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HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Anti-investor protests in German soccer escalated on Friday when fans attached bicycle locks to a goal and displayed banners showing a club executive’s face in crosshairs. There have been regular protests since last year against a plan to sell a stake in marketing revenues to a private equity investor for an up-front payment. As the league …

BRUSSELS (AP) — France is siding with UEFA against closed breakaway soccer leagues. On the eve of the UEFA Congress to be held in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron and UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin expressed “their shared vision in favor of the European sporting model, based on open competitions, the principle of solidarity, sporting merit and recognition of the social …

BOSTON (AP) — Nani will enter a team in the second edition of the seven-on-seven tournament in the United States and its roster will include Mario Balotelli, his teammate on Turkey’s Adana Demirspor. Wrexham, the lower-tier Welsh club owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, participated last June in the first edition of The Soccer Tournament, a winner-take-all $1 …

LONDON (AP) — England will prepare for the European Championship by playing warmup games against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iceland in the days leading up to the tournament. It will be a first ever meeting against Bosnia-Herzegovina, with Newcastle’s St. James’ Park hosting the match on June 3. The game against Iceland will be at Wembley Stadium on June 7. Both of …

The 2026 World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, beating out Texas and California for soccer’s showcase game. FIFA awarded the July 19 championship to the $1.6 billion venue, which opened in 2010, the culminating match of an expanded 48-nation, 104-game tournament that will be spread across three nations for the first time. Located about …

MUNICH (AP) — Canadian international Alphonso Davies twisted his knee in Bayern Munich’s 3-1 win over Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday. The left back went off in the 85th minute of the Bundesliga game. “He’s twisted his knee and needs to be examined,” Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel said. “I would have no words for it if this happens again as Phonzie …

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Defender Jarrad Branthwaite headed home a stoppage-time equalizer as Everton salvaged a 2-2 draw with Tottenham in the Premier League on Saturday after Richarlison had scored twice against his former team. Richarlison looked to have boosted Tottenham’s push for a top-four finish by taking his tally to nine goals in his last eight league games. But …

PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid did not comment Saturday on the latest media speculation saying star forward Kylian Mbappé has decided to leave PSG for Madrid next season. According to online reports from French newspaper Le Parisien and ESPN, the 25-year-old Mbappé will join the Spanish giant after his PSG contract runs out at the end of …

SHEFFIELD, England (AP) — Aston Villa returned to the top four in the Premier League after scoring four goals in the opening 30 minutes in a rampant 5-0 win at last-place Sheffield United. Villa had won just one of its last five games to fall out of the Champions League places but Unai Emery’s team leapfrogged Tottenham into fourth with …

NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Newcastle expects to have its leading scorer Alexander Isak back from a groin injury soon, possibly for Saturday’s Premier League game against Luton. The Sweden forward left before halftime of a 3-1 win over Aston Villa in midweek, but assistant manager Jason Tindall said Friday that Isak “has a chance” of playing when Luton visits St. …