Football

Spain’s World Cup winning striker Fernando Torres announced his retirement from football on Friday, bringing an end to a glittering 18-year career. Torres, who scored more than 100 goals across two spells at his boyhood club Atletico Madrid, also played for Premier League sides Liverpool and Chelsea and Italy’s AC Milan. He left Atletico to join Japan’s Sagan Tosu in ...

Karachi: Two eight-team leagues have simultaneously commenced as a part of Leisure Leagues at Malir Cantonment’s Major Shabbir Shareef Shaheed Football Stadium. Prior to the commencement of the two leagues, a festival match for women was also organized in an effort to promote small-sided football among both genders. The festival match was played between MLO and GFA teams. The regulation ...

Brazil striker Cristiane became the oldest person to score a World Cup hat-trick as her treble handed debutants Jamaica a 3-0 loss. The South American champions were missing legendary forward Marta, the all-time leading scorer in Women’s World Cups, through injury in Grenoble. But they got their Group C campaign off to a flying start as Cristiane headed the first ...

In a dramatic turn of events, a rape case filed against Juventus star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has been dropped, a media report said. In September 2018, Katheryn Mayorga had filed a lawsuit alleging Ronaldo for sexual harassment and rape in a penthouse in the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The incident went back to June 2009 when he ...

Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) President Ashfaq Shah and officials meet with FIFA and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) delegation, which is in Pakistan on a fact finding mission to resolve PFF issues. The mission which was led by head of MA Governance FIFA Luca Nicola, Senior Manager MA Governance and Services FIFA Alexander Holt, Deputy Director Legal AFC Andrew Mercer and ...

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be a 32-team tournament as originally planned, FIFA has announced. The world governing body had considered expanding its showpiece event to 48 teams but has now determined this is not practical. FIFA shelved a proposed expansion of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to 48 teams on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the ...

Islamabad, May 25: Thailand Embassy team recorded a 1-0 victory against their Nigerian counterparts in Pakistan in the final of Six-a-Side Leisure Leagues for Diplomats here at Jinnah Stadium. Thailand Embassy fielded two teams in the exciting league – Thailand A and Thailand B and both teams qualified for semifinals. Thailand B defeated Thailand A by 2-0 score. Nigerian Embassy ...

Karachi: Al-Shams Football Club, Tiger Football Club and Star Football Club emerged city champions of Larkana, Kandiaro and Naushahro Feroze respectively and have subsequently qualified for the Leisure Leagues National Six-a-Side Football Championship. The three teams have one moved step forward on ‘Road to Crete’ as the winner of the National Championship will qualify to represent Pakistan in the second ...

LONDON: Manchester City crushed Watford 6-0 in the FA Cup final on Saturday to become the first team to win the English treble of league championship and both domestic cups in the most emphatic way imaginable. The victory matched the competition’s record final win — set when Bury beat Derby County 116 years ago — and was the perfect end ...

GROZNY, Russia: Mohamed Salah gave Egypt’s World Cup hopes a huge boost Wednesday when he joined a squad training session at their Grozny base. The Pharaohs’ superstar has been sidelined since suffering a shoulder injury in Liverpool´s Champions League final loss to Real Madrid on May 26. However, an AFP reporter saw the forward take part in his first training ...