Football's world governing body FIFA is in talks with authorities in Brazil about staging the 2010 World Cup there should South Africa be unable to host the event, a Spanish sports newspaper reported Thursday - though Brazilian officials denied the claim. -- read full article
Thousands of fans turned up late Thursday as AC Milan unveiled Brazilian new signing Ronaldinho after the 2004 and 2005 World Player of the Year officially began life with the Serie A club, an AFP photographer said. -- read full article
Manchester City's new manager
Mark Hughes began his tenure with a 2-0 victory away to Faroe
Islanders EB/Streymur in the first leg of their UEFA Cup first
qualifying round tie on Thursday.
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Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer has set his sights on playing for the Socceroos at the 2010 World Cup - if he can cement his place as Fulham's number one. -- read full article
Just two months after becoming European champions, Manchester United will arrive in South Africa on Friday for their pre-season tour resembling a club in crisis rather than a team at the peaks of its' powers. -- read full article
Unsettled Barcelona striker
Samuel Eto'o is considering a move to join Uzbek club Kuruvchi,
the Cameroon international said on Thursday.
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Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp has rejected a Monaco bid of 12 million pounds (15 million euros) for Croatia midfielder Niko Kranjcar. -- read full article
Football's world governing body FIFA is in talks with authorities in Brazil about staging the 2010 World Cup there should South Africa be unable to host the event, a Spanish sports newspaper claimed on Thursday. -- read full article
Robert Hoyzer, the German referee at the centre of the worst match-fixing scandal to hit the Bundesliga, is due out of prison on Friday after serving half of his two year and five month sentence. -- read full article
Gunmen released the kidnapped younger brother of Joseph Yobo, the Nigerian soccer star who played for Everton in England's Premier League last season. Norum Yobo was seized July 6 in the oil hub town of Port Harcourt and was reunited with his family Wednesday, police said Thursday. Rivers State police spokeswoman Rita Inoma-Abbey had no details about the release or if a ransom had been paid. -- read full article
Ante Razov scored the game's lone goal in the second half to lead Chivas USA to a 1-0 triumph over Club Santos Laguna on Wednesday in Group B SuperLiga action. -- read full article
