Nottingham Forest manager Vitor Pereira praises Chris Wood's character and connection with his teammates, after the New Zealand striker returned from a six month injury layoff in Forest's 1-1 draw with Aston Villa.

Florida venues locked in for England's friendlies prior to World Cup 2026

NOT content with bombing Iran, the Americans are now hell-bent on blowing football fans’ credit ratings to smithereens. Who knew, after deeply controversial tournaments in Russia and Qatar, it would actually be the 2026 World Cup in North America which would prove to be the most divisive in recent memory. Whether it’s the ongoing political tension, Donald...

England’s final two World Cup warm-up friendlies will likely take place in sweltering Florida heat after the Three Lions’ schedule was finalized on Thursday. Thomas Tuchel’s men will take on New Zealand on June 6 in Tampa Bay before facing Costa Rica four days later in Orlando. Both games will kick off at 4 p.m. […] The post England set for World Cup warm-up friendlies in Florida heat appeared first on Soccer America.

THOMAS TUCHEL is taking his England squad to the home of Mickey Mouse ahead of the World Cup. The Three Lions will travel to Orlando to take on Costa Rica in a friendly at the Inter&Co Stadium on June 10. This will be the squad’s final warm-up game before they travel to their Kansas base...

England will face New Zealand and Costa Rica before beginning their World Cup campaign against Croatia on 17 June

The New Zealand striker provides a welcome boost as Forest face crunch games in the league and in Europe Nobody has scored more goals in the Europa League this season than Igor Jesus and yet the overwhelming source of interest surrounding Nottingham Forest on arrival in northern Portugal on Wednesday was another striker. Only Erling Haaland, Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak outscored Chris Wood in the Premier League last season and the New Zealand frontman has been slowly building fitness and working towards a long-awaited first-team return. All eyes were on Wood at last weekend’s interactive open-training session, staged at the City Ground. He has been ticking off different targets since knee surgery in December and at the end of last month the 34-year-old made a welcome goalscoring comeback 11 minutes into his return to action for Forest under-21s against Newcastle, in modest surroundings at Loughborough University’s stadium in front of a crowd totalling a couple of hundred: students, Forest fans, a few from the north-east.

Iran wants their World Cup matches moved from the United States to Mexico

A first face-to-face meeting with FIFA president Gianni Infantino since the U.S. and Israel started a war against Iran on February 28 made genuine progress in soccer diplomacy at the end of a fraught month.

Fresh from defeating one FIFA World Cup-bound team (Iran) and drawing with another (Jordan) in the city of Antalya, Turkey, three-time African champions Nigeria are looking forward to a very exciting summer, as they are set for battles against Poland and FIFA World Cup-bound Portugal during the FIFA window for friendly matches in June. NFF’s […]