A spectator was killed after falling from the stands at the Nations League final between Portugal and Spain in Munich on Sunday, UEFA confirmed to AFP subsidiary SID.
The fan fell from the central tier during the first period of extra time into the press box in the lower tier. Paramedics and police rushed to the scene to assist the fan.
A UEFA spokesperson said there had been a “medical emergency” and confirmed that a fan had “sadly” died during the match.
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Representatives from both sides expressed their sympathies after the match, won 5-3 by Portugal on penalties after the game finished 2-2.
Spain coach Luis de la Fuente made a statement to express his condolences to the fan at the post-match press conference.
“I want to show my deepest condolences because a fan has died. It reminds us, of what is important in life.”
A representative of the Portuguese team made a similar statement of condolences, saying the death “casts a shadow on our victory today.”
Portugal coach Roberto Martinez echoed the sentiments, saying it was “extremely sad news.”
The supporter is estimated to have fallen around eight metres. How the fan fell or under what circumstances, is unclear.
Portugal beat long-time rivals Spain 5-3 on penalties to clinch their second UEFA Nations League title.
Portugal twice went behind in regulation time but twice fought back to level the scores.
Portugal’s forward #07 Cristiano Ronaldo kisses the trophy after winning the UEFA Nations League final football match between Portugal and Spain in Munich, southern Germany on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
Cristiano Ronaldo scored the second equaliser, before being subbed off with cramp in extra time.
This was also Portugal’s manager, Roberto Martinez’s first international trophy.
Former Portugal player Pepe (R) and Portugal’s Spanish head coach Roberto Martinez embrace after the UEFA Nations League final football match between Portugal and Spain in Munich, southern Germany on June 8, 2025. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
The brilliant Nuno Mendes levelled things up five minutes later.
Mikel Oyarzabal, Spain’s goalscorer in the Euro 2024 final and the 2023 Nations League final, put La Roja back in front just before the break.
Cristiano Ronaldo, quiet as he had been before scoring the winner against Germany in the semis, equalised with 61 minutes gone, adjusting quickly after a Mendes cross was deflected into the air, muscling past Marc Cucurella and volleying the dropping ball home.
Portugal’s forward #07 Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal’s Spanish head coach Roberto Martinez celebrate winning the UEFA Nations League final football match between Portugal and Spain in Munich, southern Germany on June 8, 2025. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
Ronaldo was subbed off before full-time with cramp. Even though Portugal had the better of extra time, the match went to penalties.
Both sides converted their first three spot kicks. Mendes buried Portugal’s fourth, before Morata stepped up and shot straight at Diogo Costa.
Neves nervelessly converted in front of the red and green of the Portugal fans. The victory was just Portugal’s second competitive win over Iberian rival Spain in their long history.
Portugal’s only other win over Spain in a competitive fixture was a 1-0 victory which booted the Spaniards out of Euro 2004, with a 19-year-old Ronaldo on the left wing.
Portugal became the first two-time winner of the Nations League, launched in 2018. It was Portugal’s third major title, along with Euro 2016.
Spain’s forward #19 Lamine Yamal walks past the trophy after the UEFA Nations League final football match between Portugal and Spain in Munich, southern Germany on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
– Portugal equalise twice –
While Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal’s fluid movement troubled the Portugese defence early in the match, La Roja’s opener was scrappy.
Yamal chipped from outside the box and the Portugal defence froze, botching a clearance which fell to Zubimendi, who leathered the ball into the net.
The goal was just rewards for Spain’s early dominance, but Portugal hit back almost immediately.
Spain’s forward #07 Alvaro Morata reacts after missing the penalty goal after the UEFA Nations League final football match between Portugal and Spain in Munich, southern Germany on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Alexandra BEIER / AFP)
Mendes, put through by Pedro Neto, drilled a low shot across the goal and in.
Just before halftime, Spain picked Portugal’s pocket in their own half before advancing. Pedri linked with Oyarzabal, who threaded the ball past Diogo Costa.
Oyarzabal’s goal meant he has scored in three international finals — against England at Euro 2024, which Spain won, and the 2023 and 2025 Nations Leagues, which Spain lost.
Ronaldo had done little other than encourage the heavily Portuguese crowd until that point but would pick his moment to strike.
With 61 minutes gone, Mendes shed a defender and whipped in a cross. The ball took a deflection and Ronaldo outmuscled Cucurella before lashing a volley home.
Spain team players react after loosing the UEFA Nations League final football match between Portugal and Spain in Munich, southern Germany on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Alexandra BEIER / AFP)
The goal was Ronaldo’s fourth in 10 matches against Spain. The previous three all coming in a wild 3-3 draw at the 2018 World Cup.
Limping in the dying stages of regulation time, Ronaldo fell to the turf with three minutes left and signalled to the bench that his night was over.
Spain may have been confident when the match went to extra time, having won on penalties in 2023, but Portugal were faultless, Neves stepping up and converting to send his teammates, including a hobbled Ronaldo, streaming onto the pitch.
Portugal’s players including Portugal’s midfielder #13 Renato Veiga celebrate after midfielder #18 Ruben Neves scored the winning penalty during the UEFA Nations League final football match between Portugal and Spain in Munich, southern Germany on June 8, 2025. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
In a French Open final for the ages on Sunday, Carlos Alcaraz saved three championship points by coming back from two sets down to defeat Jannik Sinner.
After five hours and 29 minutes, reigning champion Alcaraz rallied from the brink of defeat to defeat world number one Sinner 4-6, 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (10/2) to claim his fifth Grand Slam title.
On day 15 of the French Open tennis competition at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on June 8, 2025, Italy’s Jannik Sinner loses his men’s singles final match to Carlos Alcaraz from Spain. (Photo by AFP photographer JULIEN DE ROSA)
After ending Sinner’s 20-match winning streak at the majors, the 22-year-old Spaniard is now unbeaten in five Grand Slam finals.
In the longest Roland Garros final in history, Alcaraz stunned Sinner with his first comeback from two sets down. In a 4h 42min victory over Guillermo Vilas in Paris, Mats Wilander easily won the 1982 final.
After a remarkable duel between a new generation’s stars, Alcaraz becomes the third youngest man to win five Grand Slams, behind only Bjorn Borg and compatriot Rafael Nadal.
On day 15 of the French Open tennis competition, which takes place on Court Philippe-Chatrier at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on June 8, 2025, Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz is pictured celebrating his victory against Jannik Sinner from Italy in the men’s singles final match. (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP)
After winning the US Open and the following Australian Open titles last year, Sinner agonizedly short of a third successive Grand Slam title.
In their first Grand Slam final encounter, he lost to Alcaraz for the fifth time in a row, and it was their first championship encounter between two men who were both born in the year 2000.
Alcaraz leads 8-5 overall after defeating Sinner to win in Rome, where the Italian resurrected after a three-month doping ban.
On day 15 of the French Open tennis tournament, winner Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz (R) cheers Italy’s Jannik Sinner as they wrap up their men’s singles match at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on June 8, 2025. (Photo by AFP photographer JULIEN DE ROSA)
In the Nations League bronze-medal match between France and Germany in Stuttgart on Sunday, Kylian Mbappe scored and added an assist.
Mbappe worked his magic on a France squad that had undergone significant changes.
Germany led the opening half, but just before half-time, Mbappe carved a shot through a crowded penalty box to celebrate his 50th goal in French style.
Mbappe snatched a poor Germany pass on the half-way line and hurried forward as the hosts desperately searched for an equalizer before setting up Michael Olise.
Mbappe hadn’t scored in France’s open play for more than a year.
The France captain responded to criticism made against him after the game by saying, “Everyone always talks about me, since I joined the international team. They speak poorly when given the chance to do so.
“I’m the next, and they did it with all the great players in history in France.” But that’s okay with me. I make an effort to do my job.
Aurelien Tchouameni, a midfielder for France and Real Madrid, praised Mbappe and his international teammate, saying that “everyone in the team loves him.”
He plays for us very dearly, and it’s amazing when he plays as he did today.
Questions remain as to how much Germany’s performance under Julian Nagelsmann has truly improved, despite losing two straight matches for the first time since 2023.
Niclas Fuellkrug, the striker, lamented his team’s wastefulness, telling DAZN: “If we had taken our first chance and scored, it could have been three or four nil.”
Didier Deschamps, France’s coach, acknowledged that the Nations League match against old foes Germany “isn’t the most important game for us,” with a particular focus on the World Cup coming up next year.
Deschamps switched to eight starting spots after the semi-final defeat to Spain, with only Mbappe, Maignan, and Adrien Rabiot, a veteran midfielder, remaining.
Nagelsmann also made a significant change, including reintroducing Fuellkrug to the starting XI.
In the opening half, the Germans had numerous chances. Karim Adeyemi received a penalty, but VAR overturned it for diving. The post was hit by Florin Wirtz.
Just before half-time, Mbappe scored. The Real Madrid man tapped into a pass that flung over Joshua Kimmich’s head, took a touch, and fired a header home with his preferred right foot.
At half-time, Nagelsmann replaced Deniz Undav with   rookie striker Nick Woltemade. Undav had the ball in the net when the move appeared to have had a positive impact, but his effort was blocked for a foul in the build-up.
Germany had a dominant lead in possession and field position, but Mbappe’s lightning-fast forwards, led by France, made them vulnerable on the break.
On 58 minutes, Marcus Thuram hit the post. Then, Mbappe and substitute Olise, both of whom play for Bayern Munich in Germany, combined to make the score 2-0.
With six minutes left, the French captain squatted for the onrushing Olise to tap home after a poor Robin Koch clearance on the half-way line.
World heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has offered Donald Trump the chance to live in his house in a bid to help the United States president understand the war in Ukraine.
Trump had vowed to resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours” if he was elected president.
But there has been no end to Russia’s invasion since Trump returned to the White House in 2024.
Ukrainian boxer Usyk, who has been a tireless campaigner for peace in his homeland, believes Trump needs to have a clearer view of the dire situation if he is to find a solution to the crisis.
The 38-year-old has urged the president to join him at his house in Ukraine to see for himself the damage done by the war.
“I advise American President Donald Trump to come to Ukraine and live in my house for one week,” Usyk told BBC Sport on Sunday.
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“Only one week. I will give him my house. Live please in Ukraine and watch what is going on every night.
“Every night there are bombs and flights above my house. Bombs, rocket. Every night. It’s enough. ”
Trump clashed with Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky during a contentious summit meeting in the Oval Office in February.
Trump warned Zelensky to show more gratitude for America’s help in peace talks before telling him to leave the White House.
Asked if Trump could be convinced to change his opinion, Usyk said: “I don’t know. Maybe he’ll understand, maybe he won’t. ”
Usyk, who has won all 23 of his professional bouts, is currently in a training camp to prepare for a rematch with IBF champion Daniel Dubois on July 19 at Wembley.
However, the heavyweight champion from WBC, WBA, and WBO never considered fighting another fight.
I’m concerned about what takes place in my nation. Because of Ukrainian deaths, he said, it is terrible.
Not just military personnel, but also children, women, grandmothers, and grandfathers. ”
Italy coach Luciano Spalletti has said that Monday’s World Cup qualifier against Moldova would be his last.
Spalletti had come in for criticism after the Italian side lost 3-0 to Norway in their opening World Cup qualifying match last week.
“We spoke with the president of the Italian federation on Saturday and I was told that I would be relieved of my duties as coach of the national team”, Spalletti told a press conference on Sunday.
“I’m not happy about it. Given the relationship we have, I had absolutely no intention of leaving. Especially when things aren’t going well, I would have preferred to stay and do my job.
” But this is a dismissal and I have to accept it. I’ve always seen this role as a service to the country and I want to facilitate the future of the national team. I think it’s right to strive for the best. “
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Spalletti, 66, took over from Roberto Mancini as Italy coach in August 2023.
In his time as head of the Nazionale, the team won 11 times, drew six and lost six.
Spalletti’s dismissal came only hours after he had been stoutly defended by the same man who then fired him, Federation president Gabriele Gravina.
Gravina, who is not without his own critics,  , said earlier on Sunday Spalletti” was an extraordinary person “adding he” believed in the team and (Spalletti’s) project “which he declared was” amazing. “
” He is a noble soul. The attacks on him are not merited, “said Gravina.
Gravina had conceded the manner of the defeat to Norway was” unacceptable “though he intimated Spalletti would be responsible for leading the recovery.
” We have to face difficult times with our heads held high and we have to get back up immediately. “
Two names have popped up on a regular basis as to who would replace him, AS Roma’s experienced Claudio Ranieri, 73, most famous for guiding Leicester City to the unlikeliest of Premier League titles in 2016, is one of them.
The other is Stefano Pioli presently the coach of Saudi outfit Al-Nassr but prior to that the 59-year-old won the 2022 Serie A crown with AC Milan.
