Tuchel's first match will come as soon as April 1 when Bayern will meet league leaders Borussia Dortmund, the club that Tuchel led from 2015-2017 before he left for PSG.

Brazil face World Cup semi-finalists Morocco in a friendly in Tangier on Saturday with Under-20 coach Ramon Menezes acting as caretaker while the Brazilian FA search for a new manager.

Eleta Kingsley made his long-awaited debut as Bangladesh registered their first-ever victory against an African side when the men in red and green beat Seychelles 1-0 in a FIFA friendly at the Sylhet District Stadium on Saturday.

Eleta Kingsley made his long-awaited debut for Bangladesh as the Nigerian-born naturalised footballer kicked off the second-half's proceedings in their FIFA friendly match against Seychelles at the Sylhet District Stadium on Saturday.

In 2014, the football-crazy people of Sylhet broke through the main gate and thronged the Sylhet District Stadium touchline, forcing the organisers to start the match between Bangladesh U-23 and Nepal U-23 an hour later than the scheduled time.

England defender Harry Maguire said not winning next year's European Championship would be a failure for the team, after their progress in recent major tournaments.

Argentina beat Panama 2-0 in a friendly on Thursday with goals from Thiago Almada and Lionel Messi amid a festive atmosphere in their first game in front of their home fans after winning the World Cup in December.

Being an Asian nation, Bangladesh rarely get the opportunity to play international football matches against nations from outside the continent. Bangladesh are set to play against the East African nation Seychelles at the Sylhet District Stadium today which will only be their fifth encounter against a team from Africa. 

Mbappe has succeeded long-standing France skipper Hugo Lloris and the new era got off to a flying start as the Paris Saint-Germain superstar set up the pink-haired Antoine Griezmann to score inside two minutes.

The win at the Friends Arena gave new Belgium coach Domenico Tedesco the perfect start as his side seek to bounce back form a disappointing group-stage exit at the Qatar World Cup but Janne Andersson's Sweden posed little threat.

Nagelsmann led Bayern to the quarterfinals of the Champions League but Bayern have not enjoyed their normal dominance of the Bundesliga so far this season and so have replaced Nagelsmann with 49-year-old Tuchel, who won the Champions League with Chelsea in 2021.

The way fitness coach Ivan Razlog and physio Kandasmy Senthil Kumar Yoseshwar kept an eye on journalists, especially cameramen and photographers to ensure no footage of the training session was being captured, it seemed as if Bangladesh were set to play a crucial international match at the Sylhet District Stadium today.

While takeovers from wealthy financers have been very much in vogue across top-tier European leagues, one that continues to do its best to resist that trend is the Bundesliga in Germany.

While the fans of Italian football continue to struggle to convince their peers from the English Premier League and LaLiga about the relevance of Serie A in European footballing hierarchy, it is with a renewed optimism that they can now boast about Napoli – the new entertainers of European football.

Bangladesh beat India 1-0 in the SAFF U-17 Women’s Championship, thanks to an own goal from India, at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium yesterday.

New France skipper Kylian Mbappe said he would not change after being given the armband by coach Didier Deschamps for the Euro 2024 qualifiers as he promised to be "a different captain" to long-term predecessor Hugo Lloris.

It has more or less been clear that Seychelles national football squad are full of amateur booters who play at the weekend after managing their individual jobs but the fact that they earn nothing through the sport is perhaps a quite surprising to the football-loving people of Bangladesh, who are used to seeing the country's national booters being paid millions of takas per season.

Germany will unusually feature two forwards in their friendly international against Peru on Saturday, coach Hansi Flick said on Friday as he looks to build a battle-worthy team for next year's Euro 2024.

Bayern Munich were poised Friday to announce that they have sacked coach Julian Nagelsmann, replacing him with former Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel just days before crucial Champions League and Bundesliga games next month.

Newly established as England's record goalscorer, Harry Kane's place in the history books was earned as much by his perseverance as his lethal finishing.