Real Madrid announced ISCO signed a five-year contract, keeping him at the club until June '22. The Spanish player "will appear before the media at the stadium on Friday." The 25-year-old will reportedly earn £5.34M ($7.15M) a season with a release clause of £623M ($834.5M) (London DAILY MAIL, 9/14). ... U.S. women's World Cup winners MEGAN RAPINOE and ALEX MORGAN joined JUAN MATA's campaign for players to "donate 1% of their salary to charity." Rapinoe said, "Myself and Alex felt it was important that women's football was represented from the outset" (BBC, 9/14). ... Australian swimmer JARROD POORT, who represented his country at the last two Olympics, "has been handed a one-year ban for failures to notify anti-doping authorities of his whereabouts" (REUTERS, 9/14). ... Australian Football League side Collingwood forward ALEX FASOLO said that mental health issues are "hugely widespread across the AFL," which he said is "ignorant to the challenges." Fasolo wrote about his battle with depression for the first time (AAP, 9/14). ... The new adviser to Israeli Premier League side Beitar Jerusalem, "the most nationalistic club in the country," quit 10 days after assuming the post for "refusing to apologise for declaring he would never sign a Muslim player." ELI COHEN "sparked a furore" when he said that he would not bring in a Muslim player because he was a "realistic person" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 9/14). ... Former Australian Test cricketer DEAN JONES said that he is safe after a suicide bomber "targeted the stadium in Afghanistan where he was commentating." At least three people are dead after the attack "just outside the gates" of the Kabul Int'l Cricket Stadium on Wednesday (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 9/14). ... Tottenham and England footballer DELE ALLI is "being courted by the two most powerful agents in football" as he prepares to appoint new advisers to manage the next phase of his career. Alli split with ROB SEGAL last month, having been with Impact Sports Management since he was 15 years old. JORGE MENDES and MINO RAIOLA "joined the race for Alli despite having previously shown little interest in recruiting English players" (LONDON TIMES, 9/14). ... American PATRICK MCENROE and Swede THOMAS ENQVIST were named vice captains of the Laver Cup men's tennis competition teams. The competition gets underway in Prague on Sept. 22. McEnroe will join Team World, under the direction of his older brother JOHN, while Enqvist will support the campaign of Team Europe, captained by BJÖRN BORG (Laver Cup).
