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Updated Dec 9, 2013 9:08 AM ET   Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck Ribery will fight it out for the title of the world’s best player after FIFA announced its shortlist for the 2013 Ballon d’Or. Argentina and Barcelona forward Messi has won…

Sports ministers from all over the world have converged on Doha for the Doha Goals summit which kicked off in the Gulf State on Monday. The closed-door forum sponsored by the Emir of Qatar has also brought together investors, lobbyists and sports personalities…

Coach Pep Guardiola has demanded holders Bayern Munich finish the Champions League’s group phase with the perfect record of six wins by seeing off Manchester City at home on Tuesday. Bayern are on a record run of 10 consecutive Champions League victories…

The Los Angeles Dodgers have re-signed pitcher Brian Wilson on a one-year, $10 million deal, strengthening a bullpen that has recently lost…

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes that his side’s five-point lead at the top of the Premier League table means that it is impossible to ignore their credentials as title contenders. British media pundits have predicted that Wenger’s men will fail…

CAF is pleased to announce that the media accreditation process for media representatives wishing to cover the Final Tournament of…

Equatorial Guinea and South Africa took giant leap towards a place at the next round of the qualifiers for the…

Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng has said he is delighted to potentially face half-brother Jerome Boateng at another FIFA World Cup™…

Defending champions Zambia have bowed out of the 2013 COSAFA Under-20 Youth Championships after a 1-0 loss to South Africa…

Maria Sharapova described her comeback after a four-month injury absence as a ‘baby step’ forward in her recovery. The four-time major winner took on 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic in an exhibition match in Bogota as she tests the injured shoulder…

Brazil’s organisational reputation, already under fire in the run-up to the World Cup, suffered another blow Sunday when three spectators were seriously hurt in violent clashes at a league match. Police said that fans of Atletico Paranaense and Vasco…

Emmanuel Riviere scored his eighth goal of the season to give Monaco a 1-0 win over 10-man Ajaccio on Sunday and cut the gap on Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain to two points. Riviere struck in the 75th minute as Monaco replaced Lille, who had lost…

Three people were arrested on Sunday following fresh allegations of match-fixing in English football, authorities announced. Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said it had acted on information passed on by the Sun on Sunday tabloid. The paper said…

Napoli dropped two precious points in the Italian title race on Saturday after Dujan Basta levelled late on for Udinese to grab a share of the spoils from a 3-3 draw. Rafael Benitez’s men started their 15th match of the campaign looking to build on…

Real Madrid badly missed the firepower of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale as they were held 0-0 away to third tier Olimpic Xativa in the first-leg of their Copa del Rey fourth round tie on Saturday. With Ronaldo suspended following his red card in…

Hosts South Africa went undefeated on the first day of the IRB’s Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens on Saturday, but England failed to make the cut for the Cup quarter-finals. Also ending day one with a 100 percent record were current series leaders New Zealand…

Ten-man Tanzania beat Uganda 3-2 on penalties to knock the defending champions out of the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup in Mombasa on Saturday. The champions fought back from a 2-1 half time deficit for a 2-2 draw at regulation time in the first of two…

Manchester United’s dismal season lurched into crisis on Saturday after a 1-0 loss at home to Newcastle United condemned the champions to their fifth defeat of the campaign. Yohan Cabaye’s goal just after the hour gave Newcastle their first victory…

There was a minute’s applause before Manchester United’s game with Newcastle United on Saturday as the English Premier League honoured former South African president Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday. Prior to kick-off, the players from both sides…

An English non-league club on Saturday announced that it had sacked two of its players after they were charged over match-fixing allegations. Michael Boateng and Hakeem Adelakun, both 22, were charged this week with conspiracy to defraud contrary to…