The days of
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs being used as a winger by the
Premier League champions are drawing to a close, manager Sir
Alex Ferguson said on Friday.
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A special investigation unit to stamp out match-fixing and corruption in football has been rubber-stamped by UEFA, according to general secretary David Taylor on Friday. -- read full article
Dominic Cervi will become the fourth American in the Scottish Premier League after agreeing to join Celtic. The 22-year-old University of Tulsa player had been without a team after spurning interest from Major League Soccer's the Chicago Fire. Cervi will not be playing with the first team for now. Celtic manager Gordon Strachan said Friday the team's goalkeeping coach expects Cervi to be a two-year... -- read full article
Dutch international midfielder Wesley Sneijder is set to return to play for Spanish champions Real Madrid after recovering from a left knee injury, the club announced on Friday. -- read full article
European championship
finals will feature 24 teams instead of 16 from 2016, said UEFA
executive committee member Franz Beckenbauer on Thursday.
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France's Dominique Batheney, the assistant of previous United Arab Emirates coach Bruno Metsu who resigned, was named the new boss by the UAE football federation on Thursday. -- read full article
UEFA has agreed to expand the European Championship to 24 teams starting in 2016. Franz Beckenbauer, a FIFA executive member who sits in on UEFA's executive committee meetings as a nonvoting observer, said Thursday the decision will be officially ratified and announced Friday. The European Championship currently has 16 teams. -- read full article
The European football championships in 2016 will be expanded from 16 teams to 24, FIFA's European executive committee member Franz Beckenbauer said here Thursday. -- read full article
