40 year old Santi Carzola has helped his boyhood club, Real Oviedo, seal their return to La Liga after 24 years, following a 3-2 aggregate victory over Mirandés. Oviedo triumphed 3-1 at home in Saturday’s promotion playoff, overturning a first leg deficit with goals from Cazorla, Ilyas Chaira and Francisco Portillo. A packed Estadio Carlos Tartiere erupted as fans stormed the pitch at the final whistle.
Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson was shown a straight red card for a studs up challenge on Ayrton Lucas, just four minutes after coming on as a substitute for new signing Liam Delap in Philadelphia, as Chelsea collapsed to a 3-1 loss at the Club World Cup from a 1-0 lead.
Former Milan and Napoli manager Gennaro Gattuso has been appointed Italy national team coach, the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) confirmed on Sunday. Gattuso replaces Luciano Spalletti, who was sacked last week following a heavy defeat by Norway in a World Cup qualifier. Gattuso will be formally introduced as head coach on Thursday at Rome’s Parco dei Principi Hotel.
Tottenham have appointed Brentford boss, Thomas Frank as their new head coach. The Danish has reportedly signed a contract until 2028, as he leaves Brentford where he had spent seven impressive years in charge.
It took several years, several stars coming and going, eras, legendary eras, but Paris Saint-Germain have finally laid their hands on their first ever Champions League title, and they did so in style, being the first team to ever win the trophy by five goals.
Chelsea Football Club fought back from a goal down to beat Real Betis and win the UEFA Conference League in their first participation in the competition. The Blues had been abysmal for the initial 45 minutes and were deservedly behind at the break after Isco, who ran the opening period, delivered a no look assist to set Abde Ezzalzouli up for a wonderful left footed finish to the bottom corner for the opener inside nine minutes.
Napoli clinched their second Serie A title in three seasons after edging Inter Milan thanks to a 2-0 home victory, with goals from resurgent Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku sealing the win over Cagliari in a dramatic finale to the season on Friday night. It sealed a fourth Italian championship for Napoli, and a record for coach Antonio Conte, who is the first coach to win Serie A with three clubs after earning titles with Inter Milan and Juventus.
Harry Redknapp, Andre Villas-Boas, Tim Sherwood, Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho, Ryan Mason, Nuno Espirito Santo, and Antonio Conte all had 15 years between them at Tottenham Hotspur to bring a trophy to the club. Each failing to do so, due to one excuse or the other, blaming the team’s failure on their mentality or management of the club by the top owners and directors. Ange Postecoglou came into Tottenham, with less hype than all of these managers, and had the club dreamin in the first half of his first season, guiding them to the top of the league for about 10 games, before a terrible defeat bombarded with injuries and suspensions against Chelsea, and that game turned the whole season around negatively, putting them in 5th after 38 games.
Crystal Palace won the first major trophy in the club’s history with victory against Manchester City in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Eberechi Eze was Palace’s hero when he crowned a superb counter attack by sweeping home Daniel Munoz’s cross, 16 minutes into the game.
Barcelona have been crowned champions of LaLiga after a 2-0 win against local rivals Espanyol. Second half goals from sensational Lamine Yamal and precise Fermin Lopez secured a 28th league title for head coach Hansi Flick in his first season in charge, earning him a domestic treble as well.
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