NEW YORK (AP) â Midfielder Richy Ledezma, his career slowed by injuries, is joining Major League Soccer's New York City from the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven. NYC said Friday it acquired the 22-year-old on an intraleague loan from Real Salt Lake through the end of the 2023 season for $50,000 in general allocation money this year and a second-round MLS draft pick in 2024. Real Salt Lake could receive an additional $50,000 in 2024 GAM based on performance incentives. There is no option to buy at the e
John Herdman expects to face a different Curaçao side in CONCACAF Nations League play Saturday night than the one Canada dispatched with ease last June in Vancouver. The Canadian men, currently ranked 53rd in the world, blanked No. 86 Curacao 4-0 at B.C. Place Stadium. Former Whitecap Alphonso Davies, playing his first game in Vancouver since October 2018, scored twice that day. Steven Victoria and Lucas Cavallini also scored for the Canadians, who held a 22-5 edge in shots (9-0 in shots on targ
Kylian MbappĂ© delivered for France again, this time wearing the captainâs armband. Leading a new era for Les Bleus, there was something very familiar about the way MbappĂ© slotted home two unforgiving finishes to headline a 4-0 win over the Netherlands in European Championship qualifying on Friday. France showed no lasting effects from that painful penalty-shootout loss to Argentina in the World Cup final three months ago. Nor did MbappĂ©, the scorer of a hat trick in a losing cause that day. One