Celtic midfielder Aaron Mooy has announced his retirement from football with immediate effect.
The 32-year-old was part of last season’s treble-winning side after arriving at Celtic Park last summer from Chinese side Shanghai Port.
He won 57 caps for Australia and played all four games as they reached the last-16 of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, losing to eventual champions Argentina.
His single season at Celtic saw him score seven goals in 42 games in all competitions as the team retained the Scottish Premiership title and won both domestic cups.
He told the club’s website: “While it feels really sad to be leaving the game, I just feel the time is right for me. I have been so fortunate to enjoy such a great career across the last 15 years, creating …
Liverpool’s Carabao Cup final victory over Chelsea was manager Jurgen Klopp’s “most special trophy” after they overcame more injury adversity to win 1-0 at Wembley after extra time.
Already without 11 first-team players, they lost Ryan Gravenberch to an ankle problem after half-an-hour and finished the match with four academy players on the pitch but the youngsters held out long enough for captain Virgil van Dijk to head the 118th-minute winner.
“In more than 20 years it is easily the most special trophy I have ever won. It is absolutely exceptional,” said Klopp, who is leaving the club at the end of the season and looked emotional on the pitch at the final whistle.
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Bayern Munich were transformed from pre-Christmas shambles to European football s dominant force after Hansi Flick s appointment midway through last season.
Niko Kovac s successor masterminded a 30-match unbeaten run, beginning last December 11 and spanning all competitions.
That march culminated with a 1-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League final, after Bayern authoritatively outlasted Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig to win an eighth straight Bundesliga crown and swatted aside Bayer Leverkusen to lift the DFB Pokal.
They are achievements to place Flick s side among the finest of the modern era, but is a prolonged run of success guaranteed for those who conquer all before them?
Here, with the help of Opta, we look at what some recent t…
Rangers value James Tavernier at £15 million, according to . The report has claimed that there is interest in the right-back from clubs in Saudi Arabia. Rangers do not want to sell their captain and star player, who has two years left on his current deal, but the Gers do have placed a £15 million price-tag on him.
Tavenier has been on the books of Rangers since 2015 and has established himself as one of the best and most important players for the Gers. Despite being a right-back by trade, he is a goal machine. Tavernier has scored 17 goals and given nine assists in 34 Scottish Premiership games this season. He scored 16 goals and provided nine assists in the league last season.
Rangers are second in the Scottish Premiership table at the moment with 78 points from 34 m…
FIFA says there will be no compensation for clubs for the November-December World Cup in Qatar in 2022.
There will be no compensation for clubs over the decision to move the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to November and December, according to FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke.
On Tuesday, it was announced that a FIFA task force had recommended the last two months of the year as the best time to hold the finals, with temperatures in Qatar in the traditional months of June and July regularly soaring above 40 degrees centigrade.
Although the likes of UEFA and the Confederation of African Football backed the recommendation, major European leagues such as the Premier League and La Liga opposed the notion, with a final decision to be made next month.
A November-De…
Two-time Women’s World Cup winner, Kelley O’Hara has announced that she will retire from football at the end of the 2024 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) season.
Between 2011 and 2023, she played in four Women’s World Cups, becoming just the 12th US player to reach that landmark, and three Olympic Games, winning a gold medal in 2012.
The 35-year-old finished her international career with 160 caps, scoring three goals, including a winner in the semi-final en route to winning the Women’s World Cup in 2015, and assisting 21.
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Thank you Kelley O’Hara for the impact that you left on the league. We can t wait to watch the rest of your season.
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Serhiy Rebrov believes will nation is display the spirit of Ukraine in their Euro 2024 opener against Romania on Monday.
Ukraine qualified for the tournament in Germany despite being invaded by Russia, beating Iceland in a play-off to secure their spot in Germany.
Ukraine reached the quarter finals of Euro 2024 and are looking to do better this some around.
Rebrov believes his time will take spirit into the competition, telling reporters: All the players, me personally, are getting lots of messages from our fighters, from our soldiers, from our friends who are now fighting for the freedom of Ukraine.
I am sure they are very proud of us, we are very proud of them. They are telling [us], when you are here show the spirit of Ukraine. This tournament is real…
Luka Modric has rejected the notion Real Madrid are clear favourites to beat Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final, describing the game as 50-50 .
Modric could win his sixth Champions League title on Saturday, when Madrid take on Dortmund in the showpiece game of the European club season at Wembley Stadium.
With Madrid finishing 10 points clear of Barcelona at the top of LaLiga and Dortmund limping to a fifth-place finish in the Bundesliga, Los Blancos have been touted as overwhelming favourites.
Modric, however, does not see things that way.
Everyone is saying that we re the favourites, but it s not like that, I see a 50-50, Modric said.
Dortmund are a big club, they have had a great season in the Champions League and they will make i…
France international Bacary Sagna has revealed he is still very upset about losing the Euro 2016 final 1-0 to Portugal.
Eder s extra-time goal handed the title to Portugal after the hosts struggled to break Cristiano Ronaldo s side down at the Stade de France.
Sagna, who is still on holiday after the European Championship, said he still thinks about the final regularly.
I m very upset, Sagna was quoted by the Sun as telling reporters in Romania.
I m thinking about it every day. But that s football. You have to accept losing. I cried after the final because it was a big chance for me to win the competition with my country.
Portugal won despite their captain and talisman Ronaldo limping off in the first half and Sagna said he felt bad for the R…
Switzerland qualified for the Euro 2024 quarter-finals and ended Italy s title defence with a richly deserved 2-0 victory in Berlin, with Ruben Vargas contributing a goal and an assist.
Vargas curled a wonderful shot home from the corner of the penalty area just 27 seconds into the second half, having earlier supplied the cross from which Remo Freuler opened the scoring.
If anything, the scoreline flattered Italy, who produced another miserable performance after barely scraping through Group B with a 99th-minute equaliser in their last game against Croatia.
The result means Spain remain the only team to win back-to-back European Championships (in 2008 and 2012), with Luciano Spalletti s first tournament as Azzurri boss ending in disappointment.
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