Two people on motorcycles shot at a supermarket belonging to the family of Antonela Roccuzzo, wife of Lionel Messi, in Rosario, in Argentina's Santa Fe province early on Thursday morning, local media and the city's mayor reported.

A tenacious Barcelona frustrated Real Madrid to secure a 1-0 win over their bitter rivals in an ill-tempered Copa del Rey semifinal first leg on Thursday.

Eleta Kingsley was recalled to the national football team as the Nigerian-born naturalised forward made the cut in Bangladesh’s 27-member preliminary squad for the Tri-Nation Cup involving Seychelles and Brunei from March 22 to 28 in Sylhet.

The rematch of an Indonesian football game that ended in one of the sport’s worst stadium stampedes has been postponed due to the risk of further crowd trouble, police said on Thursday.

Bangladesh U-16 women’s football team aside, no women’s team could ever cross the hurdles of any AFC competitions’ qualifying round but the SAFF U-20 champion squad are dreaming high to get out of the qualifying stage of the upcoming AFC U-20 Women’s Asia Cup at home.

The 18-year-old, who previously terminated his contract with Brazilian Serie B club Cruzeiro, had been training with Barcelona's youth team on a trial basis since January

Abahani forward Eleta Kingsley was included in Bangladesh's preliminary squad for the upcoming tri-nation tournament involving Brunei and Seychelles slated to kick off later this month in Sylhet.

The Catalans face Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu on Thursday in the first leg, without injured trio Pedri, Ousmane Dembele and Robert Lewandowski

Liverpool climbed into sixth spot in the table on 39 points, ahead of Fulham on goal difference and with a game in hand, but the home side were forced to work hard on a rainy night at Anfield

With 13 games left, the victory keeps Arsenal in pole position to win the title for the first time since Arsene Wenger's 'Invincibles' in 2003-04.

Argentine teenager Garnacho produced a superb 90th-minute effort to edge United ahead followed by a stoppage-time strike by Fred to add gloss to the scoreline.

The 22-year-old was key in helping Real win the LaLiga-Champions League double last season.

A wounded Barcelona face Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey semi-final first leg on Thursday hunting for a Clasico win to make coach Xavi Hernandez’s gamble at a critical moment of the season pay off.

Javier Cabrera, Bangladesh national football team’s Spanish head coach, is all set to get boosted by the presence of two compatriot coaches for the Tri-Nations Cup, scheduled to get underway from March 20 to 28 in Sylhet during FIFA’s March window.

Just Fontaine, the legendary France striker who died on Wednesday at the age of 89, will forever be remembered for scoring 13 goals at the 1958 World Cup, a remarkable feat that seems unlikely ever to be matched.

Mourinho, who was given his marching orders by referee Marco Piccinini at the start of the second half for dissent, said on Tuesday his reaction was caused by his treatment from the fourth official

Fontaine achieved the record in the 1958 finals in Sweden where France reached the semi-finals for the first time in their history, losing to Pele's Brazil

The midfielder, a key player in Lionel Scaloni's team, stated it when talking about the coach's virtues but made it clear that he did not say it with the intention of getting into controversy: " I don't want anyone to get angry because Argentina has an extremely important and rich history."

Guardiola saluted the impact of England forward Foden, who is starting to recapture his peak form after an inconsistent season

Pogba played for the first time since returning to Juventus last summer when he came on as a 68th-minute substitute against Torino.