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Former Barcelona star player and coach Xavi Hernandez has been hired to coach the Netherlands national team through the 2030 World Cup. He received a four-year contract to take over a ...

Goals from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Desire Doue helped Paris St Germain to retain the UEFA Super Cup with a 2-1 victory over Aston Villa on Wednesday. PSG, back-to-back Champions League ...

Venture capitalist Joshua Kushner and former Disney CEO Bob Iger are set to purchase the Los Angeles Lakers, with the deal valued at a record $12.5 billion, according to sources familiar ...

Football egend Lionel Messi doubts his playing career will last “much longer” following the recent death of his father. Jorge Messi passed away on Saturday at the age of 68 after ...

The Golden State Warriors and superstar guard Stephen Curry plan to extend their marriage until Curry retires, team general manager Mike Dunleavy reiterated on Tuesday. Both sides have previously expressed ...

International 1-on-1 basketball player and content creator Matt ‘MK’ Kiatipis will make his first public visit to Cyprus in September, with appearances in Nicosia, Paralimni and Larnaca. The 25-year-old Canadian ...

Portuguese player Cristiano Ronaldo married his longtime girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez on Tuesday in a civil and private ceremony in Cascais, Portugal, according to his management. Ronaldo, 41, is one of football’...

Aston Villa manager Unai Emery is determined to keep pushing the club to new heights as they prepare to face European champions Paris St Germain in Wednesday’s UEFA Super ...

Apollon crashed out of the Conference League after suffering a 4-2 extra-time defeat to Norwegian side Brann at the Alphamega Stadium in Limassol on Tuesday. The Cypriot side had taken ...

Cyprus hammer thrower Iosif Kesidis finished 12th in the men’s hammer final at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham on Tuesday, with a best throw of 72.27 metres. Kesidis, 20, registered ...

‘I may not have ‘Cypriot blood’ running through my veins, but I am a proud Cypriot’ Young Cypriot athlete Marina Hadjicosta has spoken out about racist comments she received following ...

Could three-time NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic suit up for a professional team in Greece in 2027-28? Well, if Panathinaikos Basketball Club owner Dimitrios Giannakopoulos had his way, Jokic ...

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis on Monday sued Premier League rivals Crystal Palace for libel at London’s High Court, with media reports saying the lawsuit was over a banner ...

Three of FIFA’s six confederations issued an open letter to the “football family” attacking President Gianni Infantino’s conduct during the proposed sale of a stake in World Cup ...

A consortium that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is close to agreeing a deal to acquire a stake of about one-third in Premier League club Liverpool, multiple media outlets reported ...

UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and CONCACAF, which runs football in the Caribbean, North and Central America, issued an open letter on Monday attacking FIFA President Gianni Infantino over ...

Hall of Famer Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history, died Sunday. He was 86. Nelson’s family announced the passing of the five-time champion as a player but didn’...

Manchester City manager Enzo Maresca praised the impact of his wide players after Antoine Semenyo supplied assists for Omar Marmoush in a 3-1 victory over Atletico Madrid on Sunday to ...

World number one Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open with a right knee injury, tournament organisers said on Sunday, handing the Italian a blow in his preparations ...

Bowls Cyprus are sending a team of 12 players to the upcoming European Championships to be held at Llandrindod Wells, Wales between 19th-26th September 2026. The format for the competition is ...

Jorge Messi, the father of football star Lionel Messi, died on Friday night at the age of 68 at a medical clinic in the Argentine city of Rosario after a long ...

Arsenal have signed Newcastle United captain Bruno Guimaraes on a four-year contract with a further one-year option, the Premier League champions announced on Saturday. The North London club have agreed ...

South Korea’s national football association apologised on Saturday after a media report alleged it had provided “sexual services” to foreign referees when they were in the country for international ...

By Bulat Latypov In 2023, Freedom24 – one of the island’s largest financial companies – became the main partner of the Cyprus Chess Federation. Prior to 2023, Cyprus had not played a leading ...