Former President of the European Football Union (UEFA) Frenchman Michel Platini has been offered the position of personal adviser to the chairman of the Professional Footballers' Union (Fifpro) Philippe Piata, the French sports newspaper L'Equipe said.more
Nantes players celebrate the anniversary of the death of their friend Emiliano Sali wearing white and blue T-shirts, in which they will appear on Sunday in a league match against Bordeaux. The athlete died on January 21 last year in a plane crash.more
Piotr Zielinski assisted at the Lorenzo Insigne goal, and Napoli players won at home against the defending Lazio Rome 1: 0 in the Italian Cup quarter finals. Arkadiusz Milik also appeared in the colors of the hosts.more
Chelsea were held to 2-2 draw by 10-man Arsenal on Tuesday as the visitors recovered from the first-half sending off of defender David Luiz to twice peg back the Blues in a pulsating London derby.more
Real Madrid have signed attacking midfielder Reinier Jesus from Flamengo. The 18-year-old joins the La Liga club on a six-year deal for a reported €30m (£25.6m) fee.more
Liverpool players are more likely heading for their first Premier League era in the era of England. On Thursday, the 24th line will be followed by Wolverhampton Wanderers, who have been regularly scoring with the top teams for many months.more
Lionel Messi's second-half strike against 10-man Granada gave new coach Quique Setien a winning start at Barcelona, but it was not a convincing display by the La Liga champions.more
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a brace on Sunday as Juventus beat Parma 2-1 to move four points clear of Inter Milan at the top of Serie A. The Portugal international's deflected strike wrongfooted goalkeeper Luigi Sepe and handed the hosts the lead two minutes before half-time.more
Liverpool players are confidently heading first since 1990 as the England championship. Yesterday they beat Manchester United 2: 0 at their own stadium and are leading by 16 points over the second Manchester City.more
Jürgen Klopp has labelled the switch of the 2021 African Cup Nations Cup from summer to January a "catastrophe" to continue his complaints against football's global calendar. Liverpool would lose three leading players in Sadio Mané, Mohamed Salah and Naby Këita for the African tournament, now set to run from 9 January to 6 February next year.more
Teemu Pukki has been crowned 2019 Athlete of the Year at the annual Finland Urheilugaala (Sports Gala) in Helsinki. Pukki was one of 26 nominees for the prestigious national award, beating the likes of Finland teammate and Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky and Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas to the crown.more
Liverpool's Sunday meeting with Manchester United is to be the most interesting of the matches of the 23rd round of English Premier League. Only Liverpool "Red Devils" could not beat this season. more
Napoli players, including Arkadiusz Milik and Piotr Zielinski, will check on Saturday the form of goalkeeper Fiorentina Bartlomiej Dragowski in the 20th round of the Italian league. Wojciech Szczesny, who defends the title of Juventus Turin, will take up Parma one day later.more
In the 20th round of the Spanish football league, all eyes will be on Barcelona, where coach Quique Setien will make his debut. The host in the table "Pride of Catalonia" will take Granada. The meeting between Real Madrid and Sevilla also promises to be interesting.more
Napoli have bolstered their midfield options with the reported €24million signing of Stanislav Lobotka from Celta Vigo. The length of the 25-year-old's contract is yet to be confirmed by the club, but he is said to have signed until 2024 and becomes Napoli's second signing of the month following Diego Demme's switch from RB Leipzig.more
Lorenzo Pellegrini scored twice to give Roma a 2-0 win at Parma on Thursday and a place in the Italian Cup quarterfinals. Roma will face Juventus, which has won the trophy a record 13 times - including four of the past five editions.more
At the beginning of February Łukasz Piszczek will know if he will spend the next season in the colors of Borussia Dortmund. His contract expires this summer.more
The defender of the Polish national team and Monaco Kamil Glik was shown a yellow card and led to a penalty kick in the overdue match of the French league against Paris Saint Germain. His team lost at home 1: 4, and the team from Paris strengthened the first place in the table.more
Argentine Paulo Dybala scored twice as Juventus brushed aside Udinese to reach the Coppa Italia quarter-finals. He combined brilliantly with Gonzalo Higuain who prodded in the opener before scoring a penalty after keeper Nicolas tripped Federico Bernardeschi.more
Tomorrow begins the rematch round of the German football league. The competition for the title can be more even than usual, because this time Bayern Munich does not dictate the pace. The fight of Robert Lewandowski for the crown of the top scorer is also promising.more
