Soccer

MILAN (AP) — AC Milan took the first formal step Wednesday to moving away from the iconic San Siro, which it shares with Inter Milan, and building a new stadium in the southern part of the city.

MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid got back to winning ways by beating Las Palmas 2-0 on Wednesday while Girona is top of the Spanish league after its sixth straight victory.

NEWCASTLE, England — Manchester City seems to win every competition it enters these days except the English League Cup.

MILAN (AP) — Inter Milan saw its perfect start to the Serie A season come to an end as it fell to a surprise 2-1 loss at home to Sassuolo on Wednesday.

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Former hard-tackling midfielder Gennaro Gattuso was hired as coach of French club Marseille on Wednesday.

WIESBADEN, Germany (AP) — Two-time defending champion Leipzig withstood a stirring fightback to squeeze into the second round of the German Cup with a 3-2 win at second-division Wehen Wiesbaden on Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — National Women's Soccer League expansion franchise Bay FC has named Albertin Montoya as its head coach.

LAGOA SANTA, Brazil (AP) — When Brazilian soccer player Paulinho scored a goal at the Tokyo Olympics, he celebrated by pointing an imaginary arrow at the flashing cameras as homage to a deity in his persecuted Afro-Brazilian faith – and taking aim at

LONDON (AP) — Chelsea defender Reece James has been charged by the FA for an alleged altercation with a match official, English soccer's governing body said Wednesday.

MADRID (AP) — Former Spain women’s national team coach Jorge Vilda has been summoned to appear before a judge in the probe involving former soccer federation president Luis Rubiales for his kissing a player on the lips after the team won the Women's