European soccer leaders have told teams to plan for a return to action in July and August and issued a threat by suggesting leagues that cancel the season face the risk of their teams being barred from the Champions League. The details of the next steps to deal with the fallout from European soccer seasons […] More
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Mababa “Pape” Diouf, who became the only black president of a top tier European soccer club when he was appointed to lead France’s Olympique de Marseille, died on Tuesday in Dakar, Senegal. He was 68. […] More
If you’re Tom Brady, you suddenly need a place to live in the Tampa area. And if you’re Tom Brady, a one-bedroom is probably not an option. So where else to turn but Derek Jeter’s mansion? The Tampa Bay Times reported that Brady was moving into a cozy bungalow owned by Jeter on Davis Islands […] More
We have been learning in recent days what athletes do when they’re stuck at home, including working out in creative ways. Lately, we’ve also been getting a peek at N.F.L. coaches and general managers’ activities. Sean Payton of the Saints, who had been self-quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, jumped into a Twitter thread […] More
Faced with mounting concerns and daily updates about the crisis wrought by the coronavirus on the global soccer industry, FIFA is drawing up plans for an emergency relief fund worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The fund, should it be signed off on by global soccer leaders, […] More
Sign up for Rory Smith’s weekly newsletter on world soccer (and, for the foreseeable future, quite a few other topics) at nytimes.com/rory. Watford General Hospital is a couple of minutes’ walk, no more, from Vicarage Road, the neat, slightly frayed home of the town’s representative in the Premier League. Head out of the Graham Taylor […] More
The coronavirus pandemic has upended much, but with a late summer start to the season five months away, the N.F.L. has been one of the few major professional sports leagues to avoid postponing or canceling games. With little else going on in sports, the league has doubled down on holding its annual three-day draft — […] More
With soccer’s global calendar upended by the coronavirus, FIFA is scrambling to draft new regulations for player contracts and transactions between clubs in an effort to create a road map out of the sport’s unprecedented shutdown. Lawyers at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters have huddled (virtually) with representatives from leagues, clubs and players unions to provide a […] More
