Wayne Rooney of England and the Netherlands' Ruud van Nistelrooy continue to lead the goal scorers' list with four goals each.
Champions France and surprise package Greece will be subject to very different expectations when they meet in their Euro 2004 football championship quarter-final on Friday.
The scorers' list after the conclusion of the group league stage at the Euro 2004 football championship.
Eight accused of football hooliganism in Portugal have vowed to challenge any ban orders slapped on them by the courts. \n\n
Dirk Kuyt, Mark van Bommel, Van Persie and Cocu all had gilt-edged opportunities to keep the Dutch run going but spurned them.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has already scored 10 goals this season.
According to newspaper reports, Steve McClaren will be named as Sven-Goran Eriksson's successor as England coach
Lleyton Hewitt refused to discuss how he proposed to Kim Clijsters after speaking publicly for the first time since their engagement was announced.
A round-up of Wednesday's action in the UEFA Champions League.
Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri believes Cristiano Ronaldo deserves to win the Ballon D'Or, following media reports that the forward has not been short-listed for the award's final three for the first time since 2010.
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone said Argentina look lost and have no leadership after the 3-0 loss to Croatia which left them on the verge of a disastrous early exit from the World Cup, in an audio message leaked to Spanish and Argentine radio stations.
Milan Baros, with five goals, emerged the top scorer of the tournament which saw 77 goals being scored.\n\n
Deschamps has proven both innovative and brave as coach, and is now one victory away from joining an elite club.
'Wayne Rooney is the golden boy of English football. Don't kill him,' coach Sven-Goran Eriksson urged.
Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari would not rule out being England manager one day, he said.
Luis Figo has parted ways with Premier Futsal
Sepp Blatter, Luis Figo, Michael van Praag and Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein have bid to stand for FIFA president.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who is also a member of the MCC's World Cricket Committee, is not in favour of tinkering with the hugely popular Twenty20 format as mooted by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
The Real Madrid footballer is one of the owners of the motor racing team which will compete in the new A1 Grand Prix series.
The Indian football team continued to paint a grim picture as they are languishing down at 156th spot in the latest FIFA rankings.
England have lost to Germany in their last three knockout meetings at major tournaments
Euro 2004 has been a tournament of teamwork, humility and bravery as the smaller nations have shown that size doesn't matter in football.
The captain of the Czech national team and 2003 European Footballer of the Year topped a poll of local sports journalists.
Former Manchester United star Paul Scholes has signed a marquee deal to play for the next three editions of Premier Futsal, with the inaugural season scheduled to be held next month, the League announced, on Thursday.
It has been a busy World Cup for Kazan's mural artists and in the early hours of Thursday morning they were back at work again painting the face of Neymar on a wall behind the Brazil team hotel.
IMAGES from the UEFA Champions League quarter-final played between Atletico Madrid and Leipzig on Thursday.
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'I asked the coach for an explanation. An explanation can be just two minutes long. It's not complicated ... But I am still at the coach's disposal. The coach knows this' 'I have the feeling that my name is being manipulated for reasons that have nothing to do with football'
Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo is comfortably the most influential soccer player online in China.
Several media houses have sensationalised Cristiano Ronaldo's 'bromance' with Moroccan kickboxer Badr Hari.
The stability and pragmatism of Carlos Queiroz's seven-year reign has firmly established Iran's as Asia's number one team, but the nation will go to the World Cup hoping to advance for the first time to the knockout phase.
When the Chelsea manager introduced himself to English football as the "special one" last June he met with scepticism, even mockery.
