Sime Vrsaljko has signed an extension to his Atletico Madrid contract, agreeing a new four-year deal with the Liga side.
The Croatia international, who joined the club from Sassuolo in 2016, has committed his future to Atletico to 2022.
Vrsaljko has started nine LaLiga matches this season, with Diego Simeone s men second in the table, nine points behind leaders Barcelona.
I am very happy to continue growing here, Vrsaljko told Atleti s website.
I feel very comfortable and I only think about working every day to be important for the team.
We’re delighted to announce that Sime has renewed his contract with Atleti until 2022
— Atlético de Madrid (@atletienglish)
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Manchester United will travel to Turkey to face former manager Jose Mourinho s Fenerbahce following the Europa League s revamped draw on Friday.
The new league phase format sees each of the 36 teams play eight games, four at home and four away.
During his two-and-a-half-year spell at United, Mourinho led them to Europa League glory in 2017, beating Ajax 2-0 in the final.
The Red Devils remaining seven games include an all-British home clash against Rangers, welcoming them to Old Trafford for the first time in 14 years, and a trip to another of Mourinho s old clubs, Porto.
Rangers, who have failed to win any of their last 13 games in major European competition against English opposition, will also face Tottenham and Conference League winners Olympiakos.
Erik ten Hag has insisted Marcus Rashford s half-time withdrawal during Manchester United s draw with Porto was down to a need for rotation, not a statement on his performance.
United are still searching for their first Europa League win of the campaign, after Harry Maguire s late header salvaged a 3-3 draw in Porto on Thursday.
After the Red Devils went 2-0 up through early goals from Rashford and Rasmus Hojlund, a strike from Pepe and a brace from Samu Omorodion had put them on the brink of another humiliating defeat.
To cap United s frustrations, captain Bruno Fernandes was shown a red card for a second successive game after also being dismissed in Sunday s 3-0 loss to Tottenham, having never previously been sent off in any of his first 241 games for…
Portugal and France confirmed their places in the quarter-finals of Euro 2024, but both the pre-tournament favourites were far from convincing in doing so.
Roberto Martinez had Diogo Costa to thank for his penalty heroics against Slovenia as the Porto goalkeeper spared Cristiano Ronaldo s blushes in Frankfurt.
Ronaldo saw his spot-kick saved by Jan Oblak in extra time, reducing the five-time Ballon d Or winner to tears at the interval before stepping up to score in the shootout.
Earlier that day, France were aided by the knee of Jan Vertonghen as they squeezed past Belgium in Dusseldorf, with their struggles in front of goal continuing.
This will be the first meeting between the two sides since Euro 2020, in which three of the four goals were scored fr…
Harry Kane should not be blamed for England s embarrassing Euro 2016 showing, with Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino pointing the finger at former boss Roy Hodgson.
England endured a tournament to forget in France, sensationally eliminated by minnows Iceland in the round of 16.
Kane was heavily criticised following England s exit after he failed to score in four matches.
But Pochettino leapt to the defence of his star Tottenham striker ahead of the new Premier League season.
When you analyse England against Iceland there is no reason to lose but football is football and sometimes it s difficult to find the reason. For me, it s difficult to speak about England, Pochettino said.
I was very surprised about the criticism [of Kane] because th…
Phil Foden cemented his place as a Manchester City great after his two goals helped the club to a record-breaking fourth successive Premier League title, according to former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand.
Pep Guardiola s side made history as they maintained their grip on the Premier League trophy following a 3-1 victory over West Ham at the Etihad Stadium on the final day of the season.
Foden recently named the division s Player of the Year played another starring role for the Citizens with a brace, including a 25-yard thunderbolt after just 78 seconds, while Rodri s second-half strike completed the victory.
Ferdinand, who won three consecutive Premier League titles with United between 2007 and 2009, believes the attacking midfielder has joined a panth…
Maxi Gomez insists there is a strong spirit within the Valencia squad despite a turbulent few weeks at Mestalla.
The positivity of last season, when Valencia secured a Champions League spot before beating Barcelona in the Copa del Rey final, has mostly evaporated in the early weeks of 2019-20.
Head coach Marcelino was sacked last month and replaced by Albert Celades, who lost his first match in charge 5-2 away to Barca in LaLiga.
Marcelino suggested he lost his job partly because he won the Copa, a competition he claimed the club s hierarchy considered a distraction from fighting for a Champions League place.
Valencia started their European campaign with a 1-0 win at Chelsea but were dispatched 3-0 at home to Ajax this week on matchday two, meaning they h…
The French economy was boosted to the tune of more than €1.2billion as the country reaped the benefits of hosting Euro 2016.
Ten venues welcomed 24 countries as part of an expanded European Championship, with Portugal eventually beating Didier Deschamps France in the final at the Stade de France.
And a report undertaken jointly by the Limoges-based Centre for Sports Law and Economy (CDES) and the KENEO agency has found that the impact of officials and participating teams, combined with 613,000 visitors, poured €1.22bn into the French coffers.
There is no doubt that hosting a UEFA Euro is a massive financial benefit to any region, said CEO of UEFA Events SA, Martin Kallen, who was also the tournament director for Euro 2016.
UEFA Euro 2016 showed that…
David de Gea saved two penalties for Fiorentina, setting the stage for Albert Gudmundsson to score the winner in a 2-1 victory over Milan.
In a pulsating encounter that saw three missed penalties and two red cards, Fiorentina prevailed to halt Paulo Fonseca s Serie A winning run.
The hosts had the first spot-kick of the game, with Moise Kean s tame effort being kept out by Mike Maignan before the forward had a goal disallowed for offside.
Former Milan midfielder Yacine Adli did break the deadlock soon after, ricocheting a low shot in off the far post from the edge of the box, and De Gea kept them ahead at the break, superbly denying Theo Hernandez from the spot.
Kean had a second goal chalked off for offside in the second half and Milan wasted another g…
Roma boss Jose Mourinho raged at the performance of his side and the officials after a 3-1 loss to Milan at San Siro, before revealing he turned down the opportunity to manage the Rossoneri in 2019.
Roma were 2-0 down inside a dismal opening 15 minutes, while a shambolic end to the match saw their defenders Rick Karsdorp and Gianluca Mancini sent off.
Mourinho, while furious at the nature of Roma s collapse, also sought to apportion blame to the officials, who awarded Milan two penalties. The first was scored by Olivier Giroud, while the latter saw Rui Patricio save from substitute Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The quality of the performance was not good, Mourinho said. We gave away the ball so easily, our performance level was so low, but we were still in the …