Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United on Friday as manager Alex Ferguson said he wants to extend the winger's contract and warned Real Madrid to stay away from his players. Ferguson also said Ronaldo, who played with an ankle injury as United won English and European titles in May, will begin full training in a month. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:02:43 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Lyon has won seven straight French league titles and appears likely to extend the streak again this season. "Lyon is still above the rest of the pack," Olympique Marseille forward Mamadou Niang said ahead of this weekend's openers. Lyon begins Sunday at home against Toulouse, a day after Marseille visits Rennes and Bordeaux faces Caen. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:05:52 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Liverpool, without injured captain Steven Gerrard, beat Lazio 1-0 at Anfield on Friday in a friendly warm-up for next week's Champions League match with Xabi Alonso in fine form. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:26:32 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Dutch international Mark van Bommel has been handed the captain's armband by Bayern Munich coach Jurgen Klinsmann, the German club said on Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:50:47 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Germany's veteran goalkeeper Jens Lehmann is handing in his international gloves after 10 years' service, the German football federation (DFB) said on Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:22:21 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Boavista, who were kicked out of Portugal's top flight after a match-fixing scandal, had their stadium seized by fiscal authorities on Friday, as the club sink deeper into financial crisis. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:45:05 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Partizan Belgrade have told
Serbia midfielders Zoran Tosic and Ljubomir Fejsa to return from
the Beijing Olympics for their Champions League third qualifying
round tie against Turkey's Fenerbahce.
-- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:15:58 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Lee McCulloch has warned Rangers' Euro flops that they will have to win the Scottish Premier League to erase the bitter memories of their Champions League humiliation. -- read full article
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:08:16 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Manchester United will be without
Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney in Sunday's Community Shield
against Portsmouth at Wembley (1400 GMT), the traditional
curtain-raiser to the new season.
-- read full article
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:00:02 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Queens Park Rangers' billionaire
owners are not like "kids in a sweet shop" and are building the
English Championship (second division) club into a force to be
reckoned with, said manager Iain Dowie.
-- read full article
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:00:03 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
