Football

Bayern keeping calm ahead of final with Dortmund
Bayern Munich is approaching its third Champions League final in four years with the self-assured calm of a team fully in control after a season of ...
New UEFA nation Gibraltar eyes Euro football debut
Gibraltar became the smallest European football nation on Friday after the British colony's lengthy push to join UEFA was completed by gaining full ...
2 coaches leave Manchester United
Manchester United coaches Mike Phelan and Eric Steele are leaving the team as new manager David Moyes looks to install his own staff. Moyes, who the ...
AP Source: FIFA task force seeks 5-game racism ban
FIFA's new anti-racism task force will ask football's governing body next week to approve a mandatory five-match minimum ban for any player found ...
Platini wants a European sports police force
UEFA President Michel Platini has stepped up his call for a European sports police force to tackle betting, corruption, match-fixing, doping and ...
Eq. Guinea appeals being stripped of World Cup win
FIFA says Equatorial Guinea will appeal being stripped of a World Cup qualifying win against Cape Verde for fielding an ineligible player. Cape Verde ...
Reports: Inter Milan fires Andrea Stramaccioni
Inter Milan reportedly fired coach Andrea Stramaccioni on Friday, five days after concluding Serie A with a highly disappointing ninth-place finish.
Porto sells Rodriguez, Moutinho to Monaco for $90m
FC Porto says it has struck a deal worth a combined 70 million euros ($90 million) with Monaco for midfield duo James Rodriguez and Joao Moutinho.
7 Rapid Vienna fans to stand trial in Greece
A panel of judges in Greece has ordered seven fans of Austria's Rapid Vienna to stand trial over violence that broke out last year during a Europe ...
4 footballers in England cleared of sexual assault
Four footballers in England, including the son of Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, have been cleared of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in ...
Fan violence worries overshadow Italian Cup final
Worries of fan violence are high ahead of Sunday's Italian Cup final and Rome derby between Roma and Lazio. After audiences with both Pope Francis and ...
Hoffenheim beats Kaiserslautern 3-1 in playoff
Roberto Firmino scored two goals and set up another as Hoffenheim beat Kaiserslautern 3-1 in the first leg of the Bundesliga playoff on Thursday.
United refinances high-interest debt, cuts costs
Manchester United announced Thursday that more than $290 million of its high-interest debt has been refinanced, cutting the club's interest costs by ...
Bayern, Dortmund take rivalry to new level
Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will take their increasingly acrimonious rivalry to a new level Saturday in the first all-German Champions League ...
45 people indicted in Hungary in match-fixing scam
Hungarian prosecutors have indicted a Singaporean businessman known as Dan Tan and 44 Hungarians suspected of being involved in an international ...
Court orders Atletico Madrid pay $13 million debt
A Spanish court has ordered Atletico Madrid to pay a media company 10 million euros ($13 million) after finding the club had breached a television ...
David Beckham bids au revoir to football
David Beckham will give the world one last chance to see him on a football field on Sunday. The 38-year-old Beckham, who said last week he will retire ...
Rio Ferdinand signs new 1-year deal with MU
Rio Ferdinand has signed a new one-year contract with Manchester United that will take him into a 12th season at Old Trafford. The 34-year-old ...
Barcelona extends Adriano's deal through to 2017
Barcelona has renewed defender Adriano's contract through to 2017 and added a buyout clause at 90 million euros ($116 million). The club says the deal ...
Rosicky, Cech in Czech squad for Italy qualifier
Midfielder Tomas Rosicky and goalkeeper Petr Cech have been included in the Czech Republic squad for the 2014 World Cup qualifier against Italy next ...
Werder Bremen signs striker Petersen from Bayern
Striker Nils Petersen will remain in Bremen and not return to Bayern Munich after signing a four-year deal with Werder on Thursday. Petersen, who ...
France calls up Lacazette to replace injured Menez
France coach Didier Deschamps has called up Lyon forward Alexandre Lacazette for the first time to replace the injured Jeremy Menez for next month's ...