China’s Football Association has banned 43 people for life over allegations of match-fixing and other forms of corruption in the latest effort to weed out graft in the country’s notoriously underperforming team sport.
Algeria international Youcef Atal has been handed an eight-month suspended prison sentence and a 45,000 fine by a court in Nice for a social media repost about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
United States defender Sergiño Dest has confirmed he has torn his ACL and is facing a lengthy spell out of action, ruling him out of the Copa América in the summer.
