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Chinese authorities have now revealed the details of the corruption cases involving three Chinese soccer referees. Lu Jun, Huang Junjie and Zhou Weixin, along with former Chinese Football Association official Zhang Jianqiang, are all facing charges of taking bribes and match...
English Premier League side Liverpool announced that Brazilian midfielder Lucas Leiva has inked a new long-term deal with the club. Liverpool declined to clarify the exact length of the contract, but interim manager Kenny Dalglish stressed Lucas "has been signed because of what ...
The lower chamber of Poland's Parliament (Sejm) on Friday okayed a report of Sport Minister Adam Giersz on the implementation of undertakings related to Euro 2012 soccer championships and Poland's preparation for the event. Giersz told the Sejm that UEFA as early as in May 2009 ...
China's Posh and Becks - Xie Hui, a retired professional soccer player, and his supermodel wife Tong Chenjie - are to divorce after seven years of marriage. Xie, 36, and Tong, 30, who were often referred to as China's answer to David and Victoria Beckham, have already split up ...
Guangzhou's 3.2 million euros recruit Cleo scored his first goal to help the team beat Dalian 1-0 in the opening round of Chinese Football Association Super League (CSL) here on Saturday night. The Brazilian forward, who scored 10 goals for Partizan Belgrade in the 2010-2011 ...
Chelsea's Italian manager Carlo Ancelotti and defender David Luiz have each won Premier League awards for March, the club confirmed on Friday. Chelsea gained three league wins in match, including victories over Manchester United, Blackpool and Manchester City. Brazilian defender ...
Edison Cavani scored a hat-trick as Napoli beat Lazio 4-3 at home to move to the second spot on the Serie A table on Sunday. The entertaining encounter feted spectators with six goals in the last 35 minutes. Juventus gave under-fire coach Luigi del Neri a much needed boost as ...
FC Barcelona won 1-0 in Villarreal while Real Madrid suffered a 1-0 home defeat against Sporting Gijon on Sunday in Spain's La Liga. Gerard Pique scored Barca's goal in the second half of their difficult game away to the side that had kicked off the day third in the table. ...
Sporting Gijon won 1-0 away to Real Madrid in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium this Saturday night to end Jose Mourinho's incredible record as a coach. Mourinho had been unbeaten in a home league match for the past nine years, which had taken him through his periods with Porto, ...
Real Madrid will be all but obliged to beat English side Tottenham Hotspurs when the two sides play the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Tuesday night. Saturday's defeat to Sporting Gijon in the Bernabeu which was coupled with ...
Italian Serie A leaders AC Milan have been dealt a fine of 20,000 euros after fans shone lasers in the eyes of Inter Milan coach Leonardo and player Wesley Sneijder during their Saturday's 3-0 derby win, the league administrations said in a statement on Monday. Sneijder ...
Manchester United striker, Wayne Rooney, has been hit with a two-match ban after firing off offensive language into a pitchside camera during the team's 4-2 win at West Ham. His club has now launched an appeal. Man U is pressing to try to make it only a one-game suspension, and a ...
Real Madrid will play host to Tottenham Hotspur in the UEFA Champions League Quarter-Finals first leg tomorrow. Both teams will enter this game on the back of a disappointing domestic result at the weekend when Real Madrid suffered a 1-0 home defeat in La Liga at the hands of ...
Last night's Champions League action yielded a glut of goals and two red cards. With details of Tuesday's explosive action from Europe, here's CRI Sports' Paul Ryding.
Hangzhou Greentown were held to a goalless draw by Al Ain at home in the third round of the AFC Champions League on Wednesday. After this match, Hangzhou Greentown has got 4 points, ranking No. 2 in Group F.
Possibly less fans than expected may come to Poland for the 2012 European Football Championship, the Warsaw city paper Metro reported Wednesday. According to Metro, most will be Poles and Ukrainians, who will co-host the tournament. To date, UEFA has received 12 million ...
China on Tuesday established its first state-level yuan-based fund of funds (FOF) with its total value to reach 60 billion yuan (about 9 billion U.S. dollars). The yuan FOF was jointly initiated and established by the Suzhou Ventures Group (SVC) and China Development Bank Capital ...
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, reaffirmed Monday that it would give more prominence to stabilizing prices, and implementing a prudent monetary policy during the next year. Further, China will make its monetary policies more targeted, flexible, and ...
China will resume levying a 10 percent purchase tax on vehicles with engine sizes of 1.6 liters or less beginning in 2011 as the country rebounds from the financial crisis and the economy has regained its rapid growth, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Tuesday. China halved the ...
China needs to strengthen supervision over "too big to fail" banks as slower economic growth is possible next year and there are still uncertainties in the global market, said Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission. "China's banking standards, ...
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