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VICE Sports World News Roundup: May 24, 2016

Start your day with VICE Sports. Here's our morning roundup of the sports news from around the world.
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Good morning, America. It's May 24, 2016. Welcome to the VICE Sports World News Roundup. Be sure to stop by every morning for more headlines from around the world.

Manchester United officially fired manager Louis Van Gaal. Jose Mourinho is expected to take the job today.

Another management shakeup is taking place not far from Manchester, where David Moyes is reportedly an option to take over Everton's vacant managerial position.

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Andrea Pirlo is the latest European import to complain about the amount of running players do in MLS. "It's a very hard league to play in," he said. "It's very physical, there's a lot of running." Thierry Henry made similar statements when with the New York Red Bulls.

Ronaldo limped out of Real Madrid training today and is reportedly in doubt for Saturday's Champions League Final.

Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber is out of the French Open. She was the third seed and went down in the first round to Kiki Bertens.

Eintracht Frankfurt narrowly escaped relegation with a 1-0 second leg win over FC Nürnberg. The team had been set for relegation after captain Marco Russ scored an own goal in the first leg, just a day after finding out he had cancer.

FIFA fired Markus Kattner, the organization's former finance director, because he was paying himself way too much.

Ozil made the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.

— Mesut Özil (@MesutOzil1088)May 22, 2016

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Unfortunately, Coco Crisp did not make the catch.

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