Reigning European champions Real Madrid have been announced as the opponents for the 2017 MLS All-Star Game in Chicago.
Madrid have won the Champions League in two of the last three seasons, while they are in the quarter-finals of this season s competition, and Zinedine Zidane s side will now take on the best MLS has to offer in August.
Chicago s Soldier Field will host the Spanish giants in the annual fixture on August 2, with the game set to form part of a pre-season tour of the United States for Madrid.
They will become the first LaLiga side to face off against the MLS All-Stars, with previous opponents including Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Manchester United.
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Ben Olsen will be hoping Houston Dynamo can take another step in the right direction when they visit Real Salt Lake for Thursday s MLS meeting.
The Dynamo recorded a narrow 1-0 win over Charlotte FC in their last outing, with this the chance to find a third straight victory and continue their resurgent form.
El Naranja sit sixth in the Western Conference standings, one point adrift of the top four, yet head coach Olsen still wants improvements from his Houston roster.
It s a step in the right direction, we ve got a week to recover – Salt Lake away that is never going to be easy, Olsen said after the Charlotte win, looking ahead to RSL.
And then LAFC comes [to us at home], so it was important to get the last three points.
The clean sheet is th…
Gareth Southgate has explained a lack of goal involvements and regular football led to the respective omissions of Jesse Lingard and Dele Alli from his latest England squad.
Lingard and Alli were two of the stars of England s run to the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup but have struggled for their best form of late.
The Manchester United attacker is without a goal or an assist in the Premier League in 2019, while Alli has been a relatively peripheral figure for Tottenham after recovering from a hamstring injury.
Liverpool s Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain has been similarly left out, with Southgate unable to ignore the claims of James Maddison and Mason Mount.
I think Jesse s had a difficult period. He s aware of that, the England manager told a Wembley news co…
While the fixture itself remains eagerly anticipated, the Derby della Madonnina on Sunday serves as another reminder that AC Milan and Inter are no longer among European football s dominant forces.
Milan were in danger of missing out on continental football until Gennaro Gattuso masterminded an eight-game unbeaten streak to put them back in the frame in seventh, while the ailing Inter have slipped from first to fourth after a run of two wins in 11 league fixtures.
It is a far cry from the 2010-11 season, when the clubs last finished as the top two in Serie A the Rossoneri beating their rivals, Champions League winners the previous campaign, to the Scudetto by four points.
To illustrate their decline, we take a look at how a combined XI from that campaign compares…
Week 15 features a Saturday showdown between two of the hottest teams in the NFL as the Indianapolis Colts host the New England Patriots at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Oddsmakers are predicting a close contest with NFL betting lines opening the Colts as slim 1.5-point favorites before sliding to -2.5.
Here are our best free Patriots vs. Colts NFL picks and predictions for Saturday, December 18, with kickoff at 8:15 p.m. ET.
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Sometimes you just get dealt a bad hand.
There’s no shame in it. It’s not your fault. Every once in a while, we face a situation that is unavoidably — and unequivocally — stinky.
That, my friends, is the situation we’re in with trying to evaluate D.J. Moore props for the first game of the Week 10 slate.
Why Moore, you ask? Well, as my colleague Jason Logan said in his Falcons vs. Panthers predictions article, “Atlanta is attempting to stay in the hunt for the division lead at 4-5, which kind of tells you everything you need to know about this group of teams.”
Not only are both of these teams kinda bad, but the Falcons’ run game is an unpredictable three-headed monster (and the passing game is non-existent), Carolina’s offense is a gia…
Just when the Philadelphia Eagles thought they were out of the woods, they may be without the services of Jalen Hurts tonight vs. the Seattle Seahawks.
Hurts is questionable with an illness and with the team riding a two-game losing streak and flying cross country to take on a Seattle team struggling in their own regard.
With Geno Smith also questionable, we could see two backup QBs fight it out in prime time.
While there are a number of different subscription-based TV channels and streaming services available to watch this game… did you know that you can also live stream Eagles/Seahawks directly from legal sports betting sites?
In Canada, bet365 is one of our most trusted NFL betting sites — and the premier platform that offers NFL…
The residents of MetLife Stadium will have their annual preseason showdown on Saturday night as the New York Giants battle the New York Jets.
The Jets are 2-0 in the preseason and have winning streaks — both regular season and exhibition — against their crosstown rivals, but our Giants vs. Jets predictions are bucking those “Snoopy Bowl” trends.
The Giants have more on the line in Saturday’s clash, so they get the nod in my NFL picks for August 24.
Giants vs Jets prediction
My best betGiants -2.5 (-110 at BetMGM)
My analysisWhile both teams know exactly who will be starting for them at quarterback come Week 1, the New York Jets have a lot more confidence behind center right now than the Gi…
Brazilian football icon Ronaldo believes that his country are the favourites to win the FIFA World Cup in 2014.
Speaking after the hosts FIFA Confederations Cup final win on Sunday, the 36-year-old said that the success could be a stepping stone for Brazil to win the biggest title in international football for the sixth time.
Brazil beat current world champions Spain 3-0 to seal the Confederations Cup crown and Ronaldo, who scored 62 goals in 98 games for his nation, believes his countrymen can win the competition on home soil.
I think that the Brazilian team is again the Brazilian team, the favourite to win the title, he said.
I think that the national team showed very good potential, it is again one of the main national teams in the world, (they) gained again …
Rodri remains intent on building a legacy to replicate the greatness of Spain s golden generation as La Roja prepare to meet France in the Euro 2024 semi-finals on Tuesday.
Luis de la Fuente s side are the only team to win all five matches so far at the tournament in Germany, with their next challenge an out-of-sorts Les Bleus in Munich.
That Spain form has drawn many comparisons to the La Roja side that triumphed in back-to-back Euros across 2008 and 2012, lifting the World Cup between those successes.
Rodri has been compared to legendary Spanish midfielders Xavi and Andres Iniesta, both integral to those aforementioned triumphs, though the current international says they started from scratch, too.
That golden generation, when it started, wasn t, the Ma…