Guatemala 0-1 Panama:
June 20 – Friday night at Q2 Stadium bore no resemblance to the venue that hosted football just 24 hours earlier. The transformation was complete, and the catalyst was simple: unbridled passion provided by the hordes of Guatemala supporters who descended on Austin. Stark contrast to the lack of interest shown by US fans on Thursday.
November 3 – UK football charity, the Football Foundation, has launched its new ‘Power Up Your Grass Pitch’ campaign, with the ambition goals of reaching over 7,000 ‘good quality’ grass pitches by 2024 and 20,000 by 2030.
By Samindra Kunti
November 2 – Italy’s Antonio Conte has become the Tottenham Hotspur manager on a contract reportedly worth £20 million and taking him through to June 2023. He replaces Nuno Espírito Santo, the London club’s second consecutive Portuguese coach to be sacked.
November 2 – FIFA has won the dismissal of a lawsuit by former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia in a New York court, after Siasia challenged his match-fixing ban.
November 2 – Sports marketing agency Sportfive has picked up the commercial rights to Nigeria’s top tier league and the country’s national teams in a two-year contract starting this year.
November 2 – UEFA have hit Germany’s Union Berlin with a partial stadium closure for the antisemitic behaviour of some of its fans towards supporters of Israeli club Maccabi Haifa.
November 2 – Hungary and Mexico have been sanctioned by FIFA over persistent fan disorder at their World Cup qualification matches following the October international window.
November 2 – Veteran goalscorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic claimed another record Sunday, being the first player to have a goal celebration turned into an NFT (non-fungible token) ‘minted’ live during the game.
November 2 – Argentine striker Sergio Aguero will not play for three months after suffering chest pains against Alaves on Saturday, his club Barcelona have announced.
November 2 – Concacaf’s head of football operations, Karina LeBlanc, has been named general manager of American NWSL club Thorns FC.
November 2 – Premier League Liverpool FC (LFC) announced have partnered with mobile game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile in a deal that will see Liverpool’s marks introduced into the game.
November 1 – Sportradar has signed a deal with UEFA to be the European confederation’s exclusive betting data distributor. The agreement also makes Sportradar UEFA’s authorised data collector.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 1 – After bringing in Nuno Espirito Santo last summer to replace compatriot Jose Mourinho , promising he would “revert back to our core DNA of playing attacking, entertaining football”, Tottenham Hotspur duly sacked their latest Portuguese manager today, leaving themselves open – not for the first time – to widespread criticism as the search resumes for the right man to take the club forward.
November 1 – Intercity de Alicante has become the first Spanish club to list on the stock exchange, trading on the BME Growth market, Spain’s second tier exchange dedicated to small- and medium-sized companies.
November 1 – Everton Women have brought in Jean-Luc Vasseur as their manager in a two-and-a-half-year deal to lift the team’s fortunes.
November 1 – The Qatar Football Association and Generation Amazing have linked with Aurora Training and Development to create One Goal Arabia – a broad youth development programme aimed at covering the Arab world.