Leading a new era for Les Bleus, newly appointed skipper Kylian Mbappé slotted home two unforgiving finishes to headline a 4-0 win over the Netherlands.
World Cup winner Lionel Messi regretted his testy exchanges with the Netherlands coach and players during their controversial quarterfinal in Qatar, he said in an interview.
Depay had already trained with Atlético on Thursday with permission from Barcelona.
Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo, Bayern Munich defender Matthijs de Ligt along with Sven Botman, Joey Veerman and Bart Verbruggen, all left the training camp as a result.
Danjuma joined Tottenham until the end of the season and will start his second stint in English soccer, having played for Bournemouth from 2019-21.
PSV Eindhoven forward Cody Gakpo appears set to kick off the January transfer window with a move to Liverpool ahead of the January transfer window.
A new dawn begins for World Cup runners-up France as it begins European Championship qualifying without Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema, and with Kylian Mbappé leading the team against the Netherlands.
Brazil was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Croatia but built enough rankings points from results over recent years that feed into FIFA's calculation.
The FC Goa striker grew up in post-9/11 America and believes a player deserves to represent his nation even if he is raised overseas. As long as he is good...
Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni has come in strong defence of Argentina players after the feisty reactions of players post the Netherlands game.
The football governing body cited “order and security at matches” in its disciplinary code for charging the Argentina soccer federation.
Whether it was in the rule book or not, Lionel Messi was going to do just about anything to get to the World Cup semifinals.
Messi converted his penalty in the shootout and Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez saved two attempts. Lautaro Martinez scored the clinching penalty.
The quarterfinal match between Argentina and the Netherlands has all the ingredients of a classic.
Andries Noppert is ready to face Lionel Messi if the Argentina star takes a penalty kick in Friday’s World Cup quarterfinal match.
Fox said its coverage of the round of 16 match on Saturday was viewed by an average of 12.9 million, including almost 600,000 on its digital streaming services.
Memphis Depay, Daley Blind and Denzel Dumfries got on the scoresheet for the Oranje to move one step closer to the World Cup trophy.
Pulisic left Tuesday's final group stage match against Iran at halftime after bruising his pelvic bone in a collision with the opposition goalkeeper.
The United States has played the Netherlands five times previously, all in friendlies, losing at home in 1998 and at Amsterdam in 2004 and 2010.
The Dutch advanced to the round of 16 while the Qataris, who were already eliminated, became the first host to lose all three of its group matches at the FIFA...
For the Netherlands, a draw will suffice to advance and put them in contention again in a World Cup after failing to qualify four years ago.
The draw gave both the Dutch and Ecuador one point apiece to move them to four points in Group A leaving hosts Qatar with 0 points after their loss to Senegal.
The Senegalese reporter told the Netherlands coach that he was a long-time admirer and has been his fan since 3 years old.
Denzel Dumfries, Netherlands defender, said that they have spoken about human rights in the past, but now it was time to focus on football.
Valencia had scored both of Ecuador's goals against Qatar. Depay, on the other hand, came on in as a substitute against Senegal.
