LISBON (Reuters) – Benfica have agreed to sign Dutch winger Ola John from Twente Enschede on a five-year contract, the Portuguese club said on Thursda...

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• Date: Fri 25 May 04:08

LONDON (Reuters) – Wigan Athletic’s Roberto Martinez has flown to Miami to talk to the American owners of Liverpool about the vacant manager’s job at ...

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• Date: Fri 25 May 04:06

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Howard Webb, the referee when Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the pitch with a cardiac arrest and nearly ...

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• Date: Fri 25 May 04:05

(Reuters) – Former Italy and Bologna forward Marco Di Vaio has agreed to join Major League Soccer’s Montreal Impact and will link up with the team nex...

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• Date: Fri 25 May 04:04

By ERIC SAMUEL   PETALING JAYA: Match-fixing allegations have rock­ed Malaysian football once again.  Top Malaysian referee Shokri Nor was charged in ...

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• Date: Fri 25 May 03:01

PETALING JAYA: Senior match officials in Malaysia can earn between RM30,000 and RM40,000 a season.  A former FIFA referee told The Star that match off...

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• Date: Fri 25 May 02:59

By FARIK ZOLKEPLI   KOTA BARU: Terengganu coach Peter Butler will make major changes to his side following the 3-2 AFC Cup second round loss to Kelant...

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• Date: Fri 25 May 02:55

ROME (Reuters) – Juventus coach Antonio Conte signed a new contract with the Serie A champions on Thursday which will keep him at the club until 2015....

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• Date: Fri 25 May 02:07

LISBON (Reuters) – Valencia have signed fiery Portugal international right back Joao Pereira from Sporting, the Lisbon club said on Thursday. Pereira ...

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• Date: Fri 25 May 02:06

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged western European leaders not to boycott matches in Ukraine at next month’s Euro 2012 ...

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• Date: Fri 25 May 02:05

ROME (Reuters) – Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has said he trusts Mario Balotelli “100 per cent” when he says he would never let Italy down by getting ...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 20:08

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters):  Sepp Blatter’s reform of FIFA will continue on Friday when delegates at the 62nd FIFA Congress review a set of proposals aimed ...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 11:47

MOSCOW  (Reuters):  Russia have lost a second defender ahead of Euro 2012 after Lokomotiv Moscow full back Roman Shishkin was sent home from training ...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 11:42

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters):  A referee has been charged with attempting to fix a Malaysian Super League soccer match between the Lions XII and Sarawak, Sin...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 11:38

MILAN (Reuters) – Maverick striker Mario Balotelli sees Euro 2012 as the chance of a lifetime and is determined to repay Italy coach Cesare Prandelli ...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 01:29

(Reuters) – Czech Republic will be without captain Tomas Rosicky for this weekend’s Euro 2012 warm-up match against Israel due to a calf problem, Czec...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 01:26

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – FIFA has invited officials from the Serbian FA and from European governing body UEFA to talks in Zurich next week over its decisi...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 01:25

PARIS (Reuters) – Former Olympique Lyon coach Claude Puel will coach lowly Nice for the next three seasons, the Ligue 1 club said on Wednesday. “Nice ...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 01:24

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Dinamo Bucharest ended a miserable season on a high note by beating city rivals Rapid 1-0 to win the Romanian Cup on Wednesday a...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 01:18

By FARIK ZOLKEPLI (The Star) – KOTA BARU: Kelantan edged arch-rivals Terengganu 3-2 to reach the AFC Cup quarter-finals at the Sultan Mohd IV Stadium ...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 00:42

SOFIA, May 23 (Reuters) – Unheralded Ludogorets completed a remarkable domestic double in Bulgaria on Wednesday when they beat CSKA Sofia 1-0 in an il...

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• Date: Thu 24 May 00:01

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters):  Armed Racing Club fans stopped a player in the street and threatened to shoot him in the legs if their team failed to win th...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 14:36

LISBON, (Reuters): Portugal replaced injured midfielder Carlos Martins with Braga playmaker Hugo Viana in their 23-man squad for next month’s Euro 201...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 14:31

MIAMI (Reuters) – The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) has elected Antiguan Gordon Derrick, an official reprimanded in a FIFA ethics probe, as their new...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 03:46

LONDON: Wolfsburg have revived their interest in QPR’s Adel Taarabt. The German side wanted the 22-year-old in January when he was valued at £8mil. Bu...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 03:23

VIENNA: It’s the place to be for the world’s best football players: every summer, top clubs and national teams converge on Austria to train, relax and...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 03:21

LONDON: Roberto Martinez is expected to fly to United States tomorrow for talks about taking the Anfield hot seat. The Spaniard is due to meet Liverpo...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 03:18

SHANGHAI: Shanghai Shenhua say they plan to name a new head coach, just weeks after the big-spending Chinese football club appointed mercurial French ...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 03:16

PETALING JAYA: Super League leaders Lions XII stayed on top of the Super League with a 3-0 win over Sarawak at the Jalan Besar Stadium last night. Saf...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 01:54

PETALING JAYA: Two aspiring young talents from Malaysia will get a chance of a life time to spend five days at the Allianz Junior Football Camp in Bay...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 01:50

PETALING JAYA: Kelantan coach Bojan Hodak admitted that it will be hard to motivate his players in the AFC Cup round of 16 knockout tie against bitter...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 01:48

- By ERIC SAMUEL - PETALING JAYA: Mohd Nazmi Faiz is young and precocious. And he’s set to be the next big name in Malaysian football. The 17-year-old...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 00:45

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has turned down the chance of managing Aston Villa, a spokesman for the English Premier League said on Tues...

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• Date: Wed 23 May 00:00

BERLIN (Reuters) – Stricken Bayern Munich managed to beat Netherlands 3-2 in an badly-timed friendly on Tuesday, played less than 72 hours after their...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 23:56

MADRID  (Reuters) – Barcelona striker David Villa ruled himself out of the running for a place in Spain’s squad for Euro 2012 on Tuesday after failing...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 23:55

WARSAW (Reuters) – A late goal by Artur Sobiech gave Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland a 1-0 win against Latvia on Tuesday in a friendly in Klagenfurt, Austri...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 23:52

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – FIFA is heading into calmer waters after a series of corruption allegations over the last two years, its president Sepp Blatter s...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 23:50

BANGUI (Reuters) – French coach Jules Accorsi has left his job in charge of the Central African Republic shortly before they begin their World Cup qua...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 23:47

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – FIFA co-opted a woman to its executive committee for the first time on Tuesday and continued its reform process by pressing ahead...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 12:54

BERNE (Reuters) – FC Basel defender Aleksandar Dragovic has apologised for playing a schoolboy prank on the Swiss Defence Minister during the medal ce...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 12:32

BEIJING (Reuters) – Former Argentina coach Sergio Batista is close to signing a contract with big-spending Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua, who are on t...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 08:26

By ERIC SAMUEL PETALING JAYA: Malaysian Mohd Nazmi Faiz has successfully secured a three-year contract with Portuguese top flight football club Beira-...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 03:56

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Former defender Laurentiu Reghecampf has been named as Steaua Bucharest’s new coach after their failure to win the league title ...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 01:56

  PARIS (Reuters) – Montpellier president Louis Nicollin sported a mohican hairstyle as the new Ligue 1 champions celebrated their maiden title with a...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 00:18

LONDON (Reuters) – A return to the Champions League and the benefits of a new stadium should help Italy’s Juventus to stem their financial losses from...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 00:17