The Galaxy striker took his tally to 499 goals as his side drew 1-1 against city rivals Los Angeles FC on Friday.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic moved a step closer to his 500th career goal in LA Galaxy’s derby draw, while Atlanta United star Josef Martinez made history in MLS.

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Former Sweden captain Ibrahimovic took his tally to 499 as the Galaxy drew 1-1 against city rivals Los Angeles FC on Friday.

In a career including spells with Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan, Barcelona, Inter and Juventus, Ibrahimovic opened the scoring after 15 minutes at Stubhub Center.

The 36-year-old appeared to poke the ball over the line but the referee did not award the goal, until a video review overturned the decision.

However, the Galaxy were unable to hold on to the lead as their winless run extended to five games following Carlos Vela’s equalizer from the spot six minutes into the second half.

The result left the Galaxy fifth in the Western Conference and five points adrift of second-placed LAFC.

Martinez, meanwhile, broke the league’s regular-season scoring record with his 28th goal of the campaign.

The Venezuela international netted the match-winning strike in Atlanta’s 2-1 victory over Orlando City.

Martinez surpassed the achievements of Bradley Wright-Phillips (2014), Chris Wondolowski (2012) and Roy Lassiter (1996) with his 74th-minute strike in Orlando.

Orlando’s Scott Sutter had cancelled out Leandro Gonzalez Pirez’s opener before half-time.

The win sent Eastern Conference and Supporters’ Shield leaders Atlanta five points clear atop the standings amid their seven-match unbeaten streak with eight regular-season games remaining.

Champions Real Madrid will be confident of topping the group but it’s a different story for Premier League sides Liverpool and Manchester United

This is going to be a far from straightforward season for Real Madrid and new coach Julen Lopetegui. The club as a whole are still reeling from the summer departures of Zinedine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The squad has not been strengthened to such an extent that you would feel confident of predicting that Real are about to land a fourth consecutive European title. But they have avoided a group-of-death situation in the Champions League draw and should have a straightforward path to the knockouts.

Last season they did not get going until the last 16 and struggled in a group containing Tottenham and Borussia Dortmund. There is no team to match that kind of quality here, with a patchy Roma set to provide the sternest test.

Russian runners-up CSKA Moscow are not a Champions League-standard team and Viktoria Plzen – although experienced at the group-stage level – will be easily swatted aside.

It should be a gentle introduction to the pressure of coaching Real in Europe’s elite cup competition for Lopetegui, and a chance for Gareth Bale and Mariano Diaz to set about replacing the goals of Cristiano.

Team Ronaldo was rightly miffed about their player missing out on the UEFA Best Player Award but the man himself will be delighted at the prospect of adding to his 120 Champions League goals in the group stage for his new club Juventus.

A decision was made late in the day not to attend the gala at the Grimaldi Forum, according to Juve CEO Beppe Marotta, and the suspicion is that Ronaldo backed out because he lost his best player award to ex-team mate Luka Modric.

Agent Jorge Mendes seemed to confirm as much when declaring that the choice was “ridiculous”, considering Ronaldo’s 17 Champions League goals last season.

Nothing motivates Ronaldo like individual success, however, and he will be very keen to correct that perceived injustice this season.

He was signed by the Scudetto holders very much with the Champions League in mind and he will have plenty of opportunities to add to his goal-scoring total.

Valencia have been fruitful opposition for Ronaldo in La Liga and will hold no fear for him. Young Boys will be playing in their first-ever Champions League group stage and are the kind of fodder Ronaldo excels against.

Then come Manchester United – where he made his name and won the competition for the first time – and Jose Mourinho – his former manager at Real.

It’s well-known that the two endured uneasy relations during Mourinho’s final days at the Bernabeu and Ronaldo will be relishing the chance to show the ‘Special One’ he’s still got it.

A return to Old Trafford will see him received warmly where the fans remember his Ballon d’Or-winning form and might even wish their club had gone back in for him this summer.

Manchester City as reigning Premier League champions and, two years into the Pep Guardiola era, should now be thinking about European glory.

Their squad is strong enough – and has enough experience – to go all the way. No team in the Champions League can match their strength in depth, the injury to Kevin De Bruyne notwithstanding.

Considering the calibre of team they could have been drawn alongside, Guardiola’s men have done as well as could be hoped for.

Shakhtar Donetsk are well known, having played against City in this competition last season. They did well to hold onto highly-regarded coach Paulo Fonseca in summer but were weakened by the loss of Fred to Manchester United.

Lyon might well be possessed of some of the best young talent French football has to offer in Lucas Tousart, Houssem Aouar and Tanguy Ndombele but are prone to inconsistency.

Hoffenheim finished third in a pretty ordinary Bundesliga last season and should be no match for City’s firepower.

Guardiola should be targeting maximum points, or very close to that total.

The sight of Sergio Ramos patronisingly touching Mohamed Salah on his shoulder shortly after claiming UEFA’s Best Defender award will have stuck in the craw of Liverpool supporters and they won’t be feeling too hot having seen the draw either. 

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was pulling no punches when summing up his side’s upcoming Champions League campaign.

“To be 100 per cent honest, it was not that I had a group I wished for,” he said. “I expected a difficult group, we have a difficult group and that’s what the Champions League is all about.”

While the Reds are coming into the competition this season as beaten finalists, they will nonetheless consider themselves only second favourites for the group behind Paris St-Germain.

Napoli, with their new coach Carlo Ancelotti, are sharks in the water and their San Paolo stadium has long been regarded as a difficult European venue.

Red Star Belgrade will make up the numbers but no slip-ups can be tolerated against them either.

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The Reds were quite fortunate in their Champions League draw last season and carried on serenely to the knockouts. But they have had no such luck this time around.

PSG with Neymar and Mbappe will be expecting to win the whole thing outright, while three-time winner Ancelotti is Mr. Champions League.

The manner in which Jose Mourinho set up Manchester United to face Sevilla over two legs last season tells you plenty about where he sees his team.

His rant in the aftermath – about United’s recent Champions League “heritage” – demonstrated that he doesn’t believe he can compete for the major prizes with these players.

Valencia did well to end up fourth in a competitive La Liga last season and although they have started the season indifferently, Los Che will be a tough prospect under Marcelino once all their new signings settle in.

How Mourinho approaches the two Valencia games will be vital as it will show whether or not he wants to play on the front foot or else sit back and hope for chances on the break. If United don’t win two games against the Spaniards, then they don’t have a prayer of topping the group.

That’s because there is the small matter of Juventus and Cristiano Ronado. The Italians are aggrieved about their exit to Real Madrid last year and now fortified by their signing of Ronaldo will be going all out for the title.

They are favourites in this group, with United and Valencia scrapping for second. Young Boys are a long way back.

Back on top in the Netherlands and having come through a tough qualification campaign, PSV nonetheless got no mercy in the group stage draw.

Hirving Lozano and Co. will have to do it the hard way if they are to make it to the knockouts. They have been drawn alongside one of the favourites in Barcelona – and Lionel Messi – and if that wasn’t enough they were given a strong Tottenham team from Pot 2.

Inter were the team to avoid from Pot 4, meanwhile, and they ended up with the Dutch side also.

All in all, PSV could not have faced any worse an outcome and will be hoping for a Europa League place at best.

With the play-off fixtures of the Europa League done, Goal rounds up all you need to know about the upcoming group stage draw

This year’s Europa League  group stage is set to begin soon, with the playoffs coming to a conclusion. 

Defending champions Atletico Madrid will not be participating in the group stage, as they secured qualification for the Champions League. 

But this year’s edition of the Europa League will see the involvement of major Premier League clubs Arsenal and Chelsea.

Goal brings you everything you need to know about the Europa League group stage draw, including when and where it takes place, how to watch it live for free and more.

This year’s Europa League group stage draw will determine the 48 teams who will compete in the group stage, drawn into 12 separate groups with the top two from each group making up the 32 teams that will make up the knockout phases of the tournament.

Those who will be involved in the draw will be made up of the 17 teams who automatically qualified for this stage, the 21 teams advancing from the play-off round, the six teams defeated from the Champions League play-off round and the four teams defeated in the Champions League third qualifying round league path.

Confirmed clubs such as Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayer Leverkusen, Villarreal, Anderlecht, Lazio, Sporting CP, Marseille, and AC Milan will be involved in the draw. You can view a complete guide to the Europa League here .

This year’s Europa League group stage draw will take place on August 31 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, one day after the draw for the Champions League.

Goal , as official digital broadcaster in SouthEast Asia, will be live streaming the UEFA Europa League group stage draw game to its users. The event is being streamed free of charge to Goal users from 7pm Singapore Time on August 31st (Friday) in the following countries: 

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The Catalan is working hard to ward off complacency after his side claimed the Premier League title in record-breaking fashion last season

Pep Guardiola has introduced a new set of fines in a bid to keep his Manchester City players on their toes, Goal understands.

Guardiola has been ramming home the dangers of complacency during team meetings since the start of the season.

While coach at Barcelona and Bayern Munich he suffered some shock results in the first weeks of his respective clubs’ title defences, including a 2-0 Camp Nou defeat to Hercules in 2010 and two draws from four games in 2011. At Bayern in 2014 his champions failed to win two of their first four matches.

City have won three and drawn one of their first four games of the campaign and Guardiola, who has ruled out another 100-point season, has charged his side with being more consistent.

He also wants them to be more resilient in the face of set-backs in big matches, such as the high-profile defeats to Liverpool and Manchester United in April.

As part of his drive to focus minds, Guardiola has taken steps to improve behaviour around the training ground.

The Catalan has banned the use of mobile phones in analysis sessions and team meetings at the club’s City Football Academy, although players are allowed to use their phones inside the dressing room. 

Left-back Benjamin Mendy has vowed not to use his phone in the dressing room, however, after Guardiola warned him publicly to spend less time on social media and focus more on his football.

Mendy was also fined for turning up late to training ahead of the start of the season, another example of the sanctions handed out to the City squad.

Previous fines at City had been charged as a percentage of a player’s salary, but are now pre-arranged, flat fees and do not differ depending on a player’s earnings or stature in the squad.

Guardiola’s desire to keep his squad in line also played a role in Leroy Sane being dropped from the City side to face Newcastle on Saturday.

Sources have told Goal that the Germany winger’s focus has been questioned by Guardiola and his coaching staff in recent weeks, although the City boss had publicly stated that he has no problems in that area.

Guardiola is no stranger to handing out sanctions, having started in his first season as a coach back in 2008.

Then, his Barca B players were fined for being late, for being sent off, for staying out past 11pm and when Guardiola deemed they were not working hard enough in training.

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Subpoenas for riot photos, tapes once again thrown out

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MICHIGAN–A state trial judge in East Lansing declined in late May to throw out the second round of subpoenas issued against journalists for unpublished photographs of March riots at Michigan State University. The first group of subpoenas were dismissed by the state Supreme Court in late April.

Trial judge David Jordon once again ordered 11 news organizations to provide law enforcement officials with unpublished photographs and videotape taken of rioting that erupted on the Michigan State campus after the school’s loss to Duke University in the NCAA basketball tournament.

In early April, Jordon ordered the same news organizations to respond to similar subpoenas issued by Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings and held that the Michigan shield law, which provides an absolute privilege against the disclosure of the identities of confidential sources, was not applicable because no confidential informants are involved when photographs are taken at a public gathering.

In late April, however, the state Supreme Court in Lansing ruled that the original subpoenas were improperly issued as discovery subpoenas, which normally are enforceable only against parties to the action at hand.

Dunnings reissued the subpoenas in early May as investigative subpoenas. Jordon’s most recent order for the news media to turn over unpublished photographs and videotape of the riots allows for a three- week stay of enforcement of the subpoenas, until a state appellate court can hear arguments on the matter in June.

The news organizations affected — the Detroit Free Press, the Lansing State Journal, Michigan State’s The State News, and television news outlets in Detroit, Flint, Lansing, Kalamazoo, and Grand Rapids – – argue that the investigative subpoenas are improper because a 1995 state law allows this type of subpoena to be issued against the news media only when the news media are the subject of the investigation. (In re Subpoenas to News Media Petitioners; State Journal’s Counsel: Charles Barbieri, Lansing; Free Press Counsel: Herschel Fink, Detroit)

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Publishing company sues over newsroom search

A legal publisher sued Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, claiming violations of a federal search law and interference with publishing caused by a newsroom search earlier this year.

The Metropolitan News Company, publisher of the Metropolitan News-Enterprise, a legal newspaper in Los Angeles, and company owner Roger M. Grace sued Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley Dec. 16 over a May 2 search of the company’s downtown offices.

The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, stems from county investigators’ quest for documents they said related to a probe of possible government corruption in South Gate, Calif.

On May 2, investigators for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office served a search warrant on the company. The warrant called for seizure of records showing the identity of a customer that had placed legal advertisements with the publication, according to the complaint.

The warrant authorized the search of company offices, including areas where news materials were stored. During the search, 11 armed investigators closed the company’s offices for three hours and ordered employees — including reporters — out of the building, according to the complaint.

About two weeks earlier, the company had offered to turn over the materials if the investigators provided the name of the firm that placed the advertisement, said Grace, who also is editor and publisher of the newspaper.

If the newspaper had been subpoenaed for the business-related materials, Grace said he would have complied.

“In other words, there was really no reason for the search,” Grace said.

The documents sought by the district attorney were turned over by Metropolitan News-Enterprise Co-Publisher Jo-Ann W. Grace after telephone conversations with district attorney’s office and once the investigators provided the name of the firm that placed the ad.

In the complaint, Grace and the company allege that the search of the newspaper office violated the Privacy Protection Act, which bars execution of search warrants on news organizations unless there is probable cause to believe that the person who has the materials in question committed a crime, or unless seizure is necessary to prevent death or injury.

According to the complaint, the search limited the content of the next day’s Metropolitan News-Enterprise and delayed completion of that day’s edition of the Los Angeles Bulletin, an afternoon daily published by the company.

In a May 2 statement Cooley defended the search: “This office is very sensitive to and respectful of First Amendment issues as it relates to news rooms. There was nothing about this search that would indicate otherwise.”

The complaint seeks a declaration that the search violated the Privacy Protection Act and seeks damages for trespass, interference with business operations, and violation of civil rights.

The company also alleges that Cooley libeled Grace and the company in a May 2 news release and in a letter to the Los Angeles Times, which accused Metropolitan News of refusing to comply with the warrant.

“Your suggestion that the newspaper shield law might extend to cover business invoices for legal notices will have to be worked out in the courts,” the letter also stated in reply to an earlier editorial.

And working it out in court is just what Grace hopes to do with this lawsuit.

“The important thing is to judicially establish is that the DA didn’t have the right to do what he did,” Grace said. “If [Cooley] won’t proclaim that the search was a mistake, then we feel we need to get a judge to declare that.”

(Metropolitan News Company v. Cooley; Media counsel: Lisa Grace-Kellogg and Roger M. Grace, Los Angeles) — JL

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Investigators with search warrant close newsroom for three hours (5/3/2002)

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Journalist ordered to jail for protecting sources

Refusing to reveal the identity of sources could land the editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper in jail for five days.

An editor and publisher of a California weekly newspaper was ordered by a state trial court last week to spend five days in jail for contempt of court after refusing to reveal his sources. Tehoma County Superior Court Judge Noel Watkins delayed the effectiveness of the sentence until Jan. 21, when Tim Crews, editor and publisher of the Sacramento Valley Mirror in Artios, has been ordered to return to court for questioning.

The contempt order arose when Crews refused to name two sources for a story relating to a theft charge against California Highway Patrol officer Dewey Anderson. Anderson has pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges relating to an allegedly stolen firearm, according to the Associated Press.

Crews reported in the Valley Mirror that he was informed by officers that Anderson had stolen a handgun and that he was read portions of a written report concerning Anderson. The trial court found that the need of Anderson’s defense attorneys to know the identity of Crew’s sources outweighs Crew’s protection under California’s shield law.

(California v. Anderson)

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Reporters’ phone records protected in Islamic charities investigation

A reporter’s privilege based on the First Amendment and common law protects two journalists’ telephone records from grand jury subpoena, a federal district judge held.

Feb. 25, 2005 — U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet of Manhattan ruled yesterday that the telephone records of two New York Times reporters are protected from disclosure to federal prosecutors trying to identify a government leak in the investigation of Islamic charities suspected of aiding terrorists.

Sweet held that the telephone records are protected by a qualified privilege under the First Amendment and under common law, and that prosecutors had failed to overcome the privilege.

“To deny the relief sought by The Times under these circumstances, i.e., without any showing on the part of the government that the sought records are necessary, relevant, material and unavailable from other sources, has the potential to significantly affect the reporting of news based upon information provided by confidential sources,” Sweet wrote.

The sought telephone records spanned weeks in late 2001 and could have identified numerous confidential and non-confidential sources.

Last summer, Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is also the special prosecutor in the unrelated investigation into who leaked the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame to reporters, threatened to subpoena the telephone records of Times reporters Philip Shenon and Judith Miller in a Chicago grand jury investigation. Fitzgerald believes that government agents leaked plans to raid two Islamic charities suspected of funding terrorists to the Times, and that Shenon and Miller tipped the charities to the raids when they called for comment. Shenon and Miller deny alerting the charities to the raids.

It is unclear if subpoenas were actually issued, because both Fitzgerald and the Times‘ telephone company declined to comment, citing grand jury secrecy rules.

In September, the Times filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York against then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to block the subpoenas.

Fitzgerald asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing that any subpoenas were only “hypothetical” because his office and the telephone company had declined to confirm them, and that the case would interfere with the grand jury investigation in the federal court in Chicago. Sweet dismissed both arguments.

Sweet ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1972 decision in Branzburg v. Hayes and subsequent decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York (2nd Cir.) recognize a qualified reporter’s privilege under the First Amendment. Citing disagreement among the federal circuits, Sweet declined to follow the recent ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., in the Plame investigation that no such privilege exists in grand jury proceedings.

Sweet also ruled that a common law privilege exists in the federal courts under the Federal Rules of Evidence and Supreme Court precedent because the privilege has been recognized by 48 states and the District of Columbia. The Washington appellate court was split on the common law privilege issue.

In his 121-page ruling, Sweet also relied on the sworn statements of reporters, a historian and a government attorney on the public benefits of confidential sources to reporting.

The Times reported that its attorney, Floyd Abrams, said that the opinion will help in framing the reporter’s privilege issue for possible Supreme Court review. Fitzgerald is considering whether to appeal, according to a statement reported by Reuters.

(The New York Times Company v. Gonzales, Media Counsel: Floyd Abrams, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, LLP, New York) — GP

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Federal appeals court upholds reporter subpoenas (02/15/2005)
Reporters’ phone records subpoenaed (09/10/2004)

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Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy urged the U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsin Washington on Thursdaynot to throw out her case seeking a reporter’s privilege to keep her sources confidential.

Locy became embroiled in the legal battle after reporting about Steven Hatfill, the former Army scientist who was investigated in the 2001 anthrax attacks but whose name has sincebeen cleared.When Locy refused to give up her confidential sources in Hatfill’s ensuing Privacy Act suit againstthe government, the U.S. District Court in D.C. held her in contempt. She appealed that decision to the Court of Appeals.

Though Hatfill settled his underlying case with the government this summer for $5.8 million, Locy’s appealof the contempt order has still been pending.

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Last week, Hatfill filed a motion to dismiss Locy’s appeal, arguing that there’s no need to decide her case now because he has settled his case and Locy’s sources are no longersought.Locy responded Thursday, asking the judges to keep her case on the docket.

In the court papers, Locy’s attorneys argued thateven withHatfill’s settlement, Locy’s dispute over whether she has a privilege to keep her sources confidential still needs to be decided.

Hatfill told the court in his filing last week that once the case was dismissed he would seek attorney’s fees from Locy. That Hatfill will continue to pursue Locy in litigation over fees is onereason Locy’s case is still alive and should be decided, her attorneys argued.

“A significant financial dispute persists between Hatfill and Locy, despite Hatfill’s settlement with the government,” the attorneys wrote in Locy’s motion. “The propriety of Locy’s assertion of privilege should be determined by this court on appeal.”

Locy’s attorneys also responded to Hatfill’s argument that Locy has not been harmed by the contempt order because she hasn’t yethad to pay any of the daily contempt fines the district judge slapped her with.

“The sanction by the District Court can easily be perceived as a condemnation of Locy by a federal court, which carries with it the potential adversely to affect Locy’s life and career,” the attorneys wrote in her court papers.

Lastly, Locy argued that if the Court of Appeals does dismiss her case, it must vacate the contempt order.

A representative from the Transportation Security Administration visited the home of a second blogger this week to serve a subpoeana seeking the source of a security directive that was posted on the blogger’s Web site, Wired reported.

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A TSA agent visited the home of Steven Frischling Tuesday night — the same day established travel writer Christopher Elliott also received a subpoena — to demand he reveal who supplied him with new screening requirements established by TSA after a would-be bomber boarded a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Christmas Day. Frischling, a freelance writer who authors a blog for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, had published the directive on Dec. 27.

Frischling said agents arrived at his house just moments after he received a phone call from Elliott warning him of a possible visit.

“They came to the door and immediately were asking, ‘Who gave you this document?, Why did you publish the document?’ and ‘I don’t think you know how much trouble you’re in.’ It was very much a hardball tactic,” Frischling told Wired.

Frischling’s laptop was seized and he decided to cooperate with the authorities — handing over the Gmail address from which the security directive was sent — after receiving advice from an attorney.