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Bayern calm, Dortmund excited ahead of CL final
Bayern Munich is trying to playing things down as the title favorite, while outsider Borussia Dortmund is eager to play up its chances. Even before ...
Inter fires Stramaccioni, hires Mazzarri
Inter Milan fired coach Andrea Stramaccioni on Friday and hired Walter Mazzarri as his replacement, five days after concluding the Serie A season with ...
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 ...
English player charged with betting breaches
Tottenham winger Andros Townsend was charged by the English Football Association on Friday with misconduct over breaches of its betting regulations.
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 ...
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 ...
Muslim hard-liners ID suspect in London attack
A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to ...
Military calls UK attack victim a model soldier
The soldier brutally murdered in a suspected terrorist attack in London was a popular 25-year-old ceremonial military drummer and machine gunner, a ...
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 ...
Q&A: What is known about London attack
A look at the key known facts about attack in south London in which two men killed a British soldier near military barracks Wednesday. Q: What ...
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 ...