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Italy convincing in 3-0 win over Turkey in Euro 2020 tournament opener

Italy waited a long time for this European Championship to start and then showed Friday just how eager the team was to play the tournament opener

De Bruyne to miss Belgium's game against Russia at Euro 2020

Belgium coach Roberto Martinez said Friday he expects the Manchester City midfielder to join full training with the squad when the players return to their training camp in Tubize, near Brussels

Spain vaccinates Euro 2020 soccer team after outbreak scare

Worried that a Covid outbreak could derail its chances at Euro 2020, Spain sent in the army on Friday to vaccinate the national soccer team three days before its opening match at the tournament

Scotland to take knee vs. England at Uefa Euro 2020

Scotland's players will take a knee at the European Championship before the game against England in London but will stand ahead of matches in Glasgow against the Czech Republic and Croatia. The England team has been doing the anti-racism gesture since last year. Scotland captain Andy Roberton says we have collectively decided to again take the knee as a team for the fixture against England at Wembley Stadium. The match will be played on June 18. The gesture has been booed by a section of England fans but the team will continue to take a knee at Euro 2020. England's first game of the tournament will be on Sunday against Croatia.

Euro 2020 opening marks return of mega-scale sports events

Postponed by a year, the biggest sporting event since the coronavirus brought the world to a halt kicks off Friday at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome a milestone both for European and world sports. The opening match of soccer's European Championship will be played in the capital of Italy, the first country outside Asia to get struck by the pandemic and the first in the world to implement a nationwide lockdown. The tournament represents a major step forward on the path toward recovery after one of the darkest chapters in the continent's history since World War II. More than 1 million Europeans have died in the pandemic, including almost 127,000 Italians. After everything that's happened, now the situation is improving, I think the time has come to start providing fans with something to be satisfied about, said Italy coach Roberto Mancini, who tested positive for COVID-19 in November but was asymptomatic. The tournament was postponed last March when countries were scrambling to contain

Wales travel far to take on Switzerland in Baku at Uefa Euro 2020

From schoolboy to the national team, Dylan Levitt has come a long way since Wales went a long way at the last European Championship. The Welsh reached the semifinals at Euro 2016 in their tournament debut, inspiring the likes of Levitt to work his way into the team for this year's edition. Growing up watching that team, watching the games in the school hall. Every game, if I wasn't in school I'd be watching it with my mates and my family, the 20-year-old Wales winger said Wednesday. I don't get bored with (hearing about) it really, I just want to remake it. Watching those games gave me more hunger to be in the next tournament. Levitt and his teammates, a group that includes including Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey, will open their Euro 2020 campaign on Saturday against Switzerland in faraway Azerbaijan. Baku is nearly 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles) from Wales on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Azerbaijan allows foreign fans to make the journey despite the pandemic, but there will be

De Bruyne to miss Belgium's game against Russia at Euro Cup 2021

Kevin De Bruyne will not play for Belgium in Saturday's opening group game against Russia at the European Championship because he is still following an individual training program

Italy to Turkey: Here's the squad of all 24 teams in Euro Cup 2021

Two of the biggest football powerhouses in the world, Germany and Spain, will be aiming to cover some of the lost ground in the last few years

Football and cricket: The colour of equity

In tackling racism, the alleged gentleman's game can learn from the working class sport of football

Copa America 2021 full schedule, match time, squads, live telecast in India

Copa America 2021 will kick start on June 14 from 2:30 am IST. Sony Sports Network will live telecast Copa America in India. Check Copa America groups, squads, match timing and live streaming in India

Ukraine's Euro 2020 shirt to keep Crimea design, lose slogan

Ukraine must modify its team shirt for the European Championship after UEFA on Thursday upheld part of a Russian complaint about slogans and a map that included Crimea. The yellow-and-blue shirt design unveiled on Sunday angered Russian officials by including an outline of Ukraine's land territory with the Crimea region which Russia annexed in 2014. The fresh UEFA ruling allows the map to stay on the shirt, in line with international law which recognizes the Russian annexation as illegal. However, one of the two slogans woven into the inside of the shirt collar Glory to the heroes must be removed. Glory to Ukraine can remain visible on the back of the shirt's neck. Russian lawmakers linked the two slogans together as being used by Ukrainian nationalists, some of whom fought with the Nazis against the Soviet Union in World War II. UEFA said it approved Glory to the heroes last December, separate from the other slogan which was allowed two years earlier. Following further analysi

Paris Saint-Germain signs Georginio Wijnaldum until 2024

Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on Thursday announced the transfer of Georginio Wijnaldum.Arriving from Liverpool, the Netherlands international midfielder has signed with the club from the French capital until June 30, 2024."Signing for Paris Saint-Germain is a new challenge for me," explained Georginio Wijnaldum after signing his contract in an official release issued by PSG."I'm joining one of the best squads in Europe and I want to bring all my desire and commitment to this ambitious project. Paris Saint-Germain have proved how good they are in recent years and I am convinced that together, with our supporters, we can go even further and higher," he added.Born in Rotterdam, and a product of the Sparta Rotterdam youth academy, he played for two of the biggest clubs in his homeland in Feyenoord (135 matches, 25 goals) and then PSV Eindhoven (154 matches, 56 goals) with whom he won the 2014-15 Eredivisie title.After a season at Newcastle United, 'Gini' joined Liverpool FC in ..

Fans are allowed at Uefa Euro 2020, even if stadiums aren't full

A full house doesn't mean a full stadium for this year's coronavirus-impacted European Championship. All 11 host cities from Glasgow to St. Petersburg, and Sevilla to Bucharest have agreed to allow at least some fans into their stadiums for Euro 2020 matches. Restrictions related to the pandemic, however, could still affect the final numbers even with the tournament set to open on Friday in Rome. The most should be in the east, with Budapest, Baku and St. Petersburg expected to fill between 50% and 100% of capacity. In Hungary, that means a possible 68,000 fans the full stadium capacity for the Puskas Arena could be there to watch matches involving the host nation taking on both Cristiano Ronaldo and European champion Portugal, and Kylian Mbappe and World Cup champion France. Portugal and France will also play each other in the city, on June 23, with advancement to the round of 16 possibly on the line. Baku and St. Petersburg want their stadiums half full. In Azerbaijan, that

6 Premier League clubs fined 22 mn pounds for involvement in Super League

The six Premier League clubs, who had signed up to play in the breakaway European Super League, have agreed to pay a fine of 22 million pounds

Euro Cup 2021: Spain expands parallel squad after 2nd player tests positive

Spain expanded its parallel squad on Wednesday after Diego Llorente became the second player infected with the coronavirus ahead of the European Championship

Euro Cup 2021 full schedule, match time, live broadcast, streaming in India

The Euro Cup 2021 will kick start on June 12 from 12:30 am IST. Sony Sports Network will live telecast Euro 2020 in India. Check Uefa Euro 2020 groups, timing and live streaming in India

Sony Sports Network to live broadcast Euro Cup 2021, Copa America in India

Sony Sports network will live telecast Euro Cup 2021 and Copa America in six languages, namely English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam

Chhetri overtakes Messi, one goal away from entering all-time top-10

Indian football talisman Sunil Chhetri has surpassed Argentina's global superstar Lionel Messi to become the second-highest active international goal-scorer with 74 strikes

Spain, Portugal draw 0-0 in front of nearly 15,000 fans in Madrid

Watched by almost 15,000 fans, Spain and Portugal drew 0-0 in Madrid in a warm-up match for the European Championship which attracted the biggest crowd for any event in Spain since start of pandemic

Jair Bolsonaro wants Copa America in Brazil; Sergio Aguero casts doubts

Argentina forward Sergio Aguero has cast doubt on holding the Copa America just hours after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pushed ahead with late plans to host the tournament