Soccer

PARIS (AP) — Reims returned to winning ways after two straight defeats and scored twice in a commanding first-half performance to beat Strasbourg 2-1 on Friday in the French league.

Toronto FC has exercised the option on six-foot-six centre back Aime Mabika. On Nov.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The longest, busiest, most grueling season in Major League Soccer history is almost over for Los Angeles FC. And there's still a chance to end it with a trophy.

BERLIN (AP) — Cologne moved off the bottom of the Bundesliga on Friday with a much-needed 1-0 win at Darmstadt. Davie Selke got the goal that mattered early in the second half.

LONDON (AP) — Forest Green’s FA Cup match with Blackpool has been called off because of a Football Association investigation, the fourth-tier English soccer club announced Friday.

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — The College of Saint Rose's women's soccer team will have an unusual distinction. It never lost a game in what will be its final season.

PARIS (AP) — France coach Didier Deschamps won't attend Saturday’s draw for next year’s European Championship after undergoing surgery.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — After a record-breaking start as Tottenham manager, Ange Postecoglou is experiencing the other side to life in a job that has proved too much for some of the biggest names in soccer.

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Aston Villa filed a complaint with UEFA on Friday over the conduct of Legia Warsaw officials and the “unprecedented violence” of the Polish team's fans outside Villa Park.

LANGFORD, B.C. — As the clock counts down on Christine Sinclair's international career, her teammates and coach say their intensely private captain is trying to make the best of being squarely in the spotlight. "She doesn't love the attention.