Global diary
A comprehensive record of recent events around the world
Thursday July 12
ITALY: American hedge fund Elliott Management takes control of Milan after buyer Yonghong Li fails to make a € 32m loan payment.
POLAND: Jerzy Brzeczek leaves Wisla Plock and replaces Adam Nawalka as national coach.
PORTUGAL: Sporting, who want £48m in compensation, report Wolves and Rui Patricio to FIFA after the goalkeeper joined the Premier League side in June. He is one of several players to have terminated their contracts with the club after an attack by fans.
SPAIN: Barcelona sign Sevilla’s 23-year-old centre-back Clement Lenglet for € 35.9m.
Friday July 13
ENGLAND: Chelsea sack Antonio Conte after two years as manager. QATAR: Tunisia’s World Cup coach Nabil Maaloul quits to take charge of Qatari’s Al Duhail.
TANZANIA: Azam retain the CECAFA Club Cup, beating Simba 2-1 in the Final.
Saturday July 14
ENGLAND: Maurizio Sarri, who led Napoli to two second-place finishes in three seasons, is named Chelsea manager. He is joined by midfielder Jorginho, who also arrives from the Italian club for a reported £57m.
USA: Wayne Rooney comes off the bench for his debut as DC United beat Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 in the first MLS game at their new Audi Field Stadium.
WORLD CUP: Belgium take third place by beating England 2-0 in the play-off game.
Sunday July 15
ARGENTINA: National coach Jorge Sampaoli “mutually agrees” to terminate his contract. DENMARK: Vendsyssel celebrate their first-ever game in the Danish Superliga by beating OB 3-2.
WORLD CUP: France beat Croatia 4-2 in the Final and are crowned world champions for a second time.
Monday July 16
EURO U19s: Runners-up in 2017, Portugal kick off this year’s finals in Finland with a 3-1 over Norway.
Tuesday July 17
AUSTRALIA: Central Coast Mariners confirm they are in talks with 31-year-old eight-time Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt about a sixweek trial. ICELAND: Heimir Hallgrimsson steps down after seven years as coach of the national side. NIGERIA: The Nigeria Professional Football League, which is due to resume tomorrow after a World Cup break, is postponed indefinitely due to a leadership battle within the Nigerian Football Federation.
PANAMA: Hernan Dario Gomez resigns as national coach.
SOUTH AFRICA: Former holders Mamelodi Sundowns suffer a shock 1-0 defeat at Port of Togo and are still yet to win a CAF Champions League game in West Africa.
WALES: Trailing 5-0 from the first leg in Macedonia, The New Saints almost complete an extraordinary comeback in the Champions League, beating Shkendija 4-0 in the return.
Wednesday July 18
ENGLAND: Former Chelsea and Italy striker Gianfranco Zola returns to the club as assistant to new manager Maurizio Sarri.
Thursday July 19
BULGARIA: Three players from each side are sent off as CSKA Sofia win a Europa League penalty shoot-out against Riga in Latvia.
ENGLAND: Liverpool make Alisson the world’s most expensive keeper as they sign the 25-year-old from Roma for £67m. NORWAY: Rosenborg sack coach Kare Ingebrigtsen the day after they beat Iceland’s Valur 3-2 on
aggregate in the Champions League with an injury-time penalty.
Friday July 20
GERMANY: Hanover will appeal a ruling denying them exemption from the 50+1 ruling in order to allow club president Martin Kind to take control.
ITALY: Milan will take part in the Europa League after winning an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport following a ban by UEFA over Financial Fairplay.
SENEGAL: Referee Malang Diedhiou, who was involved in four matches at the World Cup in Russia, announces his retirement.
Saturday July 21
USA: Josef Martinez sets a new MLS record with the sixth hat-trick of his career as Atlanta United beat DC United 3-1.
Sunday July 22
GERMANY: Mesut Ozil announces his international retirement.
JAPAN: Andres Iniesta’s J.League debut ends in defeat as Vissel Kobe lose 3-0 to Shonan Bellmare. His former Spain team-mate Fernando Torres also makes a losing start as Sagan Tosu are beaten 1-0 by Vegalta Sendai.
Monday July 23
CHINA: Assistant coach Hao Haitao replaces former Portugal boss Paulo Bento on an interim basis at Chongqing Lifan.
ENGLAND: Former Leeds United and England defender Paul Madeley dies, aged 73.
ETHIOPIA: Having avoided games against each other since the start of a border war in 1998, Ethiopia and Eritrea agree to a friendly in August.
ITALY: Parma striker Emanuele Calaio is banned for two years for match-fixing and his club deducted five points ahead of the upcoming Serie A season.
SCOTLAND: Hearts are docked two points in their Scottish League Cup group for fielding an ineligible player, Andrew Irving, in a 2-1 victory over Cove Rangers.
VENEZUELA: Apertura winners Zamora begin their Clausura campaign with a 3-1 win at home to Deportivo La Guaira.
Tuesday July 24
ENGLAND: Everton buy Brazilian winger Richarlison from Watford in a potential £50m deal that would make him the club’s record signing.
GERMANY: Bayer Leverkusen winger Karim Bellarabi is taken
to hospital after collapsing during a friendly against Wuppertal.
NIGERIA: After months of political in-fighting, and with the threat of a FIFA ban hanging over the country, Nigeria restores Amaju Pinnick as its federation president.
SPAIN: Barcelona agree to sign Bordeaux winger Malcom for € 41m – a day after Roma announced a deal subject to a medical and personal terms.
Wednesday July 25
BRAZIL: Tite agrees a four-year contract renewal to lead Brazil’s national team. COLOMBIA: Deportes Tolima, who beat Atletico Nacional in the Apertura play-off Final, win 2-1 away to the same team in their opening Clausura fixture.
ENGLAND: Brighton sign Iran international winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh from AZ for a reported club record fee of £17m.
ITALY: Former Milan player and coach Leonardo, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 1994, is appointed as the club’s new sporting director.
PHILIPPINES: Ceres Negros beat Global Cebu 6-1 and win the league with three games to spare.
USA: Bradley Wright-Phillips becomes the fastest player to score
100 MLS goals as New York Red Bulls win 1-0 away to DC United on his 159th appearance.
Thursday July 26
JAPAN: Hajime Moriyasu is named national coach. UNDER-20 WORLD CUP: England will not defend their title in Poland next year after Norway win 3-0 in a Euro Under-19 play-off.
USA: Alphonso Davies joins Bayern Munich from Vancouver Whitecaps for an MLS record fee of $13m.
Friday July 27
BRAZIL: Palmeiras appoint former national boss Luiz Felipe Scolari as their coach for a third time.
RUSSIA: Stanislav Cherchesov signs a contract that could see him coach the national team until 2022.
Saturday July 28
MEXICO: Juan Carlos Osorio, who led the national side to the last 16 of the World Cup, rejects an