Madrid, April 6 (IANS) FC Barcelona supporters Saturday voted in favour of the remodelling of their World famous Camp Nou Stadium to increase its capacity to 105,000. The vote saw 118,000 club members given the option to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on the proposal to remodel the stadium over a four-year period between 2017-2012, which will […]
Geneva, April 6 (IANS/EFE) The Kazakh duo of Andrey Golubev and Oleksandr Nedovyesov stunned the Swiss team of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 7-6 (8-6) in Davis Cup doubles action Saturday, giving their country a 2-1 lead in that quarterfinal tie. Despite playing at home and enjoying a huge edge in big-match […]
Madrid, April 5 Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas has once again given his support to the man who has taken his first team place in league matches this season. Although Casillas is first choice for his club in the King’s Cup and Champions League, Diego Lopez has played in goal throughout the BBVA Primera Liga […]
Rio de Janeiro, April 5 Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari will use a fleeting trip to London this weekend to help decide the remaining places in his World Cup squad. The 65-year-old will attend Saturday’s Chelsea-Stoke clash at Stamford Bridge and Sunday’s West Ham-Liverpool fixture at Upton Park, Brazil’s football confederation said in a statement […]
Sao Paulo, April 4 Brazil’s labour ministry has denied ignoring problems at Sao Paulo’s Itaquerao stadium to ensure the venue is ready in time for this year’s FIFA World Cup. The labour ministry said in a statement Thursday that it had made regular checks of the stadium to ensure health and safety guidelines were met, […]
Sao Paulo, April 4 Record-breaking goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni has confirmed he will retire this year after 23 seasons. The 41-year-old former Brazil international had announced his retirement last year before agreeing to a one-year contract extension in December, reports Xinhua. “At the end of the year, I’m going to really stop,” he told a press […]
London, April 4 Seven players from Football League clubs in north-west England have been arrested in connection with alleged match-fixing in football matches. The seven footballers are aged between 18 and 30, BBC reported citing the National Crime Agency (NCA) as saying. It added that six other men originally arrested in December on suspicion of […]
Lahore, April 3 Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi is meeting head coach Moin Khan, captain Mohammad Hafeez and chief cricket consultant Zaheer Abbas Thursday to hear them out the reasons for the team’s failure to make the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 tournament. Sethi picked Moin as head coach from a shortlist submitted […]
Lahore, April 3 (IANS) Pakistan’s Twenty20 skipper Mohammad Hafeez has said his team played good and bad cricket in the World Cup 2014 tournament. Hafeez told the media on return home after the team’s defeat at the group stage that the West Indies played very well in the last five overs of their innings in the […]
Dhaka, April 2 (IANS/CMC) Advice under pressure to captain Darren Sammy from his deputy Dwayne Bravo helped craft an uncompromising sixth wicket stand that snatched the momentum away from Pakistan and propelled West Indies into the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 Championship. As hopes of a semi-final birth began fading with the West Indies 84 for […]