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Unai Emery radiates optimism right now. With seven wins from their last eight games, Aston Villa are the coming team in the Premier League’s race for Europe. Two more wins and Champions League football could be theirs again next season.”I am really excited,” Emery tells Sky Sports. Speaking at the club’s training ground, he is in no mood for a break. “I do not want holidays now. I am really full of energy, motivated by how we are playing now, how we are competing.” But this is not about him, he insists. “What is interesting to me is how the…
It is not every day – or season – that a team finds itself preparing for a major European final. In fact, there are just three and it’s a long road to reach them. But for Tottenham Hotspur and Yves Bissouma, that is exactly where they find themselves.Spurs will face Manchester United in the Europa League final on May 21, with both looking to redeem a season that, domestically, has been disappointing. But they have somehow found a way to perform in the continental competition. Tottenham Hotspur finished fourth in the league phase – a point behind Manchester United in…
May 14, 2025, 05:32 AM ETFIFA is targeting $1 billion in revenue from the Women’s World Cup, Gianni Infantino said on Tuesday at the Saudi Arabia-U.S. Investment Forum 2025 in Riyadh.The 2023 Women’s World Cup, hosted by Australia and New Zealand, broke even after generating more than $570m in revenue.”Women’s football and women in football are crucially important,” Infantino, the global football governing body’s president, said.”It’s growing as well, and exponentially, and we are targeting that as well to have $1 billion revenue just with the Women’s World Cup to reinvest in the women’s game.”Gianni Infantio has said that the…
The short film recounts the forward’s journey from aspiring footballer in his home country of Egypt to the legendary status he has carved out at Liverpool.Now a two-time Premier League champion having spearheaded the Reds’ surge to the title in 2024-25 with 28 goals and 18 assists so far, a multitude of records have been broken by him since arriving at Anfield eight years ago.Such success did not come easily to Salah, though.In fact, his first experience of English football after joining Chelsea in January 2014 posed the biggest questions of his career, he explains.“I remember the first game I…
Reuters — The most intense clashes for years rocked Tripoli for a second night and continued into Wednesday morning, witnesses in the Libyan capital said, after Monday’s killing of a major militia leader set off fighting between rival factions. The United Nations Libya mission UNSMIL said it was “deeply alarmed by the escalating violence in densely populated neighborhoods of Tripoli” and urgently called for a ceasefire. The latest unrest in Libya’s capital could consolidate the power of Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, prime minister of the divided country’s Government of National Unity (GNU) and an ally of Turkey. Libya has had little stability…
CNN — The Indiana Pacers fought back from a 19-point, second-quarter deficit to eliminate the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers from the NBA playoffs and reach the Eastern Conference Finals for a second straight year. Tyrese Haliburton, who struggled in Games 3 and 4, posted 31 points, six rebounds and eight assists to lead the Pacers to a 114-105 win and secure the series 4-1. “I’m certainly very excited for our fans, our ownership, our city,” Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle told reporters after the game. “Winning a closeout game on the road is extremely difficult. “We were down 19 and Ty’s…
May 14, 2025, 04:00 AM ETThe PFA Young Player of the Year award is broken; it doesn’t make sense. To be eligible, you must be aged 21 or under at the start of the season, which is why the heavily established names of Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden and Cole Palmer have walked away with it in recent years. Meanwhile, the Premier League’s Young Player of the Season version is even more generous and allows anyone up to the age of 23 to be in contention, which saw a then-22-year-old Erling Haaland take it home in 2022-23.Admittedly we’ve made progress since…
Finland are hoping to impress at Euro 2025 with the help of two Tottenham midfielders. HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA/LEHTIKUVA/AFP via Getty ImagesIt was on a freezing December night in the capital of Helsinki when Olga Ahtinen and Eveliina Summanen helped Finland reach one of football’s promised lands.Both Tottenham Hotspur midfielders starred as Finland secured a 2-0 victory over Scotland in the second leg of the playoffs (the first leg finished 0-0) to book their place at this summer’s Euro 2025 tournament. Temperatures on the night dipped as low as -5 degrees Celsius (21 Fahrenheit), with piles of snow lining the perimeter of the…
May 14, 2025, 03:34 AM ETOn the latest episode of The Football Reporters podcast, Mark Ogden, Rob Dawson and James Olley discuss Arsenal’s struggles and how Mikel Arteta’s side can become a title-winning team.After twice finishing second to Manchester City in the Premier League, Arsenal have fallen short in their pursuit of the title for a third straight season, this time to Liverpool.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedThe north London side were also eliminated from the Champions League in the semifinals this campaing, losing 3-1 on aggregate to Paris Saint-Germain.After the second leg, Arteta said the best team lost despite their failure to…
Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. Tassili n’Ajjer National Park, Algeria CNN — “Labès?” (‘OK?”) asks Baba Atanof as a tourist struggles to get her leg over a large rock on a steep ascent in the Algerian Sahara Desert. Fighting jelly legs and vertigo, she can barely answer. This desert makes up 83% of Africa’s largest country. It’s the focus of a government master plan for tourism development by 2030 that aims to make Algeria a major tourist…