After recovering from an injury and preparing to return to Galatasaray, the life of Argentine striker Mauro Icardi and his former wife Wanda Nara has once again become the focus of the press—and each day adds a new chapter to this story. Ten-Hour Crisis The dispute over child custody has f...
During the winter transfer window, 18-year-old midfielder Baran Yıldız made a career-defining move from the Gençlerbirliği youth academy to the Premier League club Newcastle United, signing a four-and-a-half-year contract. Now, he aims not only to establish himself in the English club but also to we...
Dramatic Finale: Controversial Penalty-Area Incident With Pachuca The second-round group-stage match of the Club World Cup between Madrid’s Real and Mexico’s Pachuca was heading toward a logical conclusion—Los Blancos led 3-1 and were comfortably dictating the play. Yet in stoppage time somethin...
Crash on Chester High Road On Saturday, 28 June, at around five o’clock in the evening, on a winding stretch of Chester High Road in Cheshire County, a black Range Rover driven by former England holding midfielder Paul Ince crashed into the central reservation. Fortunately, the collision caused no...
Debt Reload: Bonds Instead of Balance-Sheet Burden At the start of summer, the Catalan giant executed a quiet yet colossal operation: the club issued bonds worth 424 million €, converting part of its old obligations under the Espai Barça project. Formally, the money is the same, but thanks to th...
A Star-Crossed Story Ending in a “Double Life” When Manchester City defender Kyle Walker fell in love with model and reality-show personality Lauryn Goodman, their romance looked like yet another glossy tale of a footballer and a beauty. In 2020 she gave birth to their son Cairo, and in 2022 to...
Not Just Anyone, but the Best: The Journey From Overlooked High Schooler to NCAA Star When city high-school championships were held in Hamilton, Canada, the name of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander did not appear on the shortlist of top prospects. Coaches praised his wingspan and coordination but sighed at...
Anfield Under the Spotlights: The Stadium Became a Concert Venue for Two Nights At the beginning of June the legendary Anfield arena briefly traded its pitch markings for stage scenery: Dua Lipa played two consecutive sold-out shows here. All 120 thousand tickets were snapped up instantly, and m...
A Sicilian Weekend on Jet Skis While most footballers dispersed to their national teams or took time to recover after a demanding season, 17 -year-old Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal opted for sun-drenched Sicily. Paparazzi captured the young talent cutting through sapphire waves on a jet ski alon...
An Unplanned Comeback: The Return of an Old Injury Nearly a quarter of a century ago, in May 2003, David Beckham suffered a broken wrist in England’s friendly against South Africa. At the time, medical intervention allowed the “Three Lions” captain to return to the pitch quickly: a resorbable sc...
