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 […]
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) In a major boost to Indian athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Tuesday ratified the gold medal for Indian long jump ace Anju Bobby George at the World Athletics Championship held at Monte Carlo in 2005. Anju, who had to settle for the silver, got the gold following the […]
Madrid, April 1 Real Madrid will look to bury the ghosts of last season’s Champions League failure when an injury-hit Borussia Dortmund travel to the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium Wednesday night. Last season saw the German side, who were the beaten finalists in the competition, destroy Real Madrid’s hopes of a tenth European Cup in the […]
The Hague, April 1 Dwight Lodeweges will succeed Marco van Basten as coach of sc Heerenveen at the end of the season, local media reported Tuesday. The 56-year-old Lodeweges is currently in his first season as coach of SC Cambuur Leeuwarden, the other professional club from the northern province of Friesland, reports Xinhua. Heerenveen are […]