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Arsenal financial results: Gunners reveal £23.5m loss for 2018-19
Arsenal reveal a pre-tax loss of £23.5m for the year to 31 May 2019, compared with a £97.4m profit 12 months previously.
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Russia doping: Athletes wait in fear of fresh world ban
Russia faces another sport ban over a doping scandal, but one man has spoken out to demand change.
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The Canadian Premier League was littered with countless feel-good stories in 2019. A lot of those stories were about young players who signed their first pro contracts with CPL teams, and how they made the most of the opportunities granted them by announcing themselves to the soccer world after...
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Should he stay or should he go? That's the question hanging over Tristan Borges this winter, and many will be looking on with keen interest to see how he answers, because as the Forge FC midfielder contemplates his future, the fallout for the Canadian Premier League could be significant. Borges...
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HFX Wanderers FC announced on Thursday the re-signing of defender Chrisnovic N’sa for the 2020 campaign, bringing back the youngster for a second season in Halifax. N’sa, a native of Montreal, played 21 times in the Wanderers' first year in all competitions, and distinguished himself by playing...
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Canadian Premier League’s ironman will be returning for the 2020 campaign. York9 FC announced on Thursday that it has re-signed Luca Gasparotto, alongside Simon Adjei and Wataru Murofushi, as they become the latest batch of players who'll be back next season. Gasparotto, a 24-year-old...
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Tommy Wheeldon Jr. wasn't kidding when he said he'd be focusing on re-signing players to close out 2019. Cavalry FC announced another trio of roster moves on Thursday, revealing that they'll be bringing back Jordan Brown, Oliver Minatel, and Niko Giantsopoulos for the 2020 CPL season. Brown, a...
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Roger Federer to become first living person to be celebrated on Swiss coins
Switzerland's 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer will become the first living person to be celebrated on a coin in the country.
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York9 FC's backline will be holding steady on either side, as the club announced Wednesday the re-signings of both right fullback Morey Doner and left fullback Diyaeddine Abzi for the 2020 Canadian Premier League season. Doner, 25, and Abzi, 21, formed one of the top fullback duos during the...
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FC Edmonton announced Wednesday the club has signed former academy product and highly-touted youngster Hanson Boakai, bringing the Guinea-born Edmontonian and Canadian U-23 international back home for the 2020 Canadian Premier League season. Boakai, 23, returns to Edmonton following a five-year...
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Home is many things to many different people. For some, it's where they were born. For others, it's the place they grew up. Home can be two places at once, even. For Guinean-born Canadian attacker Hanson Boakai, home looks and feels a lot like Edmonton, even if his last five years haven't been...
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Voting is now open for the CPL's first-ever Fan Awards, where supporters can have their say on a trio of post-season honours (and also win some great prizes). Three goalkeepers are up for the Allstate Good Hands Award for save of the year, while three attackers are vying for Goal of the Year...
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HFX Wanderers FC added some attacking depth on Tuesday with the signing of former Canadian collegiate player of the year Ibrahima Sanoh. Sanoh, 25, is the all-time record scorer for the Holland College Hurricanes in Prince Edward Island, where he netted 101 goals in 70 games. During his four...
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Concacaf President Victor Montagliani was unsure of what the standard of play would be like in the Canadian Premier League prior to its inaugural season kicking off. But after watching the CPL complete its first campaign, Montagliani admitted he was impressed with the quality of the league...
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York9 FC is bringing back its captain for 2020. Y9 announced on Monday that it has re-signed midfielder Manny Aparicio for next year, a move that sees the club retain one of its key starters and performers from its 2019 CPL campaign. "We’re extremely excited to have Manny who is a leader on and...
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One of the more interesting questions of the CPL off-season is whether Tristan Borges will be back with Forge FC in 2020. Borges, a 21-year-old native of Toronto, enjoyed a breakout campaign this year – his first as a professional – by scoring a league-high 13 goals and tallying five assists to...
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As we descend fully into the transfer season in the Canadian Premier League, all of the clubs around the league have been hard at work trying to assemble their squad for 2020. Only one side, HFX Wanderers FC, has announced new signings so far, but we've had news of contract renewals from almost...
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There's little more Tommy Wheeldon Jr. could have done for Cavalry FC in 2019. He put together a squad that dominated much of the regular season from beginning to end, and the coach of the year honour he took home was just reward for it. Although the ultimate prize eluded Cavalry in Finals 2019...
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The last club championship that Forge FC's Kyle Bekker won prior to hoisting the North Star Shield left a somewhat sour taste in his month. In 2017, Bekker suited up for first-year franchise San Francisco Deltas in the North American Soccer League. The Canadian midfielder was joined by a stable...
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Cavalry FC coach Tommy Wheeldon Jr. is a big fan of the Canadian Championship, so much so that he wants to see more teams involved. The annual competition brings together the top professional clubs from across Canada for the right to hoist the Voyageurs Cup, while also vying to win a berth in...
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Quiet for this entire off-season, Valour FC made a series of roster moves on Friday. The club announced that it has picked up the contract options on defenders Raphaël Garcia and Yohan Le Bourhis. Valour also revealed that midfielders Josip Golubar and Glenn Muenkat, and defender Adam Mitter...
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Canadian Premier League to Launch Fan Awards on December 2nd Fans and Supporters from Coast-to-Coast to Vote for their Favourite Toronto, ON (November 30, 2019) – The Canadian Premier League announced today the CPL Fan Awards that will officially launch on Monday December 2 via the League’s...
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Award season is upon us here at the Canadian Premier League offices, with Forge FC's Tristan Borges cleaning up at the ~official~ version by winning the Golden Boot, U-21, and Player of the Year prizes, and Marco Carducci and Tommy Wheeldon Jr. claiming Goalkeeper and Coach of the Year...
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Charlton Athletic: Roland Duchatelet agrees sale to East Street Investments
Championship side Charlton Athletic are taken over by East Street Investments, subject to approval from the EFL.
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Cavalry FC announced the re-signing of defender Dominick Zator on Thursday, a move that ensures the return of one of the team's key players for the 2020 Canadian Premier League season. Zator, a 25-year-old native of Calgary, racked up over 3,000 minutes across both CPL and Canadian Championship...
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HFX Wanderers FC bolstered their midfield depth on Thursday with the singings of Omar Kreim and Aboubacar Sissoko, one of the top U SPORTS midfield pairings of the past few years The midfield duo has been a central part of the powerhouse Montreal Carabins team that made it to the three...
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TORONTO – At the pinnacle of the Canadian Premier League now stands five pieces of Inuit art. World-renowned artists in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut – a small hamlet just off Baffin Island – saw their work handed out on Tuesday at the 2019 CPL Awards in Toronto. Palaya Qiatsuq, the artist who...
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On the outside looking in again. The Canadian men's national team dropped to 73rd overall and from sixth to seventh in the Concacaf region in the latest FIFA World rankings published on Thursday, falling out of "the Hex" for the upcoming qualifying campaign for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The...
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Tristan Borges is unquestionably the man of the hour in the Canadian Premier League. Fresh off winning the CPL Championship, the Forge FC star collected a hat trick of hardware at the league’s awards ceremony in Toronto this week, claiming the Player of the Year and Best Canadian Under-21 Player...
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City Football Group: Manchester City's parent company buys majority stake in India's Mumbai City FC
Manchester City's parent company - City Football Group - agrees deal to acquire majority stake in Indian side Mumbai City FC.
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