Tag: UEFA Champions League

• Thursday, February 20th 2020 - 18:26 UTC

  Pep Guardiola openly attacks his ex club Barcelona in defense of Manchester City

  

  Pep Guardiola went to war with his former club Barcelona on Wednesday as Manchester City's manager defended his current employers in the wake of their European ban. Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu has “thanked” UEFA for banning City from the Champions League and Europa League for two years, a shock sentence handed out on Friday which the Premier League champions plan to appeal.

• Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Manchester City banned from EU competition and fined for breaching financial fair play rules; the club will appeal

  

  English champions Manchester City have been banned from European competition for the next two seasons and fined 30 million Euros by European soccer's governing body UEFA after an investigation into alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

• Sunday, June 16th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Luis Suarez: “Losing the Champions League semi-final, the worst moments of my life”

  

  Uruguayan born Barcelona striker Luis Suarez said losing 4-0 to Liverpool in the Champions League semi-finals was as painful as when he was sent home from the 2014 World Cup for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini and banned from football for four months.

• Monday, June 3rd 2019 - 04:03 UTC

  Thousands line up streets of Liverpool to celebrate the “Six Red”

  

  Liverpool's celebrations shifted to their home city on Sunday as tens of thousands of fans greeted the team who beat Tottenham to win the Champions League final in Madrid the night before.

• Friday, February 14th 2014 - 21:16 UTC

  Russia welcomes Gibraltar to the UEFA family

  

  Pravda, Russia’s political newspaper associated with the Communist Party, welcomed Gibraltar into UEFA’s family in an article publish online on Thursday.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 12:57 UTC

  Gibraltar Under-19 football team makes history as they compete for European Qualifier

  

  Gibraltar Under-19 national football squad left the Rock en route to be the first team representing Gibraltar in a European Championship Qualifier. The first stop is in Bulgaria, where the Gibraltar players will prepare with a friendly against the Bulgarian national team. From there, they will travel to the Czech Republic to compete at the European Championships.

• Friday, April 20th 2012 - 21:45 UTC

  Two English, two Spanish and one German in the billion dollars plus clubs league

  

  The piles of cash handed out by Europe’s top tournaments continue to drive team values higher for the best teams on the pitch, according to the latest report from Forbes.