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After years of trying, South American coaches are finally gaining a foothold in European football and their growing influence will be heavily felt as the Champions League round of 16 gets under. Three of the eight teams in action this...

Manuel Lanzini scored an early goal for River Plate but they were pegged back to a 1-1 draw at Rosario Central on Sunday, leaving Estudiantes as the only team on maximum points in the Argentine Final championship. Talented midfielder Lanzini...

Arsenal set up an FA Cup quarterfinal meeting with Everton after overcoming Liverpool 2-1 in a feisty and gripping fifth-round match at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday. Liverpool had trounced Arsenal 5-1 at Anfield in the Premier League last weekend,...

Real Madrid extended their unbeaten run to 25 matches and rejoined Barcelona and Atletico Madrid at the top of La Liga when Jese, Karim Benzema and Luka Modric scored in a 3-0 win at Getafe on Sunday. Barca and Atletico...

Sheffield United substitute Chris Porter struck twice in the closing stages as the Blades beat Nottingham Forest 3-1 in the FA Cup on Sunday. Victory at their Bramall Lane ground took the third tier club into the last eight, where...

Manchester City exacted their revenge on a Chelsea side that has beaten them twice in the Premier League this season with a convincing win that puts them in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. Stevan Jovetic and Samir Nasri scored...

Sunderland continued their cup success this season as a much-changed side saw off a poor Southampton team to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals. Gus Poyet's Black Cats have already reached the Capital One Cup final and they were rarely tested...

Bayern Munich hope Germany midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger will start against Freiburg in the Bundesliga on Saturday as the holders warm-up for next week's Champions League clash at Arsenal. The 29-year-old made his comeback after three months out with an ankle...

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Aminu Maigari is livid with the reports going on that the NFF are planning to impose a foreign assistant on Super Eagles head coach, Stephen Keshi. It has been widely disseminated that...

Former Brazil and Inter Milan forward Adriano played his first match for nearly two years when he made a late cameo appearance in Atletico Paranaense's 1-0 win over The Strongest in the Libertadores Cup. Adriano barely had time to get...