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Rudolf Bester came off the bench to score the winner as Namibia won 1-0 against Congo in their first leg…

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has encouraged his players to use their 3-2 FA Cup final victory over Hull City as a springboard to further success in the years ahead. Arsenal’s hopes of ending a nine-year trophy drought appeared slim after centre-backs…

Singapore billionaire Peter Lim, the new owner of Valencia, has realised a long-held dream by buying a top European football club — and will hope for better fortunes than some of his fellow Asian investors. Publicity-shy Lim, a fishmonger’s son who…

The 2014 FA Cup final headed into extra-time after Premier League rivals Arsenal and Hull City finished all square at 2-2 after 90 minutes at Wembley on Saturday. Underdogs Hull, in the first FA Cup final in the club’s 110-year history, put themselves…

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger kept faith with second-choice goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski for Saturday’s FA Cup final against Premier League rivals Hull City at Wembley Stadium. Fabianski, 29, usually provides back-up to Wojciech Szczesny, but he has…

The English Premier League chief at the centre of a sexism row came under fresh pressure to quit his post on Saturday. Last week Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper published leaked private e-mails sent by Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore…

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Liberia begins yet another journey for a place at the Africa Cup of Nations, a gathering of the continent’s football…

Arsenal have a gilt-edged opportunity to end their increasingly burdensome nine-year trophy drought on Saturday when the underachieving English giants meet Hull City in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Not since 2005, and an FA Cup final success on penalties…

Brazilian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a protest near the airport in Sao Paulo, the city hosting the football World Cup opener in less than a month. Scores of protesters torched at least two vehicles and launched fireworks at…

Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta has admitted that he was hurt when his manager Arsene Wenger was branded a “specialist in failure” by Chelsea counterpart Jose Mourinho. Arsenal face Hull City in the FA Cup final on Saturday, when they will be bidding…

UEFA on Friday fined both Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain 60 million euros ($82 million, £49 million) and capped their Champions League squad to 21 for falling foul of financial fair play rules. Newly-crowned English Premier League champions…

Midfielder Salah Jizoli’s 51st minute header handed Sudanese giants, Al Hilal a lone goal victory over TP Mazembe (DR Congo)…

Ray Shero was fired as general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday, three days after the team made a shocking second-round exit from the National Hockey League playoffs. The Penguins were ousted by the New York Rangers, who rallied from a 3…

Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi, making his debut at the World Cup finals, will be crucial in determining how far Nigeria go in Brazil. According to former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia, Mikel and forwards Victor Moses and Emmanuel Emenike will be the…

British-born Jill Ellis, unbeaten in two stints as interim coach of the US women’s national football squad, was named Friday as the team’s new full-time coach by US Soccer president Sunil Gulati. The 47-year-old American served as an assistant on the…

Laura Massaro, who has unexpectedly developed into the biggest threat to Nicol David’s long-term supremacy of the women’s game, carried her defence of the British Open title tenaciously into the semi-finals. Massaro, the only English woman ever to be…

The US traffic safety regulator Friday imposed a record $35 million fine on General Motors for its failure to promptly recall cars with ignition faults linked to at least 13 deaths. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hit GM with its…

Japan captain Makoto Hasebe Friday backed veteran striker Yoshito Okubo’s surprise selection for the World Cup and said he could help inspire younger players. Okubo has played only once in the last four years under Alberto Zaccheroni and there were…