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Madrid: Sevilla winger Bryan Gil has dropped out of the Spain squad for the forthcoming Euro 2024 qualifying matches against Norway and Scotland, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) confirmed Thursday. Gil, who is on loan at Sevilla from Tottenham Hotspur, suffered "muscle problems" in training...

New Delhi: Indian women's hockey team midfielder Salima Tete has been honoured with the AHF Emerging Player of the Year Award for her brilliant performance in 2022. The 20-year-old was presented with the award at the Asian Hockey Federation's (AHF) Annual General Meeting in Mungyeong,...

Zurich: FIFA set a timeline to pick the 2027 Women's World Cup host, giving would-be candidates one month to join the contest ahead of a vote in May next year. Brazil, South Africa and a co-hosting project by Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany have previously...

London: India women's team captain Harmanpreet Kaur will play for Trent Rockets while her deputy Smriti Mandhana will turn out for Southern Brave in this year's The Hundred cricket tournament. While Harmanpreet was signed by Trent Rockets at The Hundred draft held Thursday, Mandhana was...

Buenos Aires: Messi mania gripped Buenos Aires as the Argentina national team led by Lionel Messi beat Panama 2-0 in a friendly match that was essentially a celebration of their World Cup victory last December. Although the world champions dominated the game, they didn't get...

Manchester: The proposed sale of Manchester United gathered pace Thursday when British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe said he had submitted a second bid for the iconic soccer team. American merchant bank Raine had given bidders more time to fine-tune proposals by extending Wednesday night's deadline for...

Naples: Harry Kane has broken Wayne Rooney's England scoring record with his 54th goal for the national team. Kane converted a penalty kick toward the end of the first half of a European Championship qualifier against Italy Thursday at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium. The...

Basel: Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu failed to defend her Swiss Open Super 300 badminton title as she was shocked by unseeded Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia in a thrilling three-game women's singles second-round match here. World no.9 Sindhu, seeded fourth here, was stunned 15-21...

New Delhi: Ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 that begins from March 31, Ashneer Grover's new venture Third Unicorn has launched a fantasy sports app called CrickPe that aims to take on Dream11 and Mobile Premier League (MPL). "Biggest revolution in Cricket since...

Lisbon: Cristiano Ronaldo became the most-capped player in men's international soccer Thursday. Ronaldo started in Portugal's European qualifier against Liechtenstein to make his 197th appearance with the national team, breaking a tie with Kuwait's Bader Al-Mutawa. Ronaldo had tied Al-Mutawa with 196 caps after coming...