• The Canadian Press

    Quebec semi-pro side CS Saint-Laurent upsets Halifax in Canadian Championship play

    HALIFAX — Ligue1 Quebec champion CS Saint-Laurent upset Halifax Wanderers FC 5-3 in a penalty shootout Thursday to earn a quarterfinal date with Toronto FC in the Canadian Championship. After Saint-Laurent 'keeper Konstantinos Maniatis stopped Christian Volesky's penalty, Mouhamadou Kane stepped up and beat Yann Fillion for the shootout win. It marks the second straight year a semi-pro side has dispatched a pro team from the Canadian Premier League in the cup competition. TSS Rovers, based in Ri

  • The Independent

    Unai Emery meets his match as the Spanish conqueror of European football

    Aston Villa 2-4 Olympiacos: A late missed penalty by Douglas Luiz could prove costly after Ayoub El Kaabi hit a hat-trick

  • The Canadian Press

    Maradona's children want to transfer his body from cemetery to a mausoleum

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Children of the late soccer star Diego Maradona have asked a court in Argentina to authorize the transfer of his body from the private cemetery where he is buried to a mausoleum under construction in Buenos Aires to allow fans from around the world to pay tribute to him. They made the request to a court in San Isidro in a letter quoted on Thursday by local media in which they indicated that it comes from “all the heirs” of the soccer star, who died in 2020. The mau

  • PA Media: Sport

    Unai Emery still believes Aston Villa can find happy ending after Greek tragedy

    Villa crumbled on home soil against Olympiacos.