The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has agreed on principle to appoint Belgian Tom Saintfiet as national team's coach and Australian Paul Smalley as technical director of football.

As the Bangladesh Football Federation looks set to sign up Belgian coach Tom Saintfiet for the Asian Cup qualifying play-offs, top coaches in domestic circuit believe that the new coach will have very few options at his disposal.

Spain can no longer match the standards that won back-to-back European Championship titles in 2008 and 2012, Gerard Pique admitted after his side crashed out of Euro 2016 to Italy.

Iceland pulled off one of the biggest shocks in European Championship history when they stunned England 2-1 in their last-16 clash on Monday leading losing manager Roy Hodgson to resign.

Giorgio Chiellini and Graziano Pelle scored the goals as Italy exacted revenge for their Euro 2012 final hammering by dumping Spain out of Euro 2016 with a deserved 2-0 last 16 win in Paris on Monday.

Germany defender Jerome Boateng, who scored in their win over Slovakia on Sunday, said his calf injury was improving and he was confident of being fit for the quarter-final with holders Spain or Italy.

The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) flew in another high-profile individual for a discussion over the post of technical director at the game's governing body.

Abahani lift the Walton Federation Cup with a 1-0 win over Arambagh KS in the final at the Bangabandhu National Stadium today.

England manager Roy Hodgson dismisses "salacious" suggestions of a possible rift between forwards Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy and says the team are fully focussed on the Euro 2016 round of 16 match against Iceland later on Monday.

Carlos Bacca scores the only goal as Colombia defeat the United States 1-0 to clinch third place in the Copa America Centenario

A close-range header from Portugal substitute Ricardo Quaresma secured a 1-0 win over Croatia after the game burst into life late in extra time on Saturday and set up a Euro 2016 quarter-final against Poland next week.

The world's most expensive player, Gareth Bale of Wales, will face an ageing goalkeeper looking for a club in Saturday's intriguing all-British showdown against fellow debutants Northern Ireland for a place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2016.

Sales of Iceland's home shirt have risen by an astronomical 1800 per cent on the back of their remarkable Euro 2016 campaign.

The stakeholders of the country's football have urged for a combined effort to uplift the standard of the game as they believe the new format of the Bangladesh Premier League and the introduction of franchise-based Bangladesh Super League could prove to be a new beginning for football.

Having squeezed into the Euro 2016 knockout stages after three contrasting group stage draws, Portugal are ready to move up a gear when they face Croatia in their mouth-watering last-16 clash in Lens on Saturday, coach Fernando Santos says.

Lionel Messi blasts the Argentina Football Association, calling it a "disaster," after the national team's plane from Houston was delayed on Thursday.

Angel Di Maria looks set to miss out on the Copa America Centenario final against Chile after the Argentina star suffered a recurrence of his adductor injury.

Ranjit Kumar Bishwas, the former senior secretary for Cultural Affairs and a prominent sports writer, passed away in Chittagong yesterday. He was 60.

Argentina football legend Diego Maradona tells his national team not to bother coming back home if they don't win the Copa America Centenario on Sunday.

England striker and Arsenal target Jamie Vardy has agreed a new deal with Premier League champions Leicester.