Laxmi Negi/Rediff.com picks five of the best team performances from this round as the tournament heads into its business end.
Manchester City's stellar season gathered yet more momentum as the runaway English Premier League leaders reached the League Cup semi-finals with a penalty shootout victory at Leicester City.
'I start my 60th with these marvellous messages that you've all sent me. Thank you.'
The club spokesman said no immediate announcement would be made on Ranieri's successor, but added the club expected to say something within the next 48 hours.
Inter Milan have appointed Claudio Ranieri as their new coach, the Serie A club said on their website, on Thursday.
News of that transpired on and off the football field
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
'We're in the Champions League, but the last five games will be terrible.'
Images from Sunday's action in the Premier League.
As the tournament gets to the next round here's look at the quarter-finalists.
Manager Claudio Ranieri has challenged Leicester City to put in their best performance of the season when they host FC Copenhagen in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri will earn a five million pound ($7.33 million) bonus if his team win the Premier League title.
Earlier in the day, Bolivia beat Venezuela 3-1 at home and Uruguay and Paraguay drew 0-0 in Montevideo.
Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon missed training on Sunday morning because of a fever, the Italian football federation (FIGC) said.
'If the chairman is happy then I'm happy'
Even by the standards of modern soccer management mayhem, the vertiginous rise and equally stunning fall of Leicester City coach Claudio Ranieri takes the breath away.
Leicester City defender Danny Simpson has signed a new three-year contract that will keep him at the club until 2019. "I've been here two years now and the club is going places," the 29-year-old former Manchester United full back told Leicester's website (www.lcfc.com) on Thursday.
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has warned his players that Manchester City's 'magicians' can pick up three points even if the Foxes play a perfect game, when both sides meet in the Premier League at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
For the two month project, 12 men and 12 women will spend their days and nights in beds angled downward by six degrees, propped up with their feet at an incline above their heads.
Laxmi Negi/Rediff.com picks the very best players from what has been an outstanding tournament.
And what an exciting week it has been, with players returning to packed stadiums, some memorable individual and team performances and a medical incident which had the world on edge.
Rediff.com brings you glimpses of the violent protests that has rocked Acapulco in southern Mexico.
The Chelsea midfielder said he was sad to see coach Claudio Ranieri go.
At the start of the season Leicester City fans could hardly have imagined their side would take the Champions League by storm.
Italy manager Antonio Conte named his provisional squad for the European Championship on Monday, and his selection was notable as much for the player he left off as for those he chose.
LeicesterCity manager Claudio Ranieri says it will be "amazing" to walk onto the pitch as a league champion on Sunday at Chelsea, the club that sacked him 12 years ago.
With just a few days to go to the World Cup, Argentina are not considered favourites as they struggled through qualifying for the prestigious tournament.
The visitors' display was enough to earn them applause from their fans at the end.
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri will deliver on his vow to buy pizza for the squad after they kept their first clean sheet of the season in beating Crystal Palace 1-0 at the weekend.
Claudio Ranieri has been sacked as Juventus coach after a poor run of results and youth team boss Ciro Ferrara has taken over, the club said on Monday. The Turin side are a point above fourth-placed Fiorentina with two matches left and are in danger of slipping out of an automatic Champions League berth after a run of seven Serie A games without a win.
Leicester City's Jamie Vardy is banned from taking part in shooting drills at the training ground, the prolific striker revealed, because manager Claudio Ranieri wants him to rest his legs for Premier League matches.
Guardiola expects this season's Premier League title race to be more open than last season's
The head of the Argentine Football Association has apologised for the publication of a World Cup manual that included advice on how to woo Russian women.
Argentina will play at Jerusalem's Teddy Kollek Stadium on Saturday night in a World Cup warm-up match that has attracted huge interest among the Israeli fans, mainly because of Messi's planned participation. But the Palestinians are not happy that the match will be held in Jerusalem and Palestinian FA chief Jibril Rajoub wrote to Claudio Tapia, the head of the Argentinian FA, last week accusing Israel of using the match as a "political tool".
Manager Claudio Ranieri is confident that nerves will not derail Leicester City's season, after watching his team defeat Watford 1-0 to stretch their lead at the top of the Premier League table.
Leicester City boss Claudio Ranieri is not losing sleep over his team's Premier League title defence and believes the pressure to succeed is more on the new managers of the big-name clubs.
She came, she posed, she winked and conquered hearts!
English Premier League champions Leicester City paid a visit to Bangkok's glittering Grand Palace on Thursday and signed a well-wishing book for the country's revered monarch King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has urged his players to stick around for next season after helping the club to a remarkable English Premier League triumph.
Jubilant with his side's maiden Premier League title, LeicesterCity manager Claudio Ranieri has heaped praised on his players' determination and focus that led his side to the recent glory.
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