Se acabó el drama, se acabó el suspenso: Julián Araujo es jugador del Barcelona.

El traspaso del mexico-americano desde el LA Galaxy al equipo catalán se había convertido en todo una telenovela, luego de que los papeles de su trasnferencia llegaron a las oficinas correspondientes 18 segundos después del cierre del mercado de pases invernal.

Czech Republic international Jakub Jankto announced on Monday that he is gay, saying he wants to live his life “in freedom.”

Jankto, who plays for Sparta Prague on loan from LaLiga side Getafe, made his international debut in 2017.

The 27-year-old, who has 45 caps, is the highest profile current male footballer to publicly come out as gay.

Real Madrid defeated Al-Hilal 5-3 in the Club World Cup final on Saturday to be crowned world champions. Madrid’s front three of Karim Benzema, Federico Valverde and Vinícius Jr. were at their best and scored all of Madrid’s goals.

Al-Hilal became the first club from Saudi Arabia to make the Club World Cup final and didn’t give Real Madrid an easy time. No club outside of Europe and South America has ever won the competition and that streak lives on.

Al-Hilal never led in the game but managed to keep things interesting for the 90 minutes.

The Brazilian Football Association (CBF) will wait until the end of the 2022-23 European season to fill the vacant Brazil manager position with Real Madrid's Carlo Ancelotti their main target.

Following the exit of manager Tite after their World Cup quarterfinal penalty defeat by Croatia, CBF president Ednaldo Rodrigues told a news conference in November that he wanted to find his replacement between January and February.

BERLIN - A future European Super League could include as many as 80 teams, Bernd Reichart, the chief executive of A22 Sports Management, a company formed to sponsor and assist in the creation of a breakaway soccer league, said on Thursday.

In a statement outlining the preliminary results of talks that A22 had with what it said was 50 European clubs and stakeholders of football, the company said change was necessary.

A battered and bruised Real Madrid side in a poor run of form eked out a late 4-1 victory vs. Al Ahly in the Club World Cup semifinal on Wednesday in Rabat, Morocco.

The scoreline doesn’t reflect how close the game was as Madrid’s final two goals came in stoppage time.

Major League Soccer fans wished it were the Seattle Sounders playing Real Madrid instead of Al Ahly. The MLS side fell 1-0 to the Egyptian club on Saturday. 

Hoy todos dicen cosas bonitas de Javier Aguirre. La pizarra del Vasco funcionó de maravillas y el Mallorca sorprendió al universo de LaLiga derrotando 1-0 al Real Madrid, uno de los gigantes de la competencia.

El plan del técnico mexicano en el papel fue bastante directo: ser prágmaticos a la hora de defender e intentar dar un mazazo arriba en el momento adecuado. Pero a la hora de emplear recursos también quedaron en evidencia algunas mañas necesarias para lograr el objetivo. ¿La más notoria? Desquiciar a Vinicius Jr. a punta de patadas.

Champions Real Madrid suffered a shock 1-0 loss at Mallorca in LaLiga on Sunday thanks to a bizarre own goal by defender Nacho early in the first half.

Nacho left his teammates stunned as he tried to clear a cross in the 13th minute and headed the ball high over his own goalkeeper and into the net.

Nacho own goal vs. Mallorca

Vedat Muriqi with the perfect looping header to put Mallorca ahead of Real Madrid pic.twitter.com/K0D1TrUm9S