Beckham on PSG's squad to face Marseille on Sunday
David Beckham could make his debut Sunday with Paris Saint-Germain when the team faces rival Marseille. The 37-year-old former England captain has not ...

AC Milan stuns Barcelona 2-0 in Champions League
With its first win over Barcelona in more than eight years, AC Milan put itself in prime position to advance to the Champions League quarterfinals.

Man United chief executive David Gill to step down
Manchester United chief executive David Gill said Wednesday he is to step down in June after a decade at the helm of one of the world's most valuable ...

Bayern cruises to 3-1 win at beleaguered Arsenal
Arsenal's sorry season keeps getting worse. Toni Kroos and Thomas Mueller scored early in the first half, leading Bayern Munich over the Gunners 3-1 ...

US, Iran find common ground: Olympic wrestling
The caretakers of the Olympics may have inadvertently accomplished what has eluded diplomats: Galvanizing Iran and the U.S. on a common goal.

Messi tops AP rankings again, ahead of Reus
Barcelona's Lionel Messi again tops the Associated Press soccer rankings this week, but Borussia Dortmund striker Marco Reus came close to toppling ...
Egypt soccer protests hit restive Suez Canal city
Thousands of soccer fans enforced a work stoppage Sunday in Egypt's restive city of Port Said to protest what they called government "injustices," ...

Pro soccer player Robbie Rogers says he is gay
Robbie Rogers, a former player for the U.S. national team and Major League Soccer, says he is gay and "could not be happier" about his decision to go ...

Beckham must wait before making PSG debut
David Beckham will have to wait at least one more week to make his debut for Paris Saint-Germain because his coach says he needs to get in better ...

Police track elusive figure in soccer match-fixing
At 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2011, when early risers would have been sipping espressos and buttering toast, a man dressed in black disembarked at Milan's ...

Soccer gambling thrives in Cambodian border town
Soccer betting is illegal in Cambodia, but visitors to this seedy frontier town wouldn't know it. In the rundown market where the smell of incense ...

Column: Alex Ferguson drinks at fountain of youth
A big reason why Manchester United now have a good chance of knocking Real Madrid out of the Champions League is also a big reason why Alex Ferguson ...

Much-investigated ref denies fixing soccer matches
It was in the final minutes of a June 2011 soccer game between Nigeria and Argentina when the little green flags on computer screens in London started ...

Arrested Singaporean reveals match-fixing secrets
When police arrested Wilson Raj Perumal in Finland, it didn't take long for him to realize that his criminal buddies had ratted him out. He's been ...

Ukraine: 5 dead in crash-landing
A passenger plane carrying soccer fans headed for a match skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on ...

Ronaldo helps Madrid tie United 1-1
Cristiano Ronaldo scored on a spectacular header for Real Madrid in a 1-1 draw with Manchester United on Wednesday night in the first leg of their ...

David Beckham has 1st training session with PSG
David Beckham has started his first training session with Paris Saint-Germain, with dozens of camera crews and photographers jostling for position at ...

Turkish trial shows soccer corruption at the top
Turkey loves both soccer and strong men, so it's no surprise that Aziz Yildirim is a household name. A civil engineer, Yildirim made a fortune in ...

Player regrets getting entangled with match-fixing
Soccer player Mario Cizmek thought it would just be one match. Ease up and let the other team win, he told himself, then collect the payoff and start ...

South Korean soccer player to get Olympic medal
A South Korean soccer player who displayed a political banner at the London Olympics will get his bronze medal back, the IOC announced Tuesday.
WADA urges soccer to conduct more EPO tests
The World Anti-Doping Agency urged soccer leaders on Tuesday to conduct more blood doping tests and intelligence operations to unmask cheating players
AP Source: SKorean to get Olympic medal back
A South Korea soccer player who displayed a political banner at the London Olympics will receive his bronze medal, an official familiar with the ...

Soccer match-fixers choose their targets carefully
Mario Cizmek was convicted of rigging games in Croatia's first division in 2010. At his trial and in subsequent interviews with The Associated Press, ...

Match-fixing probe keeps Italian prosecutor busy
Two years ago, a curious case landed on the desk of Italian prosecutor Roberto Di Martino in the town of Cremona. Five players on the local ...