Global Ambitions: CFG's Focus Turns to Uzbekistan City Football Group, which manages assets from Manchester to Montevideo, is ready to expand its football geography by adding Uzbekistan. The impending changes were announced by Otabek Umarov, First Vice-Chairman of the National Olympic Committee:...
European basketball returns to the main stage — and this year the spotlight is less on whiteboard X’s and O’s and more on people. A record NBA contingent turns EuroBasket-2025 into a parade of individualities: some carry a nation’s expectations, some undergo a rite of passage, others try to extend a...
In MMA, sport, showmanship and business have long been intertwined, but the alliance between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Pavel Durov has taken this mix to a new level. The UFC legend and the creator of the region’s biggest messenger needed only a couple of days to turn a traditional Dagestani headdress...
The summer calendar of European football had not yet switched to pre-season, yet Lamine Yamal’s name flashed daily across the pages of tabloid and sports media. The youngest player in Barcelona’s first team reached his first “round” milestone—18 years old—and turned an ordinary holiday into an endle...
Petr Yan's lopsided points win over Merab Dvalishvili was the kind of result almost no one believed in before the fight. The scorecards of 49–46, 49–46 and 48–47 already look convincing, but judging by how the bout played out, you could easily imagine a 50–45 in favor of the Russian as well. There w...
Madrid is tense again: talk of Xabi Alonso’s possible dismissal is growing louder, and according to behind-the-scenes reports, the coach has very little room left to manoeuvre. The board is said to have set a simple formula for trust: the upcoming stretch must deliver results “right now” — otherwise...
Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer, whose performance on the pitch recently secured his club the Club World Cup title, has found himself in the spotlight off the field as well: the English star has announced the end of his long-term relationship with popular blogger and beauty specialist Connie Grace....
Shakhtar’s new head coach Arda Turan quickly realized that it’s hot in Donetsk not only on the pitch. His brief post-match chat with club journalist Daria Savina (now — Daria Bondar) instantly spread across social media and became the subject of endless jokes. The reason was that the coach seemingly...
The Captain's Celebration, Expected as a “Brace” of Joy A Saturday afternoon in the small town of Errum promised pure festivity: Martin Ødegaard—the creative midfield conductor of Arsenal and captain of Norway's national team—was heading to the altar. In front of the picturesque stone church gat...
In the tense atmosphere of an esports arena, where pieces slide across a virtual board as swiftly as odds change on bookmakers’ screens, a single careless mouse movement sealed the verdict. Polish super-grandmaster Jan-Krzysztof Duda, accustomed to weaving chess miracles over a classical wooden boar...
