Football

Barcelona equalled a club record of 12 consecutive league wins as Neymar and Lionel Messi were among the scorers in a 6-0 thrashing of struggling Getafe 6-0 at the Nou Camp on Saturday.

Gianluigi Buffon is three minutes away from equaling a 22-year record after Juventus beat Sassuolo 1-0 to move provisionally six points clear at the top of Serie A on Friday.

"Roma made things hard for us, they had dangerous chances, but after that we played well," Ramos was quoted as saying by the Marca newspaper on Wednesday.

Afghanistan women's football team will be the first to wear a new hijab that is connected to the base layer under their national team shirt. The new creation, which also includes leggings, will make it easier for women to combine their soccer with their f...

Chelsea must channel their anger properly and focus of being 'tough underdogs' when they host French champions Paris St Germain in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie on Wednesday, manager Hiddink has said.

Ranieri said that the team's self-belief stemmed from the fact that they had already achieved their main target of avoiding relegation and that they would not flag in their remaining fixtures.

"I was elected by the FIFA congress to be the leader of FIFA — to be leading FIFA, not to be the ambassador of FIFA or to be the deputy of the general secretary of FIFA," Infantino said.

"Cristiano is unique with his shot, only he has it," Zidane after Ronaldo produced three dipping shots from distance and a header. "I could hit the ball well but from closer in. I don't know the feeling, few players have it."

Louis van Gaal has urged United to be cautious as they closed in on the Premier League's top four after Tuesday's 1-0 win over Watford at Old Trafford.

Oxlade-Chamberlain was injured during last week's 2-0 loss to Barcelona in the Champions League round of 16.

Spain is the only nation to successfully defend the tournament since its inception in 1960, having lifted the trophy in 2008 and 2012.

Arsenal succumbed to two goals from 18-year-old Premier League debutant Marcus Rashford, who scored twice on his Europa League bow three days earlier.

Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet has compared the club's situation to that of Chelsea, who won the League Cup in 2005 — their first season under Jose Mourinho — to spark a decade of success domestically and in Europe.

All five FIFA candidates darted across Zurich in a final push to secure votes in Friday's presidential election.

Messi has sent not one, but two jerseys to the five-year-old Afghan boy who became an Internet sensation last month when he was pictured wearing a plastic bag with "Messi" scrawled on it in marker pen.

Blatter, who will turn 80 next March, was at the helm of FIFA for 17 years. He said that his fate would have been different if the United States was granted the honour of organising the 2022 World Cup and not Qatar.