Mexico dominate USA to retain their Gold Cup title
Mexico 2 USA 1
July 6 – In front of a sold-out crowd of 70,925 in the NRG Stadium in Houston, Mexico beat the USA 2-1 to win the 2025 Gold Cup.
Women's Euro 2025
Girelli strike edges Italy towards knock-outs
Italy 1 Portugal 1
July 7 – Italy edged closer to the Women’s Euro quarter-finals after a 1-1 draw with Portugal at the Stade de Genève, in a match defined by moments of individual brilliance and late drama.
Other Stories
Rangers deny Bury takeover
By Andrew Warshaw
June 21 – Debt-ridden Scottish giants Rangers have denied a report that they plan to re-emerge as an English club by taking over third-tier team Bury.
English FA handed €5,000 fine for “inappropriate conduct” at Euro 2012
By Andrew Warshaw
June 21 – The English Football Association (FA) has been fined a token €5,000 (£4,000/$6,000) by UEFA for the “inappropriate conduct” of a small group of fans in Friday’s (June 15) European Championship win over Sweden.
Drogba heads to Shanghai
By David Owen
June 21 – Didier Drogba, the Ivorian striker who starred in Chelsea’s recent European Champions League victory, has confirmed his long-expected move to Shanghai Shenhua of China.
Socceroos’ first captain honoured with retrospective awarding of cap number one
By Stuart Newman
June 21 – The first ever captain of Australia’s national football team, the late Alex Gibb, has been honoured in a special ceremony during the recent FIFA 2014 World Cup Asian qualifying match between the hosts and Japan in Brisbane, which ended 1-1.
Mihir Bose: Sport, particularly football, should not be served up as the panacea to society’s inherent racial ills
The European Championship once again raises the question of whether we are right in believing that sport, and in particular football, can reach out to society in the way nothing else can. The answer so far from the Euros is a chilling one: those of us who believe in the redemptive power of modern sport need to re-examine our beliefs – or at least ask if we do not need to prepare much better before we burden sport with this heavy load of transforming society.
Nike Twitter advertising campaign banned by watchdog following Rooney and Wilshere tweets
By Lauren Mattera
June 21 – Nike has become the first United Kingdom company to have a Twitter campaign banned following tweets from leading English footballers Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere which were deemed as breaching advertising rules.
Detained Palestinian player ends hunger strike in exchange for release
By Andrew Warshaw
June 21 – Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Sarsak, who has been on hunger strike in protest at being held in an Israeli jail without charge, has agreed to resume eating in exchange for early release, according to his lawyer.
Goal-line technology is no longer an alternative but a necessity, insists Blatter
By Andrew Warshaw
June 20 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter has renewed his call for the introduction of goal-line technology following Ukraine’s disallowed goal in the 1-0 defeat by England that saw the joint hosts tumbling out of the 2012 European Championship.
Italy hands out point deductions and five-year bans to match-fixers
By Andrew Warshaw
June 20 – Italy may have progressed to the last eight of the 2012 European Championship but off the field the image of the game has taken another damaging blow after the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) announced it had upheld newly promoted Pescara’s two-point deduction and banned four players for five years over the country’s match-fixing scandal.
FIFA heads to Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod as Russia 2018 host cities inspection continues
By Andrew Warshaw
June 20 – With three months to go until the Russian cities bidding to host the 2018 World Cup learn their fate, a FIFA inspection delegation has moved on to Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, two of the lesser-known prospective venues.
Official Draw Ceremony date set for 2012 under-17 Women’s World Cup
By Tom Degun
June 20 – Azerbaijan 2012 has revealed that the Official Draw Ceremony for the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup will take place on July 6 at the International Mugam Centre (pictured) in Baku.
Andrew Warshaw: IFAB giving the OK to goal-line technology cannot come soon enough
What goes around comes around. Ever since Frank Lampard was denied a clear goal when he crashed a shot against the underside of Germany’s crossbar at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the clamour for goal-line technology has become increasingly louder.
Fast forward two years to the 2012 European Championship in Donetsk last night and that clamour has now become a deafening roar.
This time England were the ones that had all the luck.
Puma leaps ahead in Euro 2012 battle of the brands
By David Owen
June 20 – Puma is setting the early pace in the battle of the big sporting brands at the 2012 European Championship.
Croats punished following Balotelli racial abuse at Euro 2012
By Andrew Warshaw
June 19 – The Croatian Football Federation has been fined €80,000 (£64,500/$101,500) after Italy striker Mario Balotelli was racially abused by a section of its fans at the 2012 European Championships.
FIFA extends worldwide match-fixing sanctions
By Andrew Warshaw
June 19 – FIFA today extended worldwide a series of sanctions meted out to 13 individuals from South Korea and Croatia related to match-fixing.