Football Archives: 11/2016

Nacho Monreal netted his first international goal as Spain beat Macedonia 4-0 and he was clearly delighted with the whole thing.

With the international break in full swing, we take a look at the first-team players (including those out on-loan) who were called up to their respective countries in recent days.

Nacho Monreal scored his first ever goal for Spain on Saturday as they beat Macedonia 4-0.

Chris Coleman is set to start Aaron Ramsey for Wales against Serbia on Saturday.

David Ospina played a full match for Colombia against Chile as Manchester City’s goalkeeper managed to pick up a dead leg.

Granit Xhaka has been pictured with quite literally a massive weight on his shoulders.

Alergia national team coach, Georges Leekens, believes the secret to stopping Nigeria scoring during their clash is to stop Alex Iwobi and Manchester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho.

Calum Chambers played a full 90 minutes for England’s u21s against Italy on Thursday night.

Alex Iwobi is looking forward to wearing Nigeria’s new kit against Algeria at the weekend.

Jack Wilshere and Theo Walcott have obviously buddied up while away training with the England team.

The UEFA Euro 2017 draw was made yesterday in Rotterdam and there will be a British derby between England and Scotland when they meet in their opening group D match.

We’re now into the third international break of a season that isn’t even three months old, so who will be going where and for what?

With the FA WSL season ending on Sunday, players that are out of of contracts are now free agents and available to move. Is Rosella Ayane one of them?

The Guardian recently published a story about a Non-League game referee stopping a match after 13 minutes and abandoning it because a fan was moaning and questioning his decisions too much.

Jack Wilshere has been called into the England squad after completing 90 minutes for Bournemouth a few times.

Olivier Giroud, Shkodran Mustafi and Nacho Monreal have all received call-ups ahead of the international break next week.

Reports emerged on Thursday that Mesut Ozil will not be called up for the next international break as Joachim Low endeavours to show that he is the anti-Chris Coleman.

Ten women have been shortlisted as candidates for the Best FIFA Women’s Player 2016 by experts from the Committee for Women’s Football and the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

When Arsenal lined up before the game against Ludogorets on Tuesday night, people couldn’t understand why they were wearing their monstrous third kit instead of red and white.

FIFA have released the ten-man shortlist for the best coach of 2016 in the men’s game, with no space for Arsene Wenger this year, despite him generally making an appearance regardless of what else is going on.