Arsenal’s miserable end-of-season form continued on Monday with a 2-1 defeat at Blackburn Rovers leaving them still short of securing third place in the Premier League.
Arsenal’s miserable end-of-season form continued on Monday with a 2-1 defeat at Blackburn Rovers leaving them still short of securing third place in the Premier League.
NEW DELHI - India’s football coach Bob Houghton has resigned over the delay in extending his contract beyond the Asian Cup next January, reports said on Tuesday.
ROME — Inter Milan, seeking to become the first Italian club to win a treble, can claim the first of the trophies Wednesday when it meets AS Roma in the Italian Cup final.
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina’s 2006 World Cup playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme has expressed his disappointment at missing out this year’s finals in South Africa but maintains he was right to turn his back on coach Diego Maradona.
PARIS - The long road to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa didn’t start at Wembley or the Maracana, but on the dusty outskirts of the Samoan capital Apia back in August 2007.
BANI YAS/DUBAI/AL AIN – League leaders Al Wahda will have to wait until Friday or the week after to see if they are crowned the UAE Pro-League champions for a fourth time.
The Arabian Gulf claimed their first ever HSBC Asian Five Nations (HSBC A5N) victory with a 16-9 win over Hong Kong at the Bahrain Rugby Football Club, a press release said.
DUBAI — As part of its sponsorship of the FIFA World Cup South Africa games, Al Majid Motors Co. – the sole distributor of KIA cars in the UAE – held the inaugural ‘KIA Champ into the Arena’ football tournament in Dubai last month, where 24 teams battled it out for the first prize – a group travel package to attend the 2010 FIFA World Cup quarter-final games in South Africa, a press release said.
ABU DHABI — The first ‘Grassroots Festivals’, held jointly by the UAE Football Association (UAEFA) and Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), the official sponsor of the UAE National Teams and Exclusive Grassroots and Youth Development partner, drew over 800 children from all over the UAE, and offered a glimpse into the UAE’s future football stars, a press release said.
Late goals from big-money buys Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka have helped Real Madrid scrape past lowly opponents in their last two outings to keep alive their hopes