This is Early Kick Off from the Men in Blazers media network and presented by our great friends of the pod STōK Cold Brew Coffee, all your global football stories straight from the back pages of Europe's newspapers in around 10 minutes.

On today’s episode: Two-time World Cup winner Becky Sauerbrunn retires from soccer after a 16-year career; Marcus Rashford admits that he is ready for a new challenge amidst Manchester United speculation; Mykhailo Mudryk has been provisionally suspended by the FA after failing a drugs test; Wolves is closing in on Vítor Pereira as their new manager; Vinicius Jr is awarded FIFA men’s player of the year and Aitani Bonmati picks up the women’s award; we preview Wednesday’s games, including the quarter finals of the Carabao Cup; and the new Wolves boss Vitor Pereira has been up to some antics in Brazil.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

This episode was made in the UK for Men In Blazers by…

Host: Sammy James

Producer: George Cooper

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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