International Football

23 articles tagged with "International Football"

Oct 20, 2026

Ronaldo missed 31 squad activities, and a 30-day ban still leaves him free for Denmark in November

Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for 30 days and fined €255 by the Portuguese Football Federation for walking out of the national team camp, and 1...

Oct 11, 2026

Portugal suspended Ronaldo on Friday, and their president already wants him back in November

The federation’s disciplinary council has opened an urgent case over Cristiano Ronaldo’s walkout, and Pedro Proença should have let it run before nami...

Oct 10, 2026

Montella took Türkiye to a Euro 2024 quarter-final, and four straight Nations League defeats have cost him his job

The Turkish Football Federation has ended Vincenzo Montella’s three years in charge after Türkiye lost all four of their Nations League games this aut...

Oct 6, 2026

Poland national football team players: Urban’s squad, and Lewandowski’s 92 goals to the rest’s 58

Jan Urban’s 23-man Poland squad for the Nations League, with every player’s club, caps and goals, the key players, who is missing and why Lewandowski...

Oct 4, 2026

Yamal scored and was off at half-time, and Spain beat ten-man Czechia 3-1 in Oviedo

Lamine Yamal curled in his fourth goal in three Nations League games, and Spain held off a Czechia fightback to stay perfect in Group A3.

Oct 3, 2026

De Bruyne scored twice in Liège, and Türkiye have lost all three of their Nations League games

Kevin De Bruyne’s double and a Romelu Lukaku goal off the bench gave Belgium a 3-0 win over Türkiye, who sit bottom of Group A1 without a point.

Oct 2, 2026

Zidane’s first home game as France coach is against Italy, and Mancini says France are much further ahead

France have two 1-0 away wins and no goals against in the Nations League. Italy, who won 3-1 on their last trip to Paris, come to the Stade de France...

Oct 2, 2026

Ronaldo walked out on Wednesday, and Portugal scored four without him in Copenhagen

Gonçalo Ramos set up one goal and scored another as Portugal beat Denmark 4-2 at Parken to make it three Nations League wins from three.

Sep 29, 2026

Zidane made nine changes in Brussels, and two of his substitutes won it for France

Michael Olise came off the bench and ran from his own half to beat Belgium 1-0, and Zinedine Zidane’s France have won both Nations League games so far...

Sep 29, 2026

Italy were booed off in Rome on Friday, and they led Turkey 3-0 inside 27 minutes on Monday

Roberto Mancini has his first win back in charge of Italy. Debutant Michael Kayode scored and the Esposito brothers started together in a 4-1 win in t...

Sep 25, 2026

Zidane turned down every club offer after Real Madrid, and his first France game is in Izmit tonight

France start their Nations League campaign against Turkey with three uncapped defenders in the squad and Zidane on the bench for the first time since...

Sep 24, 2026

Klopp says he knows more of the Dutch players than Xavi does, and both men start their new jobs in Amsterdam

Netherlands host Germany in the Nations League at 12.15am IST on Friday, with Jürgen Klopp and Xavi both taking charge for the first time after early...

Jul 17, 2026

Germany turn to Klopp to rebuild after their World Cup disaster

After the humiliation of a round-of-32 exit to Paraguay and Nagelsmann’s resignation, Germany are on the brink of handing Jurgen Klopp his first inter...

Jul 11, 2026

Neymar’s Brazil career ends where it began, and without the World Cup that shadowed it

Neymar has walked away from international football as Brazil’s all-time top scorer, bookending his career at the same New Jersey stadium where it star...

Jul 10, 2026

Klopp agrees to become Germany manager after Nagelsmann’s World Cup exit

The Liverpool icon is set to replace Julian Nagelsmann in the German dugout, with a four-year deal agreed and only the formal announcement to come.

Jul 8, 2026

Ronaldo’s World Cup story ends with the one prize he never got

Spain’s late winner in Dallas sent Cristiano Ronaldo out of his sixth and final World Cup, the one prize that eluded him across two decades at the top...

Jun 24, 2026

The round of 32 is the 48-team World Cup’s great unknown

The 2026 World Cup is about to enter a round of 32, a knockout phase no men’s tournament has staged before. Here is how the new format works and what...

Jun 17, 2026

Arnautovic’s stoppage-time penalty caps Austria’s first World Cup win in 36 years

Austria returned to the World Cup with a hard-fought 3-1 win over debutants Jordan in Santa Clara, settled by Marko Arnautovic’s penalty deep into sto...

Jun 13, 2026

Scotland’s 28-year wait ends against Haiti as two outsiders open Group C

Steve Clarke’s Scotland are back at the World Cup for the first time since 1998, and a Haiti side returning after a 52-year absence stands between the...

Jun 6, 2026

The dark horses who could gatecrash the 2026 World Cup

With 48 teams and an extra knockout round, the 2026 World Cup is built for an outsider to make a run. Here are the dark horses worth backing, from Mor...

Jun 2, 2026

The World Cup just got much bigger, and that is not the same as better

The 2026 World Cup will be the first with 48 teams, 104 matches and a brand new round of 32, spread across three countries. It is the most ambitious f...

Jun 2, 2026

At 41, Ronaldo is still the question Portugal cannot bring themselves to answer

Portugal are taking a 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo to a sixth World Cup, and not everyone thinks they should. The real test is whether Roberto Martin...

Mar 30, 2026

Doue scores twice as France cruise past Colombia in World Cup warm-up

PSG forward Desire Doue opened his international scoring account with a double as France beat Colombia 3-1 in a friendly at Northwest Stadium on Sunda...