John Aloisi has stepped down as head coach of A-League strugglers Brisbane Roar following four consecutive defeats.
Aloisi s resignation was announced on Friday, with the Roar second from bottom after just one win from nine matches this season.
The 42-year-old former Australia international joined the Roar in 2015 and led the three-time A-League champions to back-to-back semi-finals.
However, Brisbane have struggled in 2018-19 – last month s win over Melbourne City the only shining light on an otherwise poor campaign to date.
BRFC can today confirm that John Aloisi has stepped down as Head Coach and will leave the club, effective immediately:
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Mauro Icardi said scoring his 100th Serie A goal against former side Sampdoria was his destiny after leading Inter s 5-0 rout with a haul of four.
Inter blew their hosts away on Sunday, with Ivan Perisic opening the scoring before Icardi took over.
The striker was given his first taste of senior football by Sampdoria before joining Inter for €6million in July 2013, where he has blossomed into one of Serie A s best attackers, as evidenced by his four-goal showing in Genoa.
His first on the day, a penalty, saw him take his tally to 100 in Serie A for the two sides, while his fourth moved him on to a century in all competitions for Inter.
And reaching such milestones against Sampdoria was fitting, Icardi thought.
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Marcel Desailly has urged Paul Pogba and N Golo Kante to rediscover top form at club level in a bid to aid France s World Cup hopes.
Pogba has continued to lack consistency at Manchester United after returning to Old Trafford from Juventus in August 2016, and has even found himself left out of the starting XI by manager Jose Mourinho in recent weeks.
Kante, meanwhile, has not been at his best for Chelsea after two stellar seasons that saw him win the Premier League title with Leicester City and then the Blues.
Pogba offered a reminder of what he is capable of with an assist and a goal in France s 3-1 friendly win over Russia in St Petersburg on Tuesday.
And Desailly, a World Cup and European Championship winner with Les Bleus, knows how important it is fo…
Erik ten Hag is set to outline his Manchester United vision on Monday when he holds his first news conference as Red Devils boss.
The former Ajax head coach has secured an early release from his contract at the Johan Cruijff ArenA, allowing him to get down to work in his new post.
A busy summer lies ahead for Ten Hag, with a host of players set to leave Old Trafford after a wretched season for the club.
Paul Pogba, Edinson Cavani, Juan Mata, Nemanja Matic, Phil Jones and Jesse Lingard look set to depart, while doubts surround others, including Eric Bailly and Aaron Wan-Bissaka.
A substantial clear-out is likely to be followed by a recruitment drive as Ten Hag looks to build a squad capable of putting up a greater challenge for a Champions League place.
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Two nations who are looking to book their spot in the final of this year s Gold Cup, Mexico and Canada will face off at the NRG Stadium in the early hours of Friday morning.
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Starting with Mexico, while Gerardo Martino s men might have opened their quarter-finals contest against Honduras last week as a landslide pick, the defending Gold Cup champions really laid down another marker. Putting in a professional display at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale five days ago, The Tricolor picked up a routine 3-0 victory and the mood in their camp should be at a real high. Despite being disappointed to have eventually settled for a 0-0 stalemate against Trinidad and Tobago in a Group A contest on July 11th, that was just the most minor …
Cristiano Ronaldo says Juventus need to bring their A game as they begin their quest to reach a first Champions League final in four years.
The Serie A champions progressed as winners of Group G after a 3-0 win over Barcelona at Camp Nou on matchday six.
They begin the knockout phase on Wednesday against Porto, who were the only side to avoid two defeats against Manchester City in Group C.
Porto have failed to beat Juve in five previous European encounters and the Bianconeri are one of only two teams to play the Portuguese giants away at least twice without ever conceding a goal.
Andrea Pirlo s side have won 11 of their previous 13 Champions League matches, including all three away from home this season, but they come into the contest off the back of a 1-…
The UK and Ireland’s bid to host Euro 2028 is set to be officially approved later today.
Turkey’s withdrawal to focus on a joint bid with Italy to host Euro 2032 leaves the five-nation bid unopposed to host the tournament in five years’ time, with former Wales forward Gareth Bale adding a sprinkling of stardust to the presentation that will be made to UEFA’s executive committee alongside six youth ambassadors.
It emerged on Monday that England had requested to go through qualification for Euro 2028.
UEFA has reserved two ‘safety net’ host-nation berths should any of the five UK and Ireland bidders not qualify on merit, but the Football Association is understood to have already told UEFA that England are keen to go through qualification.
The FA…
Cruz Azul 1-4 Monterrey (1-5 agg): First-half blitz sends four-time winners into Champions League fi
Four-time winners Monterrey will play America in the final of the CONCACAF Champions League after a 4-1 second-leg away win over Cruz Azul sealed a 5-1 aggregate victory in their semi-final.
Leading 1-0 from the first leg in Monterrey, the visitors blew away Cruz Azul in a stunning opening 25 minutes where they opened up a 3-1 lead.
Maximiliano Meza and Orbelin Pineda traded goals within the opening 10 minutes, before Duvan Vergara and Rogelio Funes Mori netted to make it 3-1.
Mexican international Funes Mori added another in the 52nd minute to complete the win for Monterrey, who were last Champions League winners in 2019.
Carlos Rodriguez found Meza unmarked inside the box, dispatching a low finish off the post for a seventh-minute lead and 2-0 advantage…
Harry Kane kept his cool from the penalty spot to give Tottenham a 1-0 win in the first leg of their EFL Cup semi-final against rivals Chelsea.
Spurs surged to a thrilling 3-1 win in the most recent Premier League meeting between the sides but Wembley played host to a more cagey contest on this occasion.
Kepa Arrizabalaga s ill-advised challenge on Kane allowed Tottenham to claim their slender advantage ahead of the return clash, as the England captain converted from 12 yards with typical aplomb.
N Golo Kante hit the post for Chelsea, who controlled large spells of the second-half only to gain little change out of a miserly Spurs backline.
Callum Hudson-Odoi brought a vibrancy to the Chelsea attack and forced Paulo Gazzaniga into a routine save before lif…
If you have the ambition and quality, we count on you and give you the chance to develop. With development, there is also performance. That s why it s a great story for Florian but also for us as a club, Simon Rolfes told Stats Perform.
Bayer Leverkusen had money to splash after Chelsea paid a club-record fee to prise German star Kai Havertz from BayArena at the start of 2020-21. His absence was supposed to leave a glaring hole in North Rhine-Westphalia and prompt a frantic search in the transfer market.
But sporting director Rolfes and Leverkusen had other ideas. Rather than use the money recouped in the blockbuster Havertz transfer, Die Werkself opted to look in their own backyard for a replacement – 18-year-old teenage sensation Florian Wirtz.
Leverkusen s…