Fifa executives accepted bribes to help secure the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said.

UEFA president Michel Platini has thrown his weight behind Jordan's Prince Ali bin al Hussein in his bid to unseat Sepp Blatter as the head of football's world governing body FIFA.

Reports now claim that Shayk dumped Ronaldo after finding messages on his phone from "dozens of women".

After 17 years at Liverpool, Gerrard will bid adieu to the club where he became an icon and move to Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy later this season.

The Spanish football season will be allowed to finish after the week-long Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) suspension and players' strike were lifted by Spain's national court.

In the old photograph, the duo were seen sporting bleach blonde hair and they look totally besotted with one another.

"Messi is more for the team, preparing the game and assisting, but Ronaldo is maybe more like the Brazilian Ronaldo and scores more. But in my team I would decide Messi, but both are fantastic. Messi now is playing completely different to Ronaldo. Ronaldo plays only in front," says Pele.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said that Danny Welbeck had been motivated by a desire to prove Manchester United wrong after he knocked his former club out of the FA Cup.

Lionel Messi scored the 24th hat-trick of his La Liga career as rampant Barcelona went to the top of the table.

Bangladesh football team faced a heart breaking defeat in the final match of Bangabandhu Gold Cup tournament against Malaysia.

Don't we love tragic heroes? Almost three years ago the packed audience at the home of Bangladesh's cricket in Mirpur and millions across the country cried with the Tigers after their two-run defeat against Pakistan in the Asia Cup final.