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Luis García: ‘I didn’t expect football to give me that again. But there I was, crying’

Liverpool legend talks memories of Istanbul, learning magic and his adventures in Malaysia with Johor Darul Ta’zim Luis García was “super cool”, he says. That, at least, was the plan, but things have a habit of working out differently. When the former Atlético Madrid, Barcelona and Liverpool player retired in 2016, it was the second

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Sponsorship revenue for Uefa’s club competitions set to break €1bn barrier

Sponsorship income due to rise by more than 40% Champions League clubs to benefit from the growth Uefa is poised to bring in more than €1bn (£870m) a year in commercial revenues from club competitions from next year, with two more global sponsorship deals close to being agreed. Uefa’s commercial arm, UC3, is finalising agreements

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Iran releases assets of women’s football team captain in Australia asylum drama

Zahra Ghanbari had been on list of ‘traitors’ whose assets were frozen Latest move taken ‘following her change in behaviour’ Iran’s judiciary said on Monday authorities had released the assets of the captain of Iranian women’s football team which had been seized after she made and then withdrew an asylum claim in Australia last month.

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