Football

"Messi and Ronaldo are both great players without any doubt but for me Neymar is better. He is going to be the very best in the coming years because he is a complete player," Carlos said.

Lavezzi still believes his team-mate Messi will inspire Argentina to an international title despite losing to Chile in the Copa America 2015 final.

Hayatou has ruled African soccer for 27 years and counting, a decade longer than Blatter has been in charge of FIFA.

Czech Republic goalkeeper Petr Cech's transfer from Premier League champions Chelsea to local rivals Arsenal has been backed by the west London club's manager Jose Mourinho.

Blatter passionately denied any wrongdoing to German magazine Bunte despite two separate on-going Swiss and American investigations into FIFA.

The complaint to the South American Football Confederation means CONMEBOL's disciplinary committee will now deal with the incident.

Indian Super League franchise NorthEast United FC Mtonga for the second edition of the tournament.

France football legend Zinedine Zidane revealed on Tuesday that he would have accepted if Spanish giants Real Madrid had asked him to succeed Italian Carlo Ancelotti as head coach.

A 72nd-minute goal by veteran striker Claudio Pizarro gave Peru a 1-0 victory over 10-man Venezuela on Thursday.

France scored early and often to reach the last 16 at the Women's World Cup, England also progressed while South Korea came from behind to eliminate Spain.

Serbia reached their first Under-20 World Cup final as an independent nation after beating 10-man Mali 2-1 after extra time.

Sunil Chhetri became the first Indian footballer to score 50 international goals during his team's 2018 World Cup qualifying match against Guam.

Barcelona have paid 3,000,000 euros for the option to buy Brazilian footballer Gerson, according to media reports.

Sepp Blatter could go back on his promise to stand down as FIFA president, a former adviser said.

Roma chairman James Pallotta said the project took three years to be planned, and declared it will be "an historic milestone for the City of Rome and AS Roma".

"I didn't agree with Carlo Ancelotti's departure, just like I didn't agree when Vicente del Bosque and Jupp Heynckes were sacked back in the days," said Carlos.