Ward has been in the minors for six seasons, but had not yet been called up to the major leagues. Photos of Vrabel and Russini at a luxury hotel in Arizona, and a subsequent internal investigation, ...

The Puskas Award has quickly become a treasured individual prize in world football. Given to the player who scores the best goal in a calendar year, the honour is not easy to come by, with hundreds of ...

Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Mo Salah are among previous winners of the prize that honours the year's best goal. The FIFA Puskás Award celebrates football's most spectacular goals, with ...

Subscribe to The Athletic using our latest discount code here. Among the goals that didn't make it onto the three-strong shortlist were Linda Caicedo's wonderful solo strike for Colombia against ...