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Portugal and Czechia open EURO 2024 in Leipzig

American football is returning to Stuttgart, with the European League of Football and VfB joining forces to host the Championship Game 2025 at the MHP Arena.

Nour Youssef is in the squad for the Palestinian national team for the first time. The attacker is preparing for the West Asian Championship starting next Monday. The tournament will take place from 19 to 29 February 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In addition to hosts Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, Guam and Nepal are also taking part in the tournament by invitation. In the group stage, Youssef and her team will face Iraq, Syria and Nepal. The two best teams in each group stage will qualify for the semi-finals.

The German Cup, otherwise known as the DFB-Pokal, is one of the most prestigious competitions in German soccer. This year, powerhouses Bayer Leverkusen will take on 1. FC Kaiserslautern for cup glory – and both teams have a lot to play for. Leverkusen’s dream season hit a snag after falling to Atalanta in the Europa League final, marking an end to its 51-game unbeaten streak. Still, the club has put together a historic year in the Bundesliga.

Starring at both center-back and right-back, Pavard was able to show the world that he is fully capable of playing as a strong, starting center-back for a Champions League-caliber team.

Red Bulls summer schedule | Preview of the 2024/25 season

Similarly to 1. FC Union Berlin’s professionalised women’s team, Hamburger SV have also been greatly ambitious in recent years. HSV, who played in the Bundesliga without interruption from 2003 to 2012, harbour plans to return to the top flight, especially having dropped into the fourth-tier Verbandsliga between 2016 and 2019. In the 2021/22 season, the Hanseatic team secured the Regionalliga Nord championship title for the first time, but were beaten by Turbine Potsdam II (1-0, 0-4) over two legs in the play-off for promotion. However, HSV won the league again last season with 25 wins from 26 games leading them to this time face Viktoria Berlin. HSV weren’t to be thwarted this time and won 3-0 and then 3-1 to secure promotion to the 2. Bundesliga.

If there is anyone who knows all about the ups and downs of life in the Bundesliga with VfL Wolfsburg, then it is Ashkan Dejagah. The 38-year-old, who has both German and Iranian roots, played for the Green-and Whites in Germany’s top flight, as well as in the DFB Cup, the Champions League, the UEFA Cup, the Europa League and the relegation play-offs – and even in the fourth-tier Regionalliga Nord.

The summer transfer window won’t reopen in Europe for another month, but there are plenty of...