When Thousands Flooded Sevilla for the Europa League Final

Official estimates seemed deliberately magnified, exaggerated, inflated for dramatic effect, until planes began to land and the streets began to fill up. About 50,000 fans from Germany were on their way to Seville, Spain amid a fierce spring heatwave. Twice that number were traveling from Scotland. They came in every shape they could imagine, by …

Manchester City Beat Real Madrid in Champions League Semi-Finals

MANCHESTER, England — First thing Wednesday morning, Pep Guardiola’s team will provide the manager of Manchester City with a detailed report on his team’s Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid. At about the same time, his colleague in the Spanish capital, Carlo Ancelotti, will receive something very similar. These files will contain short video segments, …

How Villarreal’s Eye of Value Cracked the Champions League Code

A great way to understand how Villarreal, a football team playing in a stadium that can hold just under half of a town of just 50,000 people, found itself in the semi-finals of the Champions League is the cleaning products aisle of Spain’s leading supermarket. Supermarket, Mercadona and football club are corporate cousins. Fernando Roig, …

Conference League Is The Best European Tournament You Haven’t Been To

The roster of the first quarterfinals illustrates this perfectly. England, France and Italy – via Leicester City, Marseille and Rome – but the Czech Republic, Norway and Greece are also represented. The Dutch have two rivals: Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven. In an age where the executives of the strongest teams and the wealthiest leagues are …

Manchester City Faces Atlético Madrid in the Champions League

A lot has happened in the last 10 or 20 minutes of MADRID – Wanda Metropolitano, the last whistle long gone, almost until another standalone bonus game creates a separate third installment. planned two-part drama. There was some hair pulling. It was quite a waste of time. was there full scale fight, dozens and dozens …

Champions League Disappointment in a New Game on PSG

Paris St.-Germain has been dominating the local competition for nearly a decade, with its team growing stronger each year with signatures from expensive stars from around the world. However, the title he most coveted, the Champions League, still remains unclear. This definition, of course, applies to the Paris St.-Germain men’s football team. But it also …

Notre Dame’s Paul Atkinson Leaves Ivy League for NCAA Tournament

SAN DIEGO v Paul Atkinson Jr. had just entered St. Patrick’s Day when he scored the game-winning goal 1.4 seconds into second overtime to send Rutgers home overwhelmingly. It was the middle of the night in Dayton, Ohio, but Notre Dame Coach Mike Brey was smiling and shouting that there better be Irish whiskey on …

A Minor League Player’s Long Slogan to the Majors and a Short Comeback

Jack Kruger was about to start a new season with another minor league baseball team called the Salt Lake Bees, a Class AAA team in Utah, when his cell phone rang. “Take the first flight to Los Angeles,” his manager said. Salt Lake’s parent club, the Angels, was promoting Kruger to majors to replace a …