Fifty 50 years after the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ Congolese youths still dream to scale heights of world boxing
As Congo marks the 50th anniversary of the Rumble-in-the Jungle on Wednesday, boxing dreams live on not only in the capital, Kinshasa – where the Ali-Foreman fight happened – but also in the grassroots promotions like Nyama’s out in Goma, a city in the heart of a region that has seen decades of conflict, displacement and crisis.
Man United considers Sporting Club manager Amorim to cast bad spell from Red Devils
Ruben Amorim has shown his desire to bring young talent into the first team – including Goncalo Inacio, Matheus Nunes, Nuno Mendes and Ousmane Diomande – and has improved the team’s quality with the resources at his disposal.
How Man City’s Rodri beat Vinicius Jr to Ballon d’Or, petulant Real Madrid know he deserves it
To say that Madrid have thrown their toys out of the pram would be an understatement. Some rumours emerged on Sunday that Rodri might have edged it, but the front cover of Monday’s Marca still hailed Monday as the day that Vinicius would win the Ballon d’Or.
No hug for Erik Ten Hag as he’s tossed out, Van Nistelrooy named interim manager of hobbling Man United
United had sounded out potential replacements including now England head coach Thomas Tuchel, newly-appointed USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino, former Brighton & Hove Albion head coach Roberto De Zerbi, Brentford head coach Thomas Frank and Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna.
Miami’s Lionel Messi earned more than 22 other MLS teams’ payrolls in 2024, salary report shows
Miami, the league’s regular-season Supporters Shield champion, led the league with a record $41.7 million payroll, double all but Toronto ($31.8 million), Los Angeles FC ($22.1 million), the LA Galaxy ($22 million) and Nashville ($21.9 million).
Like father, like son: LeBron and Bronny James make history as NBA’s first father-son duo to play together
LeBron and Bronny played two-and-a-half minutes on court together, and LeBron missed two perimeter shots before making a dunk. Bronny had an early rebound and missed a tip-in. Bronny’s first NBA jump shot was a 3-pointer that came up just short. He checked out with 1:19 left in the second quarter, getting another ovation.
Rwanda accused of trying to shrug off ‘sportswashing’ by touting economic outcomes
Rwanda President Paul Kagame has built a close working relationship with Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, which has opened an office in Rwanda and held its annual meeting there last year. Now he is taking the biggest step yet in his ambition to transform the country into a global sporting power, with F1 executives confirming that they are in exploratory talks with Kagame’s government about a possible Rwandan Grand Prix.
England men’s team borrow leaf from women’s national team success, hire foreigner for Three Lions
One concern is that Thomas Tuchel’s Bayern team didn’t look much like that last season when they were beaten to the Bundesliga title for the first time in 12 campaigns. Neither did his Chelsea or PSG teams towards the end. At those three clubs, and indeed Dortmund and Mainz before that, he left in strained circumstances.
While England have hired a winner, it’s no guarantee in international football Thomas Tuchel will replicate club success
Gareth Southgate was always cast in some quarters as the reason England kept falling just short, which, after decades of falling a long way short, seemed strange. Whatever the undoubted qualities he brought to the job, it was always assumed by his critics that any half-decent coach who operates in the top half of the Premier League or the later stages of the Champions League would bring all of those plus, crucially, the hard-nosed winning mentality and hard-wired tactical expertise of a Pep Guardiola, a Carlo Ancelotti or a Jurgen Klopp.
Drab England considers hiring Man City manager Pep Guardiola, but what happens to Southgate’s ‘English DNA’ hype?
We can argue all day about whether Guardiola’s style would translate into international football, whether the England manager has enough time with the players to teach such a structured game, and whether Guardiola himself would want to leave Manchester City for a job that would pay him a fraction of his current salary.
