Luis Suarez has announced he will retire from international football after Uruguay s World Cup qualifier versus Paraguay on Friday.

Suarez is Uruguay s all-time leading goalscorer, having netted 69 times in 142 appearances, with only Diego Godin (161) winning more caps for La Celeste.

The striker helped Uruguay reach the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup and win their 15th Copa America title in 2011, being named Player of the Tournament as he scored four goals including the opener in the final – a 3-0 victory over Paraguay.

Suarez will face the same opponents in his final international match on Saturday as Marcelo Bielsa s team look to build on a return of 13 points from their first six games in the CONMEBOL World Cup qualification process.

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Andrea Pirlo has been encouraged by the attitude of his Juventus players since their return to training after a home humbling at the hands of Fiorentina brought an awful end to 2020.

Rookie coach Pirlo had been unbeaten in Serie A heading into the final match of last year, with only Juve and leaders Milan yet to taste defeat across Europe s top five leagues at that point.

But the Bianconeri lost that record after they went down 3-0 in Turin following Juan Cuadrado s early red card, just their second home league loss to Fiorentina in 30 years.

A short mid-season break gave the sixth-placed defending champions time to stew on that painful result, which followed a 1-1 draw with Atalanta in their previous home match.

Not since early in the 2015-16 season hav…

Chelsea striker Fernando Torres comes up against former-club Liverpool on Sunday at Stamford Bridge.

This weekend’s Premier League action sees seven games take place on Saturday and three on Sunday.

Everton host Sunderland at Goodison Park in one of the six games that kick-off at 3PM.

Everton have drawn the last four games in the top flight, but remain fourth in the Premier League table.

Midfielder turned target man Marouane Fellaini has been in fantastic goal scoring form for the Toffee’s netting five goals this season. He will be hoping to add to his goal tally against the team from the North East.

Sunderland have been struggling for form in recent months and Steven Fletcher is the only Black Cats player to have found the net this season. S…

Ella Toone says her superb goal helping England triumph in the Euro 2022 final is “still a pinch-me moment” – and the kind of feeling she wants more of as she heads into her first World Cup nearly a year on.

Substitute Toone opened the scoring in the Wembley showdown against Germany with a wonderful lofted effort en route to the 2-1 victory that gave the Lionesses their first ever major trophy.

The 23-year-old Manchester United midfielder told the PA news agency: “It’s still a pinch-me moment – I still sometimes don’t think it’s sunk in.

“But the best feeling I’ve had in football, and one that I want to make sure I have over and over again.

“I’ve had that feeling of what winning is like and I definitely want to make sure that throu…

In one of the most pivotal games on the NFL betting board in Week 18, the Los Angeles Rams face off against the San Francisco 49ers at SoFi Stadium. A Rams loss could result in them falling all the way to the fifth seed in the NFC while the 49ers could be eliminated if they fail to come away with a victory.

With so much at stake in the final week of the regular season here are our best free 49ers vs. Rams NFL picks and predictions for Sunday, January 9, with kickoff at 4:25 p.m. ET. 

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The first NFL games of 2023 will take place on New Year’s Day, with a full slate of 14 contests. Plus, we have an outstanding Monday Night Football matchup to look forward to on Jan. 2, as the Buffalo Bills visit the Cincinnati Bengals.

I’ve managed to narrow things down to four strong sides, which will be divided into two parlay plays. Without further ado, here are my recommended NFL parlay picks for Week 17.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is teaser time!

Sadly, I hate to admit it, but I’m officially out of contention for having a winning teaser record this season after the Jaguars couldn’t cover the NFL odds against the Buccaneers when they got blown out 30-12.

I didn’t see that coming which is often the case when one of your bets gets obliterated. Sometimes, with the benefit of hindsight, you can go back and learn from some bad bets and determine why they should have been avoided. Other times, there’s not much to learn at all and you just need to accept that occasionally “shit happens” and past results don’t always carry over to NFL Week 17 predictions. 

All that said, like teams who are out of playoff contention, I…

For those looking to bet on the Super Bowl Halftime Show odds, the announcement of Kendrick Lamar as the headlining act for Super Bowl 59 is a big one. 

.@kendricklamar. #AppleMusicHalftime. NOLA. 2.9.2025. #SBLIX@applemusic @rocnation @nflonfox pic.twitter.com/Mdx7htWvaO

— NFL (@NFL) September 8, 2024

Sportsbooks cook up fun Super Bowl props for betting markets for every halftime show performance, with betting markets available on sportsbooks for bettors and fans to get in on halftime betting action.

Now that we have a headliner, we’ll wait for some key markets to hit the board.

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Gini Wijnaldum: nice guy, very handsome and not half bad at association football. But things haven’t gone well for the Dutchman since his move to PSG, where just 11 league starts under Mauricio Pochettino mean Wijnaldum is suddenly quite interested in his current manager’s old stomping ground: Tottenham Hotspur.

Antonio Conte is so desperate for signings that he recently played Matt Doherty as a right winger as some form of dirty protest. Wijnaldum is a potential option, but a lot depends on whether PSG and Tottenham can arrange some sort of elaborate swap deal, which could involve any one of Tanguy Ndombele, Dele Alli and Julian Draxler. A Rumour Mill legend, Draxler has been threatening to come to the Premier League for nearly a decade…

1. Sam Kerr starts

The will-she-won’t-she intrigue surrounding Sam Kerr’s fitness or otherwise to start a game again dominated pre-match conversations. By Tuesday afternoon, it appeared the captain would again start on the bench, after coach Tony Gustavsson teased the media with a line about his preference for continuity. It was perhaps with some surprise then to see Kerr’s name in the starting XI for the clash against England, with Emily van Egmond dropping to the bench to make way for the Chelsea striker. But it was a nice surprise nonetheless that gave Australia a huge boost at a critical juncture.

2. A boisterous crowd

Sam Kerr’s World Cup goal gives …