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U.S. equity company buys Man United shares
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Saturday, 11 September 2021 05:26
Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based personal equity fund, has increased its stake holding in Manchester United beyond 5% of the club's shares after completing a $100 million purchase of A-class shares.Sources have told ESPN, however, that the shares have been acquired through United's listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and that the club's American owners, the Glazer family, have…
South America's Prem stars won't face FIFA ban
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Saturday, 11 September 2021 02:24
Premier League clubs which blocked South American players from traveling to World Cup qualifiers will be able to play them this weekend after the threat of a five-day ban from FIFA was lifted on Friday.Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay agreed to waive their right to trigger a FIFA regulation in what would have been a bid to prevent players from…
Super Samstag! Leverkusen-Dortmund, Leipzig-Bayern are Saturday treats
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Saturday, 11 September 2021 02:21
ESPN's lead Bundesliga commentator Derek Rae returns with his regular column, this week looking ahead to a back-to-back Saturday treat for all German football fans. Super-Samstag is almost upon us.There was a certain eeriness about that train journey from Cologne to Munich on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. My colleagues at the DFL's TV operation had strongly suggested I take an…
Bayern, Leipzig in transition with new managers. Who will prevail?
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Friday, 10 September 2021 18:49
RB Leipzig are familiar with Bayern Munich, their opponents on Saturday (12:20 p.m. ET, stream live on ESPN+), and not just in the sense of competing in the same league. Defender Dayot Upamecano and playmaker Marcel Sabitzer both left Leipzig for Bayern in the offseason, as did their former manager, Julian Nagelsmann. He'll be there on the sidelines of his…
U.S. Soccer asks teams to split World Cup money
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Friday, 10 September 2021 15:43
U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone on Friday sent an open letter asking the unions of the women's and men's national teams to agree to equalize FIFA's World Cup prize money.She called for the men's national team to allow the USSF to reallocate a portion of FIFA's World Cup payments to the federation to the women's team. Parlow Cone…
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