West Ham's bid to avoid a 30-million-pound payout over the Carlos Tevez affair via an appeal to the Court of Arbritration for Sport (CAS) looks set to fail after the tribunal said it would be unable to consider the case. -- read full article
Ukraine and Poland will remain co-hosts of the 2012 European Championship, but European soccer's governing body warned they could lose the tournament if preparations fall behind schedule. UEFA also confirmed the 2016 championship will expand from 16 to 24 teams, approved the renaming of the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League and said it is looking into suspicious betting patterns from 25... -- read full article
Bosnia squad for the European
Group Five World Cup qualifiers away to Turkey on Oct. 11 and at
home to Armenia on Oct. 15 announced by coach Miroslav Blazevic
on Friday.
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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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