Author: admin

Beth LindopJul 4, 2025, 02:00 PM ETCloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.GENEVA, Switzerland — Among the throngs of Denmark fans filling the sun-soaked fan zone on Friday, there was one name that kept cropping up in conversation. Hours before Andrée Jeglertz’s side kicked off their Euro 2025 campaign with a 1-0 defeat to Sweden, many supporters on the banks of Lake Geneva could be seen sporting shirts with ‘Harder 10’ on the back, in homage to their captain and poster girl, Pernille Harder.”She is a role model,” Michelle Geersten, one…

Inter Miami CF and Lionel Messi remain in negotiations to extend the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner’s contract beyond the end of 2025, a source told ESPN.Despite recent reports linking Messi to clubs in other leagues, both Inter Miami and the Argentine captain remain interested in continuing their relationship on the field.Messi signed with Inter Miami in July 2023 on a two-and-a-half year Designated-Player contract through the end of the 2025 MLS season. Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas told ESPN last month that the team will take whatever measures necessary to ensure Messi remains with the club moving forward, with cautious…

CANNES — Wall Street’s new plumbing is being built on Ethereum and this week its architects descended on the same French Riviera villas and red carpet venues that host the Cannes Film Festival in May.The Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, transformed the beachside town into a hub for crypto founders, developers, and the institutional giants now building atop the infrastructure. The crypto elite climbed the iconic steps of the Palais des Festivals — a cinematic landmark typically reserved for film stars — now repurposed as the stage for Ethereum’s flagship European event.”The atmosphere this year was palpable in Cannes,” said…

Aston Villa and Chelsea have been fined by UEFA for breaches of its financial rules. Chelsea have to pay a total of £27m in fines and could pay up to £52m more if they breach their four-year agreement with the CFCB. Aston Villa must pay £9.5m in fines and failure to comply with their three-year settlement could lead to a further penalty of up to £13m more.Both Premier League clubs broke UEFA’s football earnings rule and squad cost rule.Villa and Chelsea had a squad cost ratio (percentage of a club’s income spent on the first-team squad) of between 80 and…

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesScammers impersonating the President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance Inaugural Committee fraudulently stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to a new complaint filed by federal prosecutors.The perpetrators used phony email addresses made to look like they belonged to the inaugural committee to ” trick or coerce victims into providing them money,” according to the civil complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.Using email addresses that end in “@t47lnaugural.com” with a lowercase “l” as opposed to “@t47inaugural.com” with a lowercase “i,” the scammers duped victims into sending them…

NITEROI, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian hiker who died after falling from the ridge of a volcano in Indonesia was buried on Friday in Rio de Janeiro state.Juliana Marins’ body arrived in Brazil on Tuesday, a week after authorities confirmed her death. Her family has accused Indonesian authorities of negligence and delays in the rescue and repatriation process.On June 21, the 26-year-old tourist began summiting on Mount Rinjani, an active 3,726-meter (12,224-foot) volcano on the Indonesian island of Lombok, with a guide and five other foreigners, when she fell about 600 meters (nearly 2,000 feet), Indonesian authorities said.Indonesian rescuers retrieved…

CNN  —  Hamas announced on Friday that it had “submitted a positive response” to a proposal for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, opening the path toward a deal to halt the conflict after months of failed efforts. Hamas has “submitted a positive response to the mediators, and the movement is fully prepared to immediately enter into a round of negotiations regarding the mechanism for implementing this framework,” the group said in a statement. Israel had previously accepted the US-sponsored framework, which means the two sides are now expected to enter final, detailed negotiations before a ceasefire agreement is officially reached.…

Chelsea were fined a total of €31 million ($36.5 million) for breaking financial monitoring rules by UEFA on Friday to hit a record sum for a European club penalized in a single season.Barcelona also were ordered to pay €15 million ($17.7 million) for making excessive losses according to UEFA’s complex evaluations of club accounts if they qualify for European competitions, designed to promote stability in the industry.Both clubs were sanctioned over their financial accounts for 2024 and must pay tens of millions of more euros (dollars) in future seasons if they miss financial targets set by UEFA.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedChelsea were…

CNN  —  Families are demanding answers after authorities in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, discovered that 383 bodies had been stored in a crematorium for months and years after the people had died. Norma Guardado Meraz was one of many locals who visited the Chihuahua Prosecutor’s Office this week to get more information about its investigation into the discovery, fearing that among the bodies are those of their relatives. The discovery was made on June 26 after several municipal police officers found a hearse containing two bodies and other corpses piled up in a room in the building’s courtyard. Prosecutor César Jáuregui…

Summer is in full swing, and more and more people are heading on vacation or planning one. With the price of hopping on a flight fluctuating so much right now, you might want to consider a destination you can just drive to.”You can make a road trip out of the vacation, take your time, and actually enjoy the journey. They’re often more affordable, less crowded, and full of quiet beauty,” Hilary Fischer-Groban, Senior Director of Global Brand, Insights and Comms at Tripadvisor, tells CNBC Make It.”It’s a chance to slow down, unplug, and get the kind of reset a packed…