Football

Quique Setien suffered his first defeat as Barcelona manager as Valencia claimed their first home win over the Spanish champions since 2007. The hosts broke the deadlock when Jordi Alba deflected Maxi Gomez’s powerful strike past Marc-Andre ter Stegen. Gomez, who had a first-half penalty saved by Ter Stegen, completed the scoring in the second half. There were unsavoury scenes ...

Arsenal overcame David Luiz’s dismissal against his old club to twice come from behind against Chelsea in an eventful London derby. The Gunners looked beaten when Jorginho fired Chelsea ahead from the penalty spot after Luiz was shown a straight red card for bundling over Tammy Abraham. The Chelsea forward had pounced on a terrible backpass by Shkodran Mustafi and ...

Karachi:A total of eight boys and six girls teams are featuring in two respective U-14 Inter-School leagues here at Haque Academy School Ground. Leisure Leagues is organizing these six-a-side football leagues separately for U-14 girls and boys in collaboration with Haq Academy with an aim to promote healthy activities especially football among youngsters. In the girls’ league, Bay View School ...

Marcus Rashford marked his 200th Manchester United appearance in style by scoring twice as the Red Devils returned to winning ways by easily despatching bottom-of-the-table Norwich. Rashford, 22, became the third youngest player to reach the landmark for the club and opened the scoring in the first half by stabbing home Juan Mata’s deep cross to the back post. United ...

LONDON: Former England captain Wayne Rooney has revealed a gambling addiction threatened to damage his glittering career. Rooney, who made his debut for Championship side Derby this week, said he was sucked in by his initial success as a gambler. Manchester United’s record goalscorer then lost large amounts of money and started “chasing his bets” to try and win it ...

Karachi: Young Almas Football Club overcame Young Kharotabad Football Club on penalty kicks in the climax of Quetta District League Football Championship (Division-A) at Sardar Yar Muhammad Bareach Football Ground in Quetta. During the regulation time, both teams seemingly put their best as the score-line remained leveled at 2-2 when the referee blew the final whistle. However, Young Almas FC ...

Peshawar: Peshawar’s Tehmas Khan Stadium witnessed two historic games of football today. The two semifinals of Ufone Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Football tournament were played amongst the presence of local audience. Before the semifinals, the players, officials and the organizers observed a minute’s silence to show solidarity with the martyrs of Army Public School incident. The first game was played between Peshawar ...

Karachi: After starting a league at Happy Home Society Campus recently, Leisure Leagues has started the second six-a-side football league at the school’s Gulshan Campus as well. A total of eight teams from the school are featuring in the tournament and each team with play two games with every other team in the league. So far, Leisure Leagues has signed ...

Karachi:Leisure Leagues has collaborated with Happy Homes School and is organizing Leisure Leagues – Happy Home six-a-side football league at the school’s Society Campus. A total of eight teams from the school are featuring in the tournament and each team with play two games with every other team in the league. A key Leisure Leagues official Shahroze Rizvi said that ...

Peshawar: Ufone Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Football Tournament’s city qualifiers have concluded in all the 21 cities. City champions from Swabi, Chitral and Bannu have been decided in addition to Swat, Buner, Kohat, Hangu, Karak, Upper and Lower Dir, Nowshera, Charssadda, Lakki Marwat, D.I. Khan, Tank, Mansehra, Haripur, Abbottabad, Peshawar, Mardan and Malakand. The 21 city champions will face each other within ...