⚽ General Football News 2022-23 Season- Open Thread

LA Galaxy and LAFC will open their 2023 MLS season at the Rose Bowl.

Galaxy return to where they played their first MLS game in 1996 at the 90K-seater stadium :stadium:

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BREAKING: Former Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi has officially announced his retirement from football.

:nigeria: x 91 International Caps :billed_cap:
:soccer: x6 International Goals.
1 AFCON (2013) :trophy:
1 Olympic Bronze (2016) :3rd_place_medal:
1 Champions League :trophy:
2 EPL :trophy::trophy:
1 Europa League :trophy:
3 FA Cups :trophy::trophy::trophy:
1 League Cup :trophy:
1 Community Shield :trophy:
1 Turkish Cup :trophy:

An Iconic Career comes to an End

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Former Manchester City, Aston Villa and Everton midfielder Fabian Delph has officially announced his retirement from football as player.

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The USMNT wearing their World Cup away kit for the first time :us:

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Neymar is calling in help to break Pele’s record :sweat_smile:

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8 posts were merged into an existing topic: :soccer: Who has impressed you so far at the international break?

BREAKING: Mikel John Obi retires from football :clap::trophy:

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Raphinha in the first half vs. Tunisia:

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:gift:
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FULL-TIME
:brazil: BRAZIL ( 5 ) :vs: ( 1 ) TUNISIA :tunisia:

:soccer: GOAL + ASSIAT :a:

Raphinha :soccer::soccer::a:
Richarlison :soccer::a:
Neymar :soccer: :crown:
Pedro :soccer:
Casemiro :a:

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The USMNT registered only two shots on target over 180 minutes.

Next stop: World Cup :eyes:

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Neymar joins Pelé and Messi as the only three South American players to score 75+ international goals :star2:

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Richarlison has now scored the same amount of goals for Brazil as Roberto Firmino (17), in 17 fewer appearances. :brazil:

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Zero goals scored in their final two warm-up games.

USMNT fans heading into the World Cup:

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Aleksandar Mitrovic has scored 50 international goals in 76 games :star2:

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Brazil have scored at least 3 goals in 6 of their last 7 matches.

World Cup form :white_check_mark::trophy:

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As Ramires announces his official retirement, we remember one of the coldest goals he scored for Chelsea in the Champions League.

Iconic :fire:

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Players with the most titles in Champions League history. :clap::fire:

Real Madrid’s domination in the biggest competition is just unbelievable! :raised_hands::es:

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Jurgen Klopp winning ‘The Best Coach 2020’ for just winning the league over Hansi Flick, who won the sextuple has to be the biggest disrespect in football history… :eyes::fire:

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:white_check_mark: 𝗝𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝘀 3-1 HB Køge (agg)
:white_check_mark: 𝗣𝗦𝗚 4-1 Häcken (agg)
:white_check_mark: 𝗔𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹 3-2 Ajax (agg)
:white_check_mark: 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗱 5-1 Rosenborg (agg)

Europe’s big clubs make it through to the UWCL group stage :100:

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Neymar for Brazil and PSG this season:

:soccer:12 goals
:a:10 assists
:white_check_mark: Leads Ligue 1 in goals and assists

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