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(Reuters) – Feyenoord’s Arne Slot wants to succeed Juergen Klopp as Liverpool manager, the Dutchman said on Thursday, and he expects his club and the Premier League side to reach an agreement soon.

Dutch media reported on Wednesday that Liverpool had opened negotiations with the Eredivisie champions for the services of the 45-year-old Slot who is under contract with the Rotterdam club until 2026.

“The only thing I can say about it is that the clubs are in negotiations. Then you sit in the waiting room and wait for what will come out,” Slot told ESPN.

“It seems clear to me that I would like to go to Liverpool. Now I’m waiting to see whether the clubs reach an agreement. I’m very confident in that.

“The clubs have to do their job. It will undoubtedly become clear in the coming days.”

Slot was heavily linked with a move to Tottenham Hotspur last year, but opted to stay at Feyenoord.

He has been widely praised for his innovative, attacking football with Feyenoord, guiding them to the league title in 2022-23 and the KNVB Cup crown on Sunday.

In his first season at Feyenoord, Slot led the Rotterdam club to the final of the inaugural Europa Conference League.

Klopp announced in January that he would stand down as Liverpool manager at the end of the season after a highly successful nine-year spell at the club in which they won the Champions League, Premier League, Club World Cup, FA Cup, League Cup and Super Cup.

(Reporting by Janina Nuno Rios in Mexico City, editing by Ed Osmond)

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/sport/football/2024/04/26/soccer-feyenoord-coach-slot-wants-liverpool-job—report

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BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) -Phil Foden struck twice as Manchester City stepped up their bid for a fourth Premier League crown in a row with a ruthless 4-0 victory at Brighton & Hove Albion on Thursday.

A day after Liverpool’s title challenge suffered a huge blow with a 2-0 defeat at Everton, City kept up the pressure on leaders Arsenal with a dominant display that left them one point behind the London club with a game in hand.

“The statement is three points,” City manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports. “There are five games left, we know the margins are so tight. We have to win every one. Each game we are closer.”

He added that it remains very much a three-team race.

“What happened to Liverpool, two defeats in a row, it can happen to Arsenal, it can happen to us,” Guardiola said. “What is important is that still we are there. There is a lot of games to play.”

Kevin De Bruyne’s superb diving header put City, missing top scorer Erling Haaland due to injury, ahead in the 17th minute.

“It doesn’t happen too much, does it? I think the only way I could reach it was jumping to the ball, and it goes in like a little lob, but it’s obviously not something I’m really good at,” De Bruyne said after netting his first headed goal in the Premier League.

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Foden scored his first with a deflected free kick and Brighton defensive errors allowed Bernardo Silva to win the ball and set up the England midfielder to sweep a shot into the bottom corner before halftime.

“With Kev’s first goal and a bit lucky with my second goal, it settled us a little bit and we grew into the game, in the first half was frightening with the way we attacked,” Foden said.

Foden, whose hat-trick led City to a 4-1 win over Aston Villa three weeks ago, became only the third player to score 50 top-flight goals under manager Pep Guardiola aged 23 or younger, after Lionel Messi and Haaland.

Julian Alvarez completed the rout midway through the second half and Brighton, who remained 11th in the table, never looked capable of launching a fightback.

Manchester City are unbeaten in 30 games in all competitions with 24 wins and six draws, making them the third English top-flight side to reach that landmark after Nottingham Forest (40 in 1978) and Manchester United (34 in 1993-94 and 33 in 1998-99).

Their last loss excluding penalty shootouts was against Aston Villa in early December.

Brighton’s best chance came when City keeper Ederson gifted them a late opportunity when he raced out of his box, only to fire the ball straight at Odeluga Offiah who failed to take advantage.

“City are one of the best teams in the world and today they played very well,” Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi said.

City head to relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest on Sunday. They close out the season with matches against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United.

(Reporting by Lori Ewing, editing by Ed Osmond)

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/sport/football/2024/04/26/soccer-man-city-humble-brighton-to-keep-pressure-on-arsenal

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(Reuters) – Everton manager Sean Dyche has made no secret of his love for American rock band Green Day, but he did not expect lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong to respond by offering his support for the Premier League club.

Dyche spoke on the “Football, Music and Me” podcast about former England defender Stuart Pearce convincing him to go to a Green Day concert, where he heard them “smashing the life out of song after song”.

Armstrong uploaded a morphed photo of himself signing for Everton and congratulated the team after they beat Liverpool 2-0 in the Merseyside derby on Wednesday.

“I don’t care what music you’re into, just buy a ticket and see Green Day. They were a different class,” Dyche told reporters on Thursday.

“I wasn’t expecting it. The power of social media, I suppose.”

(Reporting by Chiranjit Ojha in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/sport/football/2024/04/26/soccer-green-day039s-armstrong-returns-everton-love

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(Reuters) – Women’s soccer teams have been ditching white shorts as part of a growing trend aimed at tackling period anxiety in sport, and new research shows that women’s teams who play in white perform worse.

Alex Krumer, a sports economist and professor at Molde University College in Norway, studied the results of World Cups and European Championships between 2002 and 2023, and found women’s teams wearing white shorts averaged 1.27 points per game compared to 1.57 points by teams in dark colours. Men’s teams in white shorts showed no drop in performance.

“This is one of the easiest conclusions for policy advice that I can give — nothing to do with budgets, nothing to do with money. Don’t play in white shorts, full stop,” Krumer said in an interview with Reuters. “So easy to implement. And then women will feel good about it. And you will increase your probability of winning. It’s win-win. So easy.”

Krumer, whose peer-reviewed paper “On the cost of wearing white shorts in women’s sport” was published recently in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, was curious about whether women’s anxieties about leakage affected their performance. He found no difference in performance in men’s teams wearing white.

“There is zero effect for men … they just don’t care because they don’t have this menstrual anxiety or leakage anxiety,” he said.

The issue made headlines ahead of last year’s Women’s World Cup when several countries including England and New Zealand ditched white.

“Anything that relieves the mental stress of the players is a good thing. If it’s one less thing to worry about, then why not?” England defender Lucy Parker said when the change was announced, while team mate and forward Lauren Hemp called it a “massive step in the right direction”.

Manchester City, West Bromwich Albion and Orlando Pride also binned their white shorts, while complaints from female tennis players around Wimbledon’s all-white dress code prompted the Grand Slam’s organisers to relax rules to allow women to wear dark undershorts.

England’s Red Roses rugby team, on the other hand, decided against a switch, arguing menstruation should not be a taboo subject and women should not have to switch to make others comfortable.

Nineteen of the 32 teams at last year’s Women’s World Cup played at least one match in white, Krumer said.

Krumer used regression analysis and controlled for other factors such as team ranking and home advantage. When he unveiled his working paper back in October, Denmark’s women’s team announced they were dropping their white shorts soon after.

The issue around period anxiety stretches beyond international and professional sport. Numerous studies around the world show girls drop out of sport at a far greater rate than boys.

“And if you force them to play in white shorts, especially at the age of 14, 15, when they really care about what people will think … that’s a pity,” Krumer said. “And it’s taboo,” he added. “People don’t want to talk about it, but 50% of the population has it. What’s the problem?

“Sport can (also) effectively promote awareness of social issues in general, including those concerning the menstrual cycle.”

Part of Krumer’s interest in the topic stemmed from what he said is a lack of research in women’s sport compared to men.

“We really have some social responsibility as scientists to investigate women’s sports because women’s sport is heavily under-investigated,” he said.

(Reporting by Lori Ewing; Editing by Toby Davis)

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/sport/football/2024/04/25/soccer-period-anxiety-and-white-shorts-linked-to-drop-in-performance-says-study-author

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Indianapolis is officially pursuing an MLS team.

The city announced Thursday it will put in a bid for a Major League Soccer expansion team, potentially placing in jeopardy the plans that are underway to develop Eleven Park.

Here is what you should know.

How much is the MLS expansion fee?

San Diego FC, which will debut in 2025, paid a reported $500 million fee. St. Louis City SC debuted in 2023 and paid an expansion fee of $200 million. It’s too early to tell what a potential expansion fee for Indianapolis might be, though it is worth noting the price has increased with the addition of each team. As a point of reference, New York City FC paid a then-record $100 million in 2013 for the right to join MLS in 2015.

More: Indianapolis wants an MLS team, here’s how the expansion process works

Stadium locations for MLS team in Indianapolis

Eleven Park, a more than $1 billion mixed-use development anchored by an Indy Eleven soccer stadium, could potentially house the MLS team. It is being built on Kentucky Avenue near the White River.

Alternatively, a stadium could be built at 355 E. Pearl St. on the site of the downtown helipad.

More: Indianapolis plans to pursue MLS expansion team, raising questions on Indy Eleven future

Who is the owner of the prospective Indianapolis MLS team?

City officials did not identify any members of the ownership group, but stated the group of investors is led by “an experienced and well-respected sports executive who has held leadership roles in MLS and global soccer.”

Earlier on Thursday: Keystone accuses Hogsett administration of trying to walk away from Eleven Park deal

What is MLS?

Major League Soccer was founded in December 1993. There are currently 29 teams. It is the highest level of soccer in the United States. Its first season was in 1996 when D.C. United beat the Los Angeles Galaxy for the inaugural championship.

How big would the MLS stadium be in Indianapolis?

Eleven Park would occupy roughly 20 acres near Kentucky Avenue. Plans call for it to include a 20,000-seat multipurpose stadium that would become the new home to the Indy Eleven soccer team. It is unclear what the seating capacity would be for a potential stadium at 355 E. Pearl St.

For a comparison, Nashville SC plays in Geodis Park, which seats 30,000. FC Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium seats 26,000.

When could Indianapolis land an MLS team?

Currently, there is no formal timeline nor a definitive process for MLS expansion, unlike in 2017 when 12 markets (including the Indy Eleven) bid for four teams.

With regards to the process itself, an expansion team in Indianapolis would begin at the local level with plans for a new stadium required to receive approval from local and state government, all before June 30. Upon receiving state approval, the city and the ownership group will submit an application to MLS. That application will include plans for the new stadium, a non-refundable application fee and detailed information about both the proposed ownership group and city of Indianapolis.

City officials hope to have an expansion application submitted by the end of the year.

Follow Brian Haenchen on Twitter at @Brian_Haenchen.

Source: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2024/04/25/mls-in-indianapolis-what-to-know-major-league-soccer-bid-stadium-expansion-fee-indy-eleven/73458963007/

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Source: http://www.socceramerica.com/is-the-mls-coaching-carousel-about-to-crank-up-again/

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