Five goalkeepers were shortlisted on Monday for the FIFPro world team of the year for 2013, voted for by 50,000 members of the international players’ union. The five goalkeepers in the running for the award are Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus/Italy), Iker…
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England full-back cum wing Ben Foden is set to miss the start of the Six Nations after suffering a knee injury while playing for Premiership side Northampton. The 28-year-old Foden suffered the setback in the Saints’ 18-0 win over Newcastle last month…
Zimbabwean club side, Highlanders beat How Mine 3-0 to lift the major Cup (Mbada Diamonds Cup) in the top flight…
CS Sfaxien coach, Ruud Krol is reveling in his team’s triumph in the 2013 Orange CAF Confederation Cup, where they…
Favourites Ethiopia and Kenya register identical 3-1 wins over Zanzibar and South Sudan on Saturday 30 November to move level…
Barcelona slipped to a second consecutive defeat for the first time since April 2012 as they lost for the first time in the league this season 1-0 away to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. Barcelona had suffered their first defeat under coach Gerardo Martino…
If psychic diva Marcia Fernandes is proven right, millions of Brazilians will be sorely disappointed next July as she forecast a German victory in the final of the World Cup. “Germany is going to prevail,” the popular medium said in a highly anticipated…
Arsene Wenger does not believe comparisons should be made between this week’s match-fixing allegations and the problems in French football in the 1990s.
An injury-time header from Spain striker Fernando Llorente rescued misfiring Juventus in a 1-0 win over Udinese that sent the champions three points clear of Roma in Italy’s Serie A on Sunday. Early season pacesetters Roma had spurned the chance to…
Senegal striker Mame Diouf scored his first Bundesliga goal since August as Hanover broke their seven-match winless streak with a 2-0 victory over ten-man Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday. Diouf helped ease the pressure on Hanover coach Mirko Slomka when…
Asian tycoons, Russian oligarchs, Arab sheikhs, American businessmen – 10 years after Roman Abramovich’s takeover of Chelsea, European clubs remain targets for wealthy foreign investors, and rarely for their love of the shirt. From Chelsea to the recent…
Tunisian side, CS Sfaxien has won the 2013 Orange CAF Confederation Cup title despite a 2-1 loss to TP Mazembe…
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AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi insisted Saturday that chief executive Adriano Galliani will stay at the club despite the latter’s claim on Friday that he would resign. Galliani, who is also a vice-president, responded to recent criticism by saying…
Sixteen young Pakistani women will make history this weekend as they compete in the kabaddi world cup — the first time the conservative Muslim country has ever fielded an international women’s team in the sport. The traditional tag-wrestling sport…
Italy’s Dominik Paris won the first downhill of the men’s alpine World Cup season on Saturday, his time of 1min 49.90sec giving him the victory over Austrian Klaus Kroell. Kroell was second at snowy Lake Louise in 1:49.93, and France’s Adrien Theaux…
Gareth Bale took his tally to eight goals in his last seven games with a hat-trick as Real Madrid shrugged off the loss of Cristiano Ronaldo to beat Valladolid 4-0. With the Portuguese sidelined by a slight muscle strain, Bale proved to be decisive…
Fallen giants Rangers needed two late goals to book their place in the last 16 of the Scottish Cup with a 2-0 victory over ten-man Falkirk on Saturday. Rangers had the best of the first half chances but lacked a killer touch in front of goal as they…
European champions Toulon failed to go back to the summit of the French Top 14 table after they were shocked 23-0 by Stade Francais in Paris on Saturday. Bernard Laporte’s team had lost top spot to Clermont on Friday after the Vulcans came from behind…
Man of the moment Aaron Ramsey scored twice against his former club as Arsenal beat Cardiff City 3-0 on Saturday to move seven points clear in the Premier League. Ramsey broke the deadlock with a fine first-half header and after substitute Mathieu Flamini…