#www.espn.com soccer

[wosobronze]

so we was right, we saw Lucy whisper into Ona’s ear after she spoke to Sonia LOL

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40836112/lucy-bronze-wants-sixth-champions-league-chelsea-move

that’s crazy that they literally had that chat on the pitch after she’d just won a champions league with barça😭

here’s a video that’s also linked with this interview for anyone who wants to see💕

[uswnt5]

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40933449/christen-press-transformative-journey-back-injury

[woso-dreamzzz]

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/42095376/espn-2024-best-50-women-soccer-players-ranked-world

Thoughts?? maybe if some of the teens made the list and some of the kids opinions?

-🐺

Mcdreamy, Mignon and Sniper are all definitely on the list

Cub is horrified Ingrid was so low down

Princesse was pissed that only two keepers made the list

[alexbkrieger13]

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45443667/fran-kirby-announces-england-retirement-prolong-career_nocache

Confirms that Fran didn’t make it in the Euros squad. Sarina offered her a standby position but she said, no thanks and decided to retire from international footy.

Have to respect Fran for her decision not wanting to wait around for a potential last minute call up to sit on the bench.

Yea fair play to her. That's gotta be tough

[i-am-mr-k]

Rehab, setbacks and long-buried grief: Press' transformative journey back from injury https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40933449/christen-press-transformative-journey-back-injury

[meademalove]

From here https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40500013/vivianne-miedema-man-city-transfer-prioritising-myself

Thank you Anon!

[ikram1909]

https://www.tumblr.com/ikram1909/772596465771102208/httpswwwtumblrcomikram1909772594146940747776

you’ll never guess what happened, but araujo has been injured all this time not benched. he needed surgery on his hamstring after getting injured in uruguay’s copa américa quarterfinal match against brazil back in july 2024. his initial return date was sometime in december and his first game back was jan. 4 against barbastro, so he was only really benched for about a month and if being benched for about a month because he’s still recovering from an injury is enough for him to want to move clubs then maybe he doesn’t have as strong a mentality as everyone seems to think he does.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40567777/barcelona-ronald-araujo-4-months-surgery-sources

That's what I'm saying like it hasn't been enough time for him to just decide to leave something isn't right here

[the-rookies-playbook]

What's Overtime?

September 9,2024 Rookie's Playbook

In last week's blog, I spoke about women in soccer, and while I know much about women, I don't know anything about soccer. This week, however, I thought we would dive into football, which I know even less about. I came from a very football-orientated family, so it’s safe to say my dad was heartbroken AND that you would think I would have picked up some knowledge through the years. Well if you believe that, you would be very much wrong! Today is the day I have decided to learn football rules starting with its, apparently, ever-changing overtime rules. Upon reading trusted ESPN I have found an article (https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39111637/what-nfl-rules-regular-postseason-play) depicting most of, if not all the rules that I need to familiarize myself with. The first thing that I am starting to learn is that there are two sets of overtime rules: regular season and post-season. I’m a big coin tosser, I even tossed a coin to pick my major, so I was surprised I had never heard of a coin toss being in the NFL rules. The rule, coming from the regular season, is a referee with toss a coin, and the visiting captain will call it (so polite!) to determine who will have the ball in overtime. Boom! Check! I’m already an NFL genius. Another rule from Regular that caught my eye is sudden death play! My instinct when hearing this seems unethical. I assumed that you would just play until someone is greatly injured in some kind, thankfully this is not the case. The rule means the game will continue in overtime until the winner is determined from any score. This part confuses me no matter what though because scoring is the point of the game. Duh, that is how the winner is decided. Switching over to the post-season rules, they are slightly different here because the game cannot end in a tie (unlike soccer). The first rule grab me is the loser of the coin toss in the first overtime can either decide to possess the ball or which goal to defend. I don’t mean to seem like a hater but this rule seems stupid to me. The obvious answer to me is to possess the ball because at least you now have the ball. The point of the game is to defend your goal, so why would it matter which you pick? My last rule for this riveting blog is that if the score is still tied at the end of the overtime period, then you keep playing overtime periods until a winner is determined. Now, for me, I find this unfair and reckon we should just call a tie. You are not going to see your players at their best if you just keep running them until something happens. I know we can’t have a tie but I think soccer is right in that department is all I’ll say. Maybe that’s why you just keep playing, so you can play on your opponent's weakness and be the hero. As I have stated many times, I am not interested in football and have no knowledge of it whatsoever. However, this has piqued my interest in some ways, I think my curiosity just wants to see if I can see the rules on the field and recognize them. This might be the year I might sit down and watch a match with my dad.

[donfermin]

https://www.tumblr.com/donfermin/748663597584007168

Tebas is an actual dumbfuck. I can only imagine how exhausting it’ll be on the players to have travel from Spain to America for league games, but also the idea is just overall stupid. Not to mention that this whole endeavor probably isn’t cheap, but Tebas would rather do something dumb like expand LaLiga which is Spanish football into America, like where’s the correlation? Over spending the money to get goal line technology. It’s not even the first time he brought up this stupid idea, however, the first time around it was shut down by the RFEF and FIFA.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40016223/laliga-play-fixtures-us-soon-2025-26-tebas

We live in a capitalistic world, so of course money > logic. Unfortunately for the whole world, the North American market is indeed very profitable and, since their own league is basically a retirement home, they need to buy another league and ruin all the fun for everyone else.

It just doesn't make any sense, not even from a logistic point of view. Traveling back and forth between Europe and the USA on a regular basis (even once every two months) is not feasible and it will put players at risk of injuries and extreme fatigue. We are talking about a 10-12-hours flight, not to mention the different time zones and weather conditions that can have an impact on a person's health. It's just not safe for the players. Especially for teams in the top 4, since they have to compete in CL as well.

I also think this will not work, because yes, many people would love to see clubs like Barça or Atletico, let alone a real El Clasico and not a friendly one, but who would want to go to a Cadiz vs Getafe or an Almeria vs Rayo Vallecano in America? Nothing against these clubs, but Americans don't even know who they are...

Unfortunately, we are in the hands of a psychopath who would even sell his mother for a few pennies, so I don't have any hopes for the future 😭

[wosobronze]

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40844980/big-sister-lucy-bronze-chelsea-mentoring-helping-wsl-grow

this is the most lucy quote ever😭

[uswnt5]

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37588069/press-heath-man-united-jerseys-outsell-men-first-three-days

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54479017

how powerful they are, do they even know?

oh they know!

[saywhatiwants]

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/38403657/bellingham-told-greenwood-play-laliga-getafe-manager

Girl you think this true?

was expecting no one to send this since I’ve seen and spoken bout it on twitter so I can enjoy my peace here😭😭😂 but tbh no cause those two aren’t friends, never played together, unfollowed Mason soon as the whole abuse thing came about from what I’ve been told. Jude also hasn’t even been in Madrid for 4 months to be recommending a club he don’t know about to that disgusting individual this has PR written all over it cause why wait till he has a week before he makes his debut at the club to put out something like this United and getafe knows what their doing especially with all the shit that their dealing with…managers tends to use other players names a lot for PR and we’ve seen how Jude’s name has been used since he joined Madrid and especially that whole made up BILD article about him from Dortmund so hope he debunks this one also cause this is huge and can ruin his reputation and I said before that all eyes is on him there are bound to be lots of shits coming his way especially when ur in a big club as Madrid but u always have to remember we don’t know these people that we like and support behind our screens at all we see what we see from what they give us so we never know truly.

[alexbkrieger13]

P only 43? Are they cazy?

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/42095376/espn-2024-best-50-women-soccer-players-ranked-world

Espn's list is literally the dumbest list

The photo is fab though

[missbluee]

https://www.tumblr.com/missbluee/787151845620678656/httpswwwtumblrcommissbluee785373832568619008

well actually i was asking because if you did then that likely means you don’t know about this, or i hope you didn’t.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6356571/2025/05/14/real-madrid-raul-asencio-investigation/

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45152239/madrids-asencio-charged-explicit-video

thanks for reaching out and sharing this. i honestly wasn't aware of any of this and i really appreciate the heads up. 🤍

[gabbysthoughts4thots]

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45588803/spain-federation-changes-refs-real-madrid-controversy

oh perfect are we getting former madrid players now.

Next season will be so fun! Said no one ever

[fadingsunsjvj]

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45508088/mexico-president-sheinbaum-ice-gold-cup-los-angles