Soccer

LONDON (AP) — Liverpool is no stranger to triumph on the sports field, or tragedy off it.

Coach Casey Stoney has called in Montreal Roses forward Latifah Abdu to replace injured Kansas City Current striker Nichelle Prince for the upcoming home series against Haiti. Abdu is the second replacement summoned.

MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid great Raúl González is leaving his role as a coach in the club's youth academy. The 47-year-old Raúl spent seven years in the academy and coached several youth teams in the 2018-19 season.

PRAGUE (AP) — Former Arsenal midfielder Tomáš Rosický was hospitalized in an intensive care unit last week for an unspecified heart-related problem.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — That Pope Leo XIV is a Chicago White Sox fan and likes to play tennis has already been established.

NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Newcastle is losing another sporting director after the Premier League club announced Paul Mitchell is stepping down next month.

BREMEN, Germany (AP) — Werder Bremen fired coach Ole Werner on Tuesday after he indicated the day before he would not be extending his contract next year.

LONDON (AP) — England goalkeeper Mary Earps surprisingly retired from international soccer on Tuesday, just five weeks before the Women's European Championship.

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — The longest-serving coach in any major men's European soccer league has written another chapter in a remarkable career. Now he just wants a rest.

Soccer clubs, players and the sport's governing bodies expressed sympathy and support to Liverpool on Monday after a man plowed a car into a crowd of the team's fans who were celebrating its Premier League title success in the city center.