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Soccer Notes: UCL final moving to Portugal

The Chelsea-Man City Champions League final "will be played in Porto, Portugal," on May 29, with an announcement expected to be made Thursday (N.Y. TIMES, 5/12). See more in today's Closing Bell.

LaLiga has reached a deal with Disney for ESPN to acquire its U.S. broadcast rights in an eight-year deal worth US$175M annually, according to a report in Spanish newspaper El Confidencial and cited by AS.com (AS, 5/12). See more in today's Daily.

ManU Women manager Casey Stone has resigned and is understood to have been offered a job at a club in the U.S. (London TELEGRAPH, 5/12).

Scottish Premiership side Celtic have "removed flags and banners which were put up by a group of fans" at Parkhead in "solidarity with Palestine amid ongoing violence in the Middle East," and described their behavior as "unacceptable" (SKY SPORTS, 5/12).

Portugal’s government on Wednesday "requested the opening of an investigation" after a mass gathering of thousands of fans celebrating Sporting being crowned Portuguese champions "got out of hand" (REUTERS, 5/12).

Croatia is set to "issue an international arrest warrant" for former Dinamo Zagreb coach Zoran Mamic who "failed to report this week to serve his jail sentence for fraud" (REUTERS, 5/11).

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