Football

Villa broke his left leg competing in the Club World Cup in December and has not played since.

Ferguson has confirmed that the club are interested in securing the signing of highly rated midfielder Lucas Moura.

Smalling, who was just recovering from a groin injury sustained in May that ruled him out of the European Championship, broke a metatarsal earlier this week.

PSG has paid a reported 20 million ($25 million) for the 30-year-old Ibrahimovic.

Former England manager Fabio Capello has been chosen to take charge of the Russian national team by country's FA (RFU).

The Chelsea defender has been cleared of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand but it's not the end of the story.

More than 300 fans gathered in Shanghai to welcome Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba.

Action would be taken against Samir Nasri, Hatem Ben Arfa, Jeremy Menez and Yann Mvila for misbehaving at Euro.

England could have had their own Andrea Pirlo at Euro 2012 had Paul Scholes been convinced to play.

Del Bosque said he had no difficulty finding players to take the penalties.

The technique is named after Antonin Panenka, who used it to win the 1976 European Championship for Czechoslovakia.

This has come following the Dutch failing to advance to the second round of Euro 2012.

France's assistant coach Alain Boghossian says the team is now focused to beat Spain.

B-team coach Julio Velazquez will take over as the relegated club's new manager.

The Czechs are bracing themselves for a tough game against Cristiano Ronaldo's men in the first quarter-final of Euro 2012.

The Germany coach has predicted the midfielder will come good against Greece in the quarter-finals.