Chelsea keeps their five point lead over defending English Premier League (EPL) defending champions Manchester City despite Diego Costa sitting the game with an injury while Arsenal needed Danny Welback's heroics to pull off a draw against Hull City.
With concerns over how concussions were handled in the 2014 World Cup, the English Premier League (EPL), UEFA, and FIFA are implementing new protocols over how to handle head injuries.
This past week featured some exhilarating soccer matches in both domestic and European tournaments. From Barcelona and Real Madrid to Chelsea, a number of great teams had tremendous weeks while some flopped throughout. Here is a look at the winners and losers of the weekend.
With the 2014 World Cup now in the rear-view, Luke Dempsey's entertaining book "Club Soccer 101" helps new-school soccer fans and sports history wonks learn more about professional club teams from around the world -- including La Liga, Bundesliga, English Premier League (EPL), Liga MX, and Major League Soccer (MLS) -- with his new book further helping them understand the passion of "the beautiful game."
The opening weekend of the Premier League's season offered up some stunning surprises and terrific games. The second weekend added to the growing drama and continued with its contentious match-ups and stunning battles. Here is what was learned from the second batch of games.
Week two the Barclay's Premier League gets underway with six games on Saturday and four split between Sunday and Monday, with Liverpool, Manchester City, Everton and Arsenal all in action. Latin Post takes a look at the biggest games to look out for in week two.
The soccer world was allowed some indulgence this past weekend as the Premier League kicked off the 2014-15 season. From Manchester United to Arsenal and Liverpool, here are the big takeaways from the weekend and a look at what should be an excruciatingly tight race for the title.
The English Premier League returns to NBC on Saturday, with Manchester United opening the season against Swansea City, as the network tries to capitalize on last year's successful inaugural broadcast run and the fervor of the World Cup.
The English Premier League transfer window has been tremendously busy over the last few weeks with Manchester United looking to bounce back under new manager Louis Van Gaal, Chelsea chasing an EPL title, and Arsenal looking to make making an impression after barely missing out UEFA Champions League by three points.
While Uruguay's Luis Suarez finally apologized for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during their Group Stage game, the punishment does seem to fit the crime despite what Suarez's supporters - including Chiellini - may think of the nine-game and 4-month suspension of the polarizing 2013-2014 English Premier League (EPL) Player of the Year.
Major League Soccer (MLS) signed a new eight-year television deal with ESPN, Fox Sports and Univision worth a combined $720 million for the North American soccer league. As part of the deal, Univision gets a minimum of 34 games airing exclusively on UniMás Friday nights, exclusive rights to MLS Playoff games, the Spanish-language rights to the MLS All-Star Game, the MLS Cup, and all U.S. men's national team games across television and digital platforms.
Manchester City, which recently won their second English Premier League (EPL) title in three years, has accepted UEFA's sanctions - including a €60 million ($82,056,000 USD).
While Manchester City celebrates their second English Premier League (EPL) title in three years, the club faces a murky as they plan to appeal UEFA's sanctions against the team for failing to meet their "Financial Fair Play" requirements. Man City faces £49 million ($82,530,700 USD) fine paid over three years, a 21-player limit on next season's Champions League competition and a salary cap to the current payroll level.
Lionel Messi is the face of Barcelona. He is the team's all-time highest goal scorer and he has been the reason for the club's success over the last few years. But could he possibly be on his way out? And is Barcelona's biggest Real Madrid ready to buy him up?
