⚽ General Football News 2021-22 Season- Open Thread

Cristiano Ronaldo equals Sergio Ramos tonight as the most capped European player in history! (180 games)

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Mason Greenwood was on the scoresheet as a Manchester United XI lost 4-3 to Stoke City in a behind closed doors friendly at Old Trafford on Wednesday.

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OFFICIAL: Olivier Giroud has tested positive for COVID-19

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Chelsea FC manager Thomas Tuchel insists Callum Hudson-Odoi must patiently wait for his chance to play for the team and there is no need to feel sorry for him.

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Mario Mandzukic has retired from football at 35 years of age. The Croatian used to play for Bayern, Atletico, Juventus, Milan, and many other clubs

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He announced his statement on social media:

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Arsene Wenger has called for a dramatic overhaul of international football that would see the FIFA World Cup taking place every two years from 2028.

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Camilo Echeverry Correa is a Colombian singer and the artist behind the ‘KESI’ track that has become an official LaLiga Santander anthem for the 2021/22 season.

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Real Madrid’s Champions League campaign starts in under two weeks with a trip to face Inter at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan, so Carlo Ancelotti can now start looking ahead to his return to the place he once called home.

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Robbie Keane believes the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo at Manchester United will take the young England players at Old Trafford to the next level.

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Greenwood wins Man United’s August Player of the Month award .

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Vinicius Junior surpassed 200 appearances as a professional footballer in Brazil’s victory over Chile on Thursday evening.

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Romelu Lukaku has attempted to make peace with Inter Milan fans angry at his departure from the club.

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Manchester United are reportedly close to unveiling a successor to outgoing chief executive Ed Woodward.

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OFFICIAL: Brazil vs Argentina is suspended

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Philippe Coutinho has struggled to establish himself at Barcelona since his arrival in 2018 and is still far from being a first-team regular. This is in spite of the fact that he is now fully recovered from his injury and that Ronald Koeman views him as a key player.

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Brazil v Argentina abandoned as health authorities invade pitch

A World Cup qualifier between Argentina and Brazil was abandoned amid farcical, confused scenes after four Premier League players apparently violated Brazilian regulations designed to contain a Covid outbreak that has killed more than 580,000 Brazilians.

The Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez and Tottenham’s Cristian Romero and Giovani Lo Celso were all on the pitch at São Paulo’s Neo Química Arena on Sunday afternoon when federal police and officials from Brazil’s health agency, Anvisa, took to the field to halt play after just seven minutes.

The three players and Aston Villa’s Emiliano Buendía, who was in the stands, had reportedly somehow sidestepped Brazilian rules stating that travellers who have been in the UK, South Africa or India during the previous 14 days are forbidden from entering the country, unless they are Brazilian citizens or have permanent residency.

“We are being humiliated on the world stage. What is happening is profoundly regrettable,” the Brazilian commentator Galvão Bueno lamented as bemused looking players, including Neymar and Lionel Messi, stood on the pitch waiting to find out if the game would be restarted. Several minutes later it was officially suspended.

The Argentina manager, Lionel Scaloni, claimed that at no moment had his team been told the game could not be played.

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Paul Pogba on Cristiano Ronaldo:

"It’s always a pleasure to play with the best, it’s a plus for the players to be able to train with a great player.

“He’s going to raise the level of the team.” [Telefoot] :muscle:

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Sergio Busquets on the idea of having a World Cup every two years :triumph:

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Former France and PSG defender Jean-Pierre Adams has died at the age of 73, after being in a coma for the past 39 years.

In 1982, Adams was administered a near-fatal dose of anaesthetic ahead of a routine knee operation and never regained consciousness.

RIP :pray:

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