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Former Croatian captain Niko Kovac has signed on for another two years with his club Red Bull Salzburg, but in a new capacity as coach of the youth team, the club announced Tuesday.

The 37-year-old former midfielder was to begin training the youth team of the Austrian league champions immediately, Red Bull Salzburg said on its website.

Kovac announced his retirement as a player on May 29 after already quitting the national side in January, having won 83 caps and scoring 15 goals between 1996 and 2008.

He will play his last game in a friendly match against his former team Bayern Munich on July 10 in Salzburg.

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Son Heung-min hopes his historic 100th Premier League goal will inspire players across Asia, having reached his century in Tottenham s 2-1 win over Brighton and Hove Albion.

Son gave Spurs the lead with a terrific strike into the top-right corner on Saturday, with Harry Kane later hitting the winner after Lewis Dunk equalised for the Seagulls.

The South Korea international became the first Asian player to reach 100 Premier League goals with his strike, as well as the first player to hit 100 goals and register 50 assists for Spurs in the competition.

Speaking to BBC Sport after the crucial victory over Spurs top-six rivals, Son dedicated his landmark goal to his late grandfather and outlined his hope that more Asian players will follow in his footsteps.

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Sporting KC scored three first-half goals on their way to a 4-1 win at LAFC to claim top spot in the Western Conference in the MLS on Wednesday.

Alan Pulido, Luis Martins and Daniel Salloi all scored within 16 minutes as KC raced to a 3-0 lead. Salloi s classy volley took his tally to nine goals this MLS season.

Israeli midfielder Gadi Kinda added a fourth in the 58th minute with Graham Zusi getting his second assist, before LAFC got a consolation from Danny Musovski.

The win lifted Sporting KC past Seattle Sounders who conceded in the 90th minute to draw 1-1 at home with Dallas.

Fredy Montero had put the Sounders ahead in the 72nd minute with a set-piece header but Dallas equalised from Franco Jara s 90th-minute close-range strike.

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Crotone travel to Serie A runners up Napoli hoping to claim vital three points in their survival fight and perform a great escape at the eleventh hour.

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They have been applauded and lauded all season long for their high-tempo style of play and exhilarating football which earned them so many fans around the world but in the end, Napoli have little to be happy about as the 2017-18 season draws to a close.

Partenopei have once again failed to mount a Serie A challenge and turned their Scudetto marathon into a sprint, which left them without a breath in a crucial stage of the competition. Maurizio Sarri claimed his team lost the Serie A title in a hotel watching Juventus score two goals in …

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Looking to extend on their Premiership purple patch on Friday night, Aberdeen will make the trip to Victoria Park when they meet Ross County.

Starting with the hosts, managing to make what was a much-needed return to winning ways last weekend, Ross County will now be hoping to find some Premiership stability over the final few weeks. Eventually picking up a deserved 2-0 victory away at St. Johnstone, Malky Mackay’s side also drew a line under their three-match losing run. Marking their return from the international break with a 2-0 loss at home against Celtic, the Stages have failed to collect back-to-back domestic victories since opening 2023. Likewise, losing consecutive top-flight appearances at Victoria Park, the one-tim…

Walter Mazzarri wants reigning Serie A champions Napoli to buck the trend of recording underwhelming results and kick on in 2024, starting with a positive result at his former club Torino on Sunday.

The Azzurri claimed a first Scudetto since 1990 last season but are now languishing down in eighth after losing four of their last seven games, with last week’s goalless draw at home to Monza summing up the current sense of malaise in Naples.

Defending their crown may look a tall order, with leaders Inter Milan already 20 points better off, but Mazzarri just wants to start delivering better performances for the fans.

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Real Madrid full-back Fabio Coentrao has requested a transfer, manager Carlos Ancelotti has revealed.

The Portugal international has struggled to nail down a regular first-team spot since arriving from Benfica in 2011, making 53 appearances in all competitions.

Coentrao has been linked with a move to Tottenham as a potential makeweight in any move for Gareth bale, but he now looks set to depart the Bernabeu, regardless of Madrid s pursuit of the Welshman.

Chelsea have also been credited with an interest in the 25-year-old and Ancelotti confirmed the left-back will not feature in Real s Liga opener against Real Betis on Sunday.

Coentrao has asked to leave the club and won’t be playing tomorrow (Sunday), he said.

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Juventus face a tough ask in returning to winning ways in Serie A when the fourth-placed Sampdoria visit Turin on Sunday.

Successive 0-0 draws have slowed the momentum of Juve, who previously won six matches in a row scoring 19 times in the process.

But their goalless stalemate against Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday was crucial as it booked their place in the last 16.

Juve are the only Serie A side remaining in Europe s premier club competition and showed good character to qualify after losing two of their first three Group A matches.

They dominated an Atleti side who were happy to sit back and concede possession but lacked cutting edge something coach Massimiliano Allegri will be keen to address.

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Mesut Ozil should be benched for Germany s second World Cup group game against Sweden, according to Stefan Effenberg.

Arsenal midfielder Ozil played the full 90 minutes as Germany slipped to a 1-0 defeat to Mexico in their Group F opener – the side s first competitive defeat since their semi-final exit from Euro 2016 when they lost 2-0 to France.

Effenberg questioned Germany head coach Joachim Low s decision not to include second-half substitute Marco Reus in his starting line-up, calling for the Borussia Dortmund man to be in from the outset against Sweden.

Low should put Ozil on the bench and bring in Marco Reus instead, Effenberg wrote in his column on t-online.de.  I could not understand why Reus did not play against Mexico from the start.

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West Ham United are readying a £25m bid for Bournemouth striker Callum Wilson, .

The twenty-four old has been eyed the former Coventry City man as a potential January target as he looks for reinforcements following an injury to Diafra Sakho.

Wilson missed the majority of last season with an ACL injury but has impressed since returning, scoring four goals in twelve league appearances so far this term.

He bagged twenty league goals for the Cherries in his first season with the club, helping them clinch the Championship title in 2015.

West Ham sit just a point above the Premier League relegation zone following their 1-1 draw with Manchester United on Sunday afternoon.

They were beaten by the Red Devils in the last eight of the EFL Cup on Wedne…