Unai Emery has been nominated for the 2026 Ballon d'Or Men's Coach of the Year award. The Villa manager ended the club's 30-year wait for a trophy by winning the Europa League in May and delivered a fourth-place Premier League finish. Johan Manzambi, who signed from Freiburg in the summer for a club record fee of just over £50m, has also been nominated for Men's Young Talent of the Year.
Bournemouth forward Eli Junior Kroupi has been nominated for the Men's Young Talent of the Year award ahead of the 2026 Ballon d'Or ceremony. The 20-year-old is one of three Premier League players to be named in the 10-player shortlist, alongside Manchester City's Ayyoub Bouaddi and Aston Villa's Johan Manzambi. After making his Bournemouth debut in August 2025, Kroupi made 35 appearances and scored 13 goals across all competitions last season.
Teenager welcomes LeBron to 76ersVincent Janssen scores Timbers’ first MLS hat-trickEmbolo scores, Messi assists in charged matchPhiladelphia Union midfielder Cavan Sullivan became the youngest player in MLS history to record a five-match goal contribution streak on Saturday.At 16 years and 342 days old, Sullivan scored in his third consecutive MLS match on Saturday when he tallied in the 75th minute of the Union’s 2-0 victory over CF Montreal. He has three goals and three assists during his past five league matches. Continue reading...
Augsburg scored two goals in as many minutes to overturn a 1-0 deficit before sensational strikes from Alexis Claude-Maurice’s and Fabian Rieder sent Manuel Baum’s charges to the Bundesliga summit with a 4-1 triumph against a winless Eintracht Frankfurt.
Defending champion Thriston Lawrence reeled off six birdies in a row and then made an excellent par save from a bunker to secure the lead at the halfway stage of the Omega European Masters as he looks to emulate the late, great Seve Ballesteros.
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