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Barca, Madrid to warm up for Champions semifinals
Barcelona and Real Madrid both play at home on Saturday in the Spanish league looking to make their final adjustments while resting some weary legs ...
Bayern coach Heynckes heaps praise on Lionel Messi
Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes compared Lionel Messi to some of football greatest players. "He is a phenomenon. He is in the league of Zinedine ...
Bayern tops AP rankings; Ronaldo is best player
Bayern Munich's players are used to scoring goals for fun, but this time it was the club netting a hat-trick as the German Bundesliga champion was ...
Ronaldo hits 50 goals for season in win for Madrid
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 49th and 50th goals in all competitions this season as Real Madrid won 3-0 at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday, while Barcelona ...
Messi returns to help Barca reach semifinals
Lionel Messi has never been short on late-game heroics, and not even a sore hamstring stopped him from going on as a substitute to help Barcelona ...
Barcelona's Messi cleared to play vs. PSG
Barcelona says forward Lionel Messi has been cleared to play Wednesday's Champions game against Paris Saint-Germain after injury, but that he will ...
Bayern top AP rankings, Messi drops out of top 10
Bayern Munich was voted top team by the AP's panel of global football journalists in the week the German team won the Bundesliga in record time.
9-man Atletico sputters to 0-0 draw at Getafe
Nine-man Atletico Madrid sputtered to a 0-0 draw at Getafe Sunday in the Spanish league, as Diego Simeone's team fell further adrift of Real Madrid ...
Column: Football, fate take Beckham full circle
Football, fate and his own refusal to take age lying down are carrying David Beckham back to the scene of his greatest triumph as a footballer.
PSG comes back twice to draw 2-2 with Barcelona
Paris Saint-Germain showed it has the guts to go with the wallet as the ambitious big spenders twice came from behind to salvage a 2-2 draw at home ...
Bayern gets close to full marks in AP footy poll
It takes something extra special to dethrone Lionel Messi. So that's exactly what Bayern Munich striker Claudio Pizarro did, scoring four goals in a ...
PSG faces huge task to topple Barcelona in CLeague
Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic described Barcelona as "the best team ever on this planet," saying limiting the amount of mistakes his ...
Barcelona, Madrid held to draws before CL quarters
Lionel Messi's 19th straight scoring effort in the Spanish league wasn't enough to stop Barcelona from drawing 2-2 at Celta Vigo, as the leaders ...
Column: Europe doesn't need fat lady this season
Although the tulips are barely starting to bloom as winter surrenders to spring in Europe, suspense has gone from the continent's top football leagues
Lionel Messi eyes another scoring milestone
With a goal against Celta Vigo on Saturday, Lionel Messi can become the first player to score against every Spanish league opponent in consecutive ...
Amazing goal earns Greek kids ticket to Barcelona
From a patchy field in northern Greece to Barcelona's famed football academy, this youth team is about to make it big. AO Giannina captivated the ...
AP Global Football 10 Quotebox
Tom Timmermann, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States. "Barcelona, how could I have ever doubted you? To come through with that kind of win in that ...
Barcelona earn maximum points in AP football poll
It was difficult to vote for any other team. Barcelona received maximum points in the AP's latest global football rankings on Tuesday, with the team's ...
Barcelona, PSG to meet in Champions League
Paris Saint-Germain's new-found status among the European elite will face its first real test after the French club was drawn Friday against Barcelona ...
Messi leads Barca back to oust Milan with 4-0 win
Hailed as perhaps football's greatest team ever, Barcelona faced a challenge no club had overcome: advancing in the Champions League after a 2-0 ...
Ronaldo's goals send him to top of AP rankings
Cristiano Ronaldo surged to the top of the AP's latest global football rankings on Tuesday, thanks to decisive goals for Real Madrid in La Liga and ...
Barcelona needs goals against AC Milan
Winning by a three-goal margin may be too much even for Barcelona. Three weeks after losing to AC Milan 2-0 in the first leg of the last 16 of the ...
Ronaldo scores 2 as Madrid beats Celta Vigo 2-1
Cristiano Ronaldo ensured there was no letdown for Real Madrid after its win over Manchester United by scoring twice in a 2-1 victory at Celta Vigo ...
AC Milan wins but loses 2 key players to injury
AC Milan warmed up for its second-leg match at Barcelona with a 2-0 win at Genoa on Friday — but lost two key players to injury just four days before ...
Barcelona prepares for AC Milan against Deportivo
In dire need of recovering its confidence and dominant form, Barcelona couldn't have asked for a better opponent than Spanish league struggler ...