Manchester United has told Cristiano Ronaldo there will be no new contract with a pay increase to match any Real Madrid offer, and that he must start displaying "commitment and loyalty." The winger has spent the summer making no secret of his desire to join the Spanish champion, but United chief executive David Gill said he believes that might have been a tactic to command a higher salary. -- read full article
Manchester United manager Alex
Ferguson would be the ideal coach to lead a British soccer team
at the 2012 London Olympic Games, organising committee chairman
Sebastian Coe said on Sunday.
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Chivas goalkeeper Luis Michel broke his left forearm during a Superliga game and will miss the 2008 Mexican Apertura league season. Michel was injured Saturday night when he went for a rebound and was hit by Gabriel Pereyra in the 89th minute against Atlante in San Jose, Calif. Team doctor Narciso Lopez confirmed the injury Sunday. -- read full article
Lotta Schelin and Jessica Landstrom scored goals and Sweden beat Norway 2-0 on Sunday in a tuneup for the women's Olympic soccer tournament. Schelin made it 1-0 in the 26th minute, first outrunning Norway captain Ane Hangeland Horpestad and then beating goalkeeper Christine Colombo Nilsen with a shot. -- read full article
Giancarlo Maldonado scored in the first half and Gerardo Espinoza added a late goal to lead Atlante to a 2-0 victory that knocked CD Guadalajara out of the SuperLiga tournament Saturday night. Atlante had to win to qualify for the SuperLiga semifinals after Houston defeated D.C. United in the other Group A game earlier Saturday. -- read full article
Los Angeles Galaxy captain David Beckham was pleased with the resolve his Major League Soccer side showed in battling back to a 2-2 draw against the New York Red Bulls Saturday. -- read full article
Chelsea arrive in China on Monday to kick-off their pre-season Asian tour with Luiz Felipe Scolari keen to assess his squad and the players fighting to impress him. -- read full article
Italy coach Marcello Lippi says
he wants his players to copy the selfless style of Manchester
United's England forward Wayne Rooney.
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Roma captain Francesco Totti has revealed he could reconsider his international retirement following Marcello Lippi's return as coach of the Italian national team. -- read full article
Manchester United came from
behind to force a 1-1 draw with the Kaiser Chiefs in the first
match of an exhibition series on Saturday.
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