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New York Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Bayern Munich vs Flamengo Box Score - June 29, 2025
K. Laimer is forced to leave the match due to injury, replaced by T. Müller. Yellow card given to K. Laimer for a foul. Yellow card given to J. Musiala for a foul. Yellow card given to H. Kane for a foul. H. Kane scores with right footed shot from the center of the box. Assist from J. Kimmich. Yellow card given to J. Kimmich for a foul. Yellow card given to Wesley for a foul. K. Coman is forced to leave the match due to injury, replaced by L. Sané. Jorginho scores with right footed shot from penalty. Yellow card given to Allan for a foul. E. Pulgar is forced to leave the match due to injury, replaced by Allan. Yellow card given to G. Plata for arguing. Yellow card given to J. Tah for arguing. Yellow card given to E. Pulgar for a foul. L. Goretzka scores with right footed shot from outside the box. Gerson scores with left footed shot from the center of the box. Assist from G. de Arrascaeta. H. Kane scores with left footed shot from outside the box. Assist from D. Upamecano. Bayern Munich is awarded a goal due to an own goal conceded by E. Pulgar, Flamengo. Errors Leading to Goal / Errors Leading to Shot xGOT (Expected goals on target) Faced Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Errors Leading to Goal / Errors Leading to Shot xGOT (Expected goals on target) Faced Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Aerials Won / Aerials Total Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Chances Created in Open Play / Chances Created Expected Assists / Assists Passes Completed / Total Passes Attempted Take Ons Completed / Take Ons Recent Matches
New York Times
5 days ago
- General
- New York Times
Better Half
On Wednesday, we will be exactly halfway through the year — 182 days on either side of July 2, the precise midpoint of 2025. I've never clocked this date before: the year's high noon, the moment when the teeter-totter is perfectly parallel to the pavement. There's something satisfying about having exactly as much road behind you as you have before you. Look over your shoulder. Where have you been? And where on earth are you going? We usually make resolutions for the year on Jan. 1, in the grip of winter. The delirium of the holidays has concluded, it's cold and likely gray outside, we are quite possibly hungover. Here's where we traditionally set our goals for the year to come, in this depleted state. I've long endorsed the Always Be Resolving approach to change — you don't need a special day in order to declare a resolution. But it does feel administratively appropriate to do it on the first day of the calendar year, when the months unfurl before us like an unpainted canvas. This year, I propose July 2 for a sunnier moment at which to take stock of the year so far and, if it feels right, to make some achievable resolutions for the second half of the year. The sun is out. We're in summer mode, a little less coiled up than we might have been in January. Our resolutions might be more self-compassionate, more optimistic than they were in winter. Think of it as a resolution reset. When Dec. 31 arrives, how do you want your life to be a little different? Perhaps there's something you resolved on Jan. 1 that you've fallen behind on and you want to reframe it for the back half of the year. Maybe there's something you've been meaning to do and six months is the perfect window in which to achieve it. I'm skeptical of New Year's resolutions as they're usually executed: Here's a way in which you're falling short. No more horsing around, now it's time to straighten up and fly right. The Summer Reset (if I capitalize it, it feels more official) is a different practice. These pronouncements should be summer-tinged, with an emphasis on possibility over punishment. A friend recently told me she'd resolved to ask 'Does this make my life bigger?' before she made any decision. I might try this one. You might resolve to spend more time with people around whom you feel like the best version of yourself. Let the resolutions be additive, celebratory, exciting. Make them about increasing joy, about being new and radiant and more enthusiastic about the things and people you love. Happy New Half of the Year. Let's make it the best half yet. Yesterday was the final decision day of the Supreme Court's term. The justices made it count, releasing rulings that will affect presidential power, immigrants, schoolchildren, health care and more. German Lopez explains the highlights: Limits on universal injunctions: At face value, this case was about President Trump's attempts to end birthright citizenship. But the court didn't say much on that issue. Instead, it focused on lower courts' ability to stop the president's actions through injunctions that halt presidential policies nationwide. Members of both parties have complained that lower-court judges have too much power. The court agreed, in a 6-3 decision. It cited history: When Congress created the lower courts in 1789, it did not give these judges the power to impose their decisions on the rest of the country. Instead, they can grant relief only to the plaintiffs of the case they're hearing. So a lower court can, for example, stop Trump from imposing his birthright citizenship order on the immigrants or states that file a lawsuit. But everyone who didn't file the suit remains unprotected from the president's orders, with some exceptions. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
The Guardian
5 days ago
- Sport
- The Guardian
The weird, wonderful and woeful from a stormy Club World Cup
Have you ever had that dream where you're playing for your favourite team, thrown on in a desperate bid to find a goal? And the game is against a side you've never heard of, part of some arcane tournament that's suddenly of vital importance? Oh, and it's being played in your parents' back garden? Just us? Well, that's the closest parallel we could think up for Copa Gianni, where the group stages have served up the weird, wonderful and woeful in equal measure. If you haven't been paying attention, here are some 'highlights' so far. Goals, goals, goals: Let's be honest, if you're a neutral tuning in on a weekday afternoon, or in the dead of night, you want to see goals – and Copa Gianni has certainly delivered. There have been 148 in 48 games, a reliable ratio of more than three per game. We've seen seven-goal shootouts (Mamelodi 3-4 Dortmund, Juventus 2-5 Manchester City), an eight-goal epic (Porto 4-4 Al Ahly) and, er, a 10-goal classic (Bayern Munich 10-0 Auckland City). There's been quality to match the quantity too, with highlights from Kenan Yildiz, Miguel Merentiel, Mamelodi's Lucas Ribeiro channeling 80s Brazil and of course, Lionel Messi. Attacking flair, dodgy playing surfaces and a relaxed attitude to defending have given the tournament a fun, knockabout pre-season feel that will please casual fans, and wound Gianni Infantino to his core. Everyone's a winner! Brilliant Brazil: The notion that Copa Gianni and its many predecessors don't really matter that much is a profoundly European point of view. South American sides have generally quite fancied the idea of being the world's best team, even if in recent times it's been the Euro giants picking up the trophy each year with a collective shrug. Might that change in the new, expanded format? Brazil's quartet of sides have been magnificent: all four are into the last 16, with one defeat in 12 games and just nine goals conceded collectively, rebuffing a few stereotypes about shapeless 'samba football' on the way. Crowd confusion: South American teams have brought along thousands of noisy, passionate fans that have genuinely saved things from becoming a total embarrassment. There have been some big attendances – 60,927 people can tell their grandkids they saw Al Ahly 0-0 Inter Miami – but also some near-empty grounds. There were just 3,412 fans at Camping World Stadium in Orlando to see Mamelodi Sundowns defeat Ulsan HD, a sentence which sums up why CG '25 is simply not an elite-level tournament, no matter how much Infantino waves his gold key around. Extreme weather: The biggest crowd so far – 80,619 – was at the Rose Bowl to see PSG thump Atlético Madrid 4-0. The problem was that temperatures soared to 31C for a 12pm kick-off, with supporters claiming they were told to dispose of full water bottles before entering the venue. 'There was no way to simply buy water,' sweated one, while another declared that attending was 'the worst mistake'. The heat almost drove Diego Simeone to go full Jackie Charlton on the touchline, and it wasn't just in Pasadena. Dortmund subs retreated to the dressing room to watch the end of their game, while the threat of storms caused five games to be delayed. The underdogs: Auckland City earned their place in the draw by winning Oceania's Big Cup, but they are not even the best team in their home city. Auckland FC recently topped Australia's flamin' A-League table, but are ineligible for either AFC or OFC competitions. Instead, New Zealand's finest amateur side jetted off to the USA USA USA – those who could get the time off work, anyway – and lost 10-0 to Bayern and 6-0 to Benfica. They restored pride with a very creditable 1-1 draw against Boca Juniors, but reports suggest the team want head coach and dentist Paul Posa to be replaced – in part because he had never heard of Benfica's World Cup-winning defender, Nicolás Otamendi. Other underdogs made a better impression: South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns were a goal from going through, Mexico's Monterrey – led by Sergio Ramos – sent River Plate home, and plucky Saudi outfit Al-Hilal showed up Real Madrid. At Copa Gianni, dreams really do come true. It helped playing with my brothers all the time … I went to Arsenal and trained at the boys' academy. It took a few sessions because at first they were like: 'There's a girl with us.' But when they got to realise what I could do, they accepted me' – England's Lauren James gets her chat on with Donald McRae in this in-depth interview. Mike Todd's pedantry about Newky Brown (yesterday's Football Daily letters) has piqued my curiosity. Can anyone at Football Daily Towers confirm if Purple Tin also comes in a bottle? – Weird Unc Frankie Dodds. It was a bit sad to be reminded of how Lee Carsley had been overlooked for the England manager gig (yesterday's Football Daily). There is another successful, highly experienced and obviously well-qualified candidate that most commentators never seem to mention as worthy of consideration. Someone who clearly is a born leader, is totally media savvy, and has a successful international track record including the first trophy for a senior England team since 1966. Sarina Wiegman. I wonder why? – Steve Malone. It would be interesting if, instead of meaningless friendlies, youth sides could play their senior counterparts for the right to represent England at a given tournament. If Carsley's unit beat Thomas Tuchel's, then the winning manager gets to take his squad to a tournament – Mark Pearson. Re: yesterday's Quotes of the Day. Clearly Emiliano Viviano has never visited Britain' – Gareth Rogers. Please send your letters to Today's winner of our letter o' the day competition is … Mark Pearson, who gets some Football Weekly merch. We'll be in touch. Terms and conditions for our competitions, when we run them, can be viewed here. It's just who he is, er, buddy? Ange Postecoglou's job search may take him to LAFC, last seen being largely useless at Copa Gianni. Big Ange to make the biggest Aussie splash in Tinseltown since Mel Gibson started wielding his lethal weaponry or Hugh Jackman put on his X-Men suit? Should he be a Beverly Hills flop in his first season, the club's owners – the usual mix of billionaires, venture capitalists and Will Ferrell – can be certain the second will deliver silverware. The current manager, Steve Cherundolo, is doing one at the end of the MLS season, so the door is open. Other Ange options? The Saudi Pro League at Asian Big Cup winners, Al-Ahli – or replacing Steve Clarke in the Scotland job. Ruud van Nistelrooy has left his job as Leicester's manager after a miserable 27-game spell which brought relegation from the Premier League. Sean Dyche is among the frontrunners to replace him, though he could well be living it up at Glastonbury this weekend. Robbie Savage is poised to leave Macclesfield FC – where he is part-owner – to become Forest Green Rovers' new manager. Savage, who said it 'would take an awful lot for me to leave' back in March, will have to wait to seal the deal – because Forest Green owner Dale Vince is also at Worthy Farm. Keith Andrews will replace Thomas Frank as Brentford manager, with his appointment expected to be announced in the coming days. Andrews will be just the third Republic of Ireland-born Premier League manager, following in the footsteps of Joe Kinnear and Roy Keane, who probably isn't at Glasto. Arsenal are chasing defensive reinforcements and could move for Valencia centre-back Cristhian Mosquera. Nottingham Forest's hopes of signing Juve duo Timothy Weah and Samuel Mbangula for just under £20m are over, after the pair rejected the move. Bernardo Silva is the first captain directly appointed by Pep Guardiola in his coaching career, and he described slipping on the Manchester City armband as 'one of the greatest moments' in his footballing life. And Silva helped City thrash Juve 5-2 to top Group G and set up a last-16 clash with Al-Hilal at Copa Gianni, while the Italians will face Real Madrid next. Our Euro 2025 team guides continue, with Denmark facing a tough task to get out of a group featuring a resurgent Germany (and Sweden). And in case you missed it, here's our brilliant interactive guide to all 368 players at the tournament, too. Enzo Fernández has been Chelsea's best player at Copa Gianni and is starting to repay his hefty price tag, writes Jacob Steinberg. Three Rio de Janeiro clubs and São Paolo's Palmeiras have all made it to Copa Gianni's last 16 – and Brazil's run may not stop there, write Tom Sanderson and Josué Seixas. Africa's quartet brought plenty of entertainment, but none advanced from the group stages and reform is needed, reports Paul MacInnes. Could Eberechi Eze head north of the river? Arsenal and Tottenham are both grabbing at his sleeve, according to Friday's Rumour Mill. And finally, here are 10 star players from the European Under-21s to spice up your next Football Manager 25 26 save. The date of 27 June is a notable one in English football history: back in 2010, Frank Lampard's goal did not stand against Germany as England crashed out of the World Cup last 16, losing 4-1. Six years later, at the same stage of Euro 2016, it was England 1-2 Iceland. Ah, memories.
BBC News
25-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Who will contribute the most next season for Chelsea?
Since the turn of the year, Enzo Fernandez has been contributing more in goals and assists than any other Chelsea talisman Cole Palmer is joint fourth alongside youngster Tyrique George and behind Fernandez and Pedro Neto for goal contributions in who will be the one to top these charts next season? One of these four or someone else?Make your choice...
New York Times
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
38 things you might not have known about Lionel Messi for his 38th birthday
This article was originally published for Lionel Messi's 36th birthday in 2023, then re-published for his 37th last year and has now been updated to mark him turning 38. Argentina and Inter Miami's Lionel Messi is 38 today (Tuesday, June 24) and to help him celebrate, The Athletic has compiled 38 different stats, facts and pieces of trivia about one of the greatest footballers of all time. How many hat-tricks has the Argentinian scored? Has he ever been sent off? How many trophies has he picked up during his glittering senior career? We've got all that and more covered right here… 1) Messi scored 672 goals for Barcelona — more than anyone has ever scored for one top-level club. The previous record had been held by Pele, who got 643 for Brazilian side Santos from 1956 to 1974. Like Messi, Pele moved to the United States to play in his mid-thirties (Pele joined the New York Cosmos). Advertisement 2) Messi has scored 866 goals in his career so far — 672 for Barcelona, 32 for Paris Saint-Germain, 50 for Inter Miami and 112 for Argentina. The breakdown by body part used to score them is left foot: 725; right foot: 109; head: 28; chest: two; hip: one; hand: one. His very own 'Hand of God' goal came against Espanyol in June 2007. 3) Messi scored 91 times for club and country in 2012 (in 69 games), which is the most goals ever scored in a calendar year by a top-level player. He surpassed German great Gerd Muller's total of 85 from 1972. 4) Messi has scored more goals in Europe's 'Big Five' leagues than anyone else in history. His final goal for Paris Saint-Germain, against Strasbourg, in May 2023 was the 496th league goal of his European career, and pushed him past Cristiano Ronaldo's 495 in Europe's biggest leagues. 5) Messi has won the Ballon d'Or a record eight times — three more than any other player. He was voted the world's best in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023. 6) Messi is the only player to win the Golden Ball (awarded to the World Cup's best player) twice. He did so in 2014 in Brazil, when Argentina lost to Germany in the final, and then again in Qatar in 2022, when he finally achieved his lifetime ambition of winning the competition. 7) Messi has scored 50 or more club goals in a season on six occasions. His highest total is the 73 he got for Barcelona in 2011-12. Despite this, Barca failed to win either La Liga or the Champions League in that campaign (but they did win the Copa del Rey and the old, far-smaller annual version of the Club World Cup). 8) Miami's highest-profile footballing resident scored more goals for Barcelona (672) than the number of votes George W. Bush beat Al Gore by in Florida in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election (537). The Sunshine State's population at the time was 16 million. 9) Messi moved across the world from Argentina to Barcelona to join the Spanish club's famed La Masia academy when he was just 13 years old. He made his competitive first-team debut for Barcelona in October 2004 and won 35 trophies before moving to PSG in 2021. Advertisement 10) Messi has scored 112 goals for Argentina — which makes him one of just three men to reach three figures in international football. The two others are Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal (138) and Ali Daei for Iran (108). 11) At the 2022 World Cup, the Argentina captain scored in the groups, the last 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, becoming the first player since the tournament introduced a last-16 stage (after the groups) in 1986 to score in every round in a single edition of the competition. 12) Messi has scored eight hat-tricks in the Champions League — more than Raul, Thierry Henry, Wayne Rooney, Mohamed Salah, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Robin van Persie, Ronaldo (the Brazilian one), Romelu Lukaku, Thomas Muller, David Trezeguet, Luis Suarez, Edinson Cavani, Diego Costa, Hernan Crespo, Gonzalo Higuain, Alvaro Morata, Antoine Griezmann, Nicolas Anelka, Leroy Sane, Ciro Immobile, Fernando Torres, Christian Vieri and Diego Forlan combined. 13) As a 10-year-old, Messi was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency, which prompted fears he would not be tall enough to make it as a footballer. However, he underwent growth hormone treatment and eventually reached a height of 5ft 7in (170cm). 14) That height makes him two inches (five centimetres) shorter than the average American man and nearly two feet shorter than former Miami Heat NBA player Manute Bol (7ft 6in). 15) Messi is one of a handful of players to complete the treble in Europe twice. He won La Liga, Copa del Rey and the Champions League in the 2008-09 season with Barcelona, then did it again in 2014-15. He scored 38 goals in the first of those campaigns and 58 in the second. 16) Messi also has an Olympic gold medal. The Argentinian helped his country win the men's football tournament in China in 2008 by scoring two goals and started in the final as they beat Nigeria 1-0. Angel Di Maria, who, along with Messi scored in the 2022 World Cup final, netted the only goal of that game. Advertisement 17) In total, Messi has scored 59 hat-tricks during his career, 48 for Barcelona, one for Inter Miami and 10 for Argentina. His first came as a 19-year-old, against Real Madrid in a 3-3 draw in La Liga in March 2007. 18) Messi accounts for seven per cent of all the goals scored in Barcelona's men's first team's entire history (672 out of 9,606). The Spanish club have existed for 125 years and the Argentinian spent only 17 years playing for them. 19) Despite scoring 866 goals in his career, Messi has never found the net in the first minute of a match. 20) Messi was sent off on his debut for Argentina. In August 2005, as an 18-year-old, he was shown a red card less than two minutes after coming off the bench against Hungary for elbowing Vilmos Vanczak. In total, he has been dismissed three times in his career (once for Barcelona and twice for Argentina). 21) In his club career, Messi has won 40 trophies (35 at Barcelona, three at Paris Saint-Germain and two at Inter Miami). This works out as a piece of silverware every 22 club appearances. 22) The most goals Messi has scored in a game is five. He has done this twice — for Barcelona against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League in March 2012 and for Argentina against Estonia in a June 2022 friendly. 23) The triumph over France in the World Cup final in December 2022 was the 26th match Messi has played at the World Cup, surpassing Lothar Matthaus' record of 25 for West Germany and Germany. 24) Messi playing in that tournament meant he had featured at five World Cups — a record shared with Mexican trio Antonio Carbajal, Rafael Marquez and Andres Guardado, Matthaus and Portugal's Ronaldo. 25) Messi's Argentina career has (so far) lasted 15,947 minutes — which is the equivalent of more than 11 whole days. Driving non-stop, you could do the near-6,000 mile round-trip from Miami to Calgary in Canada and back again three times in that period. 26) The Argentinian has scored against 38 different sides in his international career. The nation he has found the net against the most is Bolivia, with 11. None of those goals have come in Bolivia, however. 27) Messi has played 193 times for Argentina, which is both a national record and a South American one. He is fourth on the list of most international appearances by male players. 28) The club he has scored against most often during his career are Spanish side Sevilla with 38. 29) Messi hasn't always worn the famous No 10 shirt for his country. He has played in both the No 18 and No 19 jerseys for Argentina. His most recent international appearance not wearing No 10 was a friendly against France in February 2009 as the No 18. Advertisement 30) Messi has scored 27 goals against English clubs in the Champions League — seven more than any other player. The English side he has scored against the most are Arsenal with nine. 31) He has scored 68 free kicks during his career (50 for Barcelona, two for PSG, five for Inter Miami and 11 for Argentina). 32) Messi has played more games at Copa America than anybody else in history, with 39 appearances in the competition. He surpassed the previous record mark set by Sergio Livingstone, the Chilean goalkeeper in the 1940s and 1950s, at the 2024 edition of the tournament. 33) Messi, on his own, almost outscored English club Sunderland during the 2010s. The team from the north-east of England spent eight seasons in the Premier League during that decade. periodic reminder that Messi very nearly outscored Sunderland in the 2010s — Duncan Alexander (@oilysailor) December 18, 2022 34) The most consecutive club games Messi has scored in is 10, achieved with Barcelona in the 2012-13 season when he was 25 years old. 35) The most consecutive club games Messi has gone without scoring is 12, in the 2006-07 season at the age of 19. He broke that barren run in spectacular style with a Clasico hat-trick against Madrid. 36) Messi has the most-liked Instagram post ever, with his celebratory photo after winning the 2022 World Cup getting more than 74.6 million likes to date. It has 14 million more likes than the second-most popular Instagram post, which is a photo of an egg. 37) On May 4, 2024, Messi became the first player in MLS history to provide five assists in a match. Playing for Miami against New York Red Bulls at home, the playmaker set up Matias Rojas in the 48th and 62nd minutes and his old Barcelona team-mate Luis Suarez in the 69th, 75th and 81st minutes. 38) Messi has played 1,108 professional games in his career — 778 for Barcelona, 75 for Paris Saint-Germain, 62 for Inter Miami and 193 for Argentina.
