atlantic in Atlanta the Copa America gets under way tonight with the opening game between Canada and two-time defending champions Argentina.
June 20 – UEFA’s disciplinary committee has punished the national federations of Serbia and Albania after the first matches in the group stage of Euro 2024 for the behaviour of their fans in the matches against England and Italy.
For the past 26 years, a lot has changed (and not only) in football. At FIFA, what started in 1998 with serial betrayal on an epic scale, ended in mayhem in 2015: Blatter’s reign. At UEFA, what was a period of solid progress throughout the tenure of Lennart Johannson, was followed by the incompetence of a deified footballer who was just that but didn’t have the first clue about running a confederation or the governance required: it,
June 19 – Canada Soccer is moving on from its previous media partner Mediapro following a settlement with Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) to the legal action filed in January 2024 with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
June 19 – FIFA and UEFA have expressed opposition to an Italian government plan to set up a committee to oversee the budgets of professional clubs.
June 19 – With the second round of Euro 2024 matches kicking off today, UEFA is putting a special focus its ‘Get Trained, Save Lives’ campaign.
June 18 – FIFA has extended bans globally on seven Ugandans implicated in a match-fixing spree in the 2023/2024 season.