Football

4:00 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Welcome to the ESPN FC hotlist, which each month highlights some of the most in-form talent aged 23 or under across Europe. Generally, young but established stars like Manchester City‘s Erling Haaland, Borussia Dortmund‘s Jude Bellingham or Barcelona‘s Gavi aren’t included — otherwise they’d be on the list every month

5:00 AM ET Ian DarkeESPN.com writer Close Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is ESPN lead soccer voice in the United States. He has covered the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League since 1982, and has one of the world’s most recognizable soccer voices.

11:13 AM ET Associated Press Owners and directors of English Premier League clubs can be disqualified for human rights abuses, the organisation said Thursday. The league announced changes to its owners’ and directors’ test (OADT), which include new rules that will give it power to remove leading officials who contravene them. As well as human

3:16 PM ET Bayern Munich‘s reign in the Bundesliga is threatened. They just panic-fired their manager with two months left in the season. They’re facing more uncertainty than they have in quite a while. They remain as Bayern as ever, though: still prolific, still the betting favorite (and the No. 2 favorite in the Champions

4:00 AM ET Only two outcomes await Arsenal from their position atop the Premier League table: agony or ecstasy. The club’s supporters lurch helplessly between the two extremes, contemplating the glory of a first title since 2003-04’s “Invincibles” and the ignominy of losing the eight-point lead they will hold on April 1. This roller coaster

12:12 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Maguire is stuck in a tough position: indispensable for England, but a bench player for Man United. What should he do from here? Michael Regan – The FA/The FA via Getty Images After playing every minute of England‘s two Euro qualifiers during the international break, Harry Maguire will face a familiar

11:16 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United are planning to step up contract talks with Marcus Rashford before the end of the season, sources have told ESPN. United triggered a one-year option in Rashford’s contract in December which will keep him at Old Trafford until 2024 but the club are keen to agree a long-term

7:00 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen The world’s best male players are getting younger, but is it finally time to crown successors to the legendary Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo? For the fifth straight year (read 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 here), ESPN brings you our list of the game’s next top young stars aged 21

7:57 PM ET Adriana Garcia Lionel Messi became just the third male player to score 100 international goals as he hit his century in the first half of Argentina‘s friendly with Curacao on Tuesday. The Paris Saint-Germain forward picked up the ball in the middle of the area, cut to his right hit a low

4:13 PM ET In its first competitive matches since the World Cup, the United States men’s national team beat Grenada (7-1) and El Salvador (1-0) to advance to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Nations League in June in Las Vegas. Given the sizable talent discrepancy in both matches, two wins was the overwhelming expectation, but

4:30 AM ET Tottenham‘s marriage of convenience with manager Antonio Conte is over. The story of his 16 months as head coach is one of perpetual internal tension, an awkward alliance founded on a mutual desire to win silverware urgently yet never in agreement about how to actually achieve it. Spurs thought they knew what

9:52 PM ET ORLANDO — The United States men’s national team progressed to the CONCACAF Nations League finals, though it made hard work of defeating El Salvador 1-0. Ricardo Pepi scored the all-important goal just moments after coming on as a second half substitute, and with the U.S. proving resolute in defense, that was enough

7:00 PM ET The United States men’s national team finishes up this international break with a CONCACAF Nations League contest against El Salvador in Orlando. The U.S. lead Monday night’s guests in Group D with seven points from three matches, giving Anthony Hudson’s team a two-point advantage over El Salvador heading into the match. Don’t

6:27 AM ET Daniel Levy has appointed 11 full-time managers at Tottenham Hotspur and fired every single one of them, with Antonio Conte the latest through the exit door after the club confirmed his inevitable departure on Sunday night. Conte is simply the latest high-profile coach to be the fall guy for the longest-serving chairman

4:06 PM ET CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla. — Interim United States coach Anthony Hudson said he hasn’t given any thought to whether he’d be interested in taking on the job full-time. Hudson has been serving as interim manager since predecessor Gregg Berhalter’s contract expired at the end of last year. Since then he’s overseen a 2-1 loss

5:31 PM ET Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte is leaving the club by mutual consent following a postmatch rant on March 18 in which he criticised the club’s players, owner and winning mentality. In their statement, Tottenham said that Cristian Stellini would oversee the team in an interim role for the remainder of the season.

8:12 AM ET Adriana Garcia Lionel Messi has been honoured by the Argentina Football Association who have renamed the national team’s headquarters after him. Messi, who captained Argentina to as they lifted the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, has made 173 appearances for the Albiceleste since making his debut in 2005. – Stream on ESPN+:

6:00 AM ET Harry Kane has eclipsed Wayne Rooney to become England‘s all-time top goal scorer, but he is still battling to avoid the same fate as his predecessor. Rooney was among the first to congratulate the 29-year-old striker after his record-breaking 54th goal in Thursday’s 2-1 win over Italy, a moment that has been