Juventus have appointed Claudio Ranieri as their coach after parting company with Didier Deschamps last month following their promotion back to Serie A.
“When Juventus call, you don’t say ‘no’ and I didn’t. We want to get Juve back where they belong as quickly as possible, both in Italy and in Europe,” the new man [...]

Liverpool FC captain Steven Gerrard and his deputy Jamie Carragher have signed new four-year contracts fresh from their second UEFA Champions League final with the club.
Midfielder Gerrard, 27, and versatile 29-year-old defender Carragher both came through the youth ranks at Liverpool and were part of the team that won the UEFA Cup in 2001 as [...]

Substitute Diego headed a dramatic added-time equaliser to deny England a memorable victory as they ended a six-year exile from Wembley Stadium.
With David Beckham returning to the international fray the game looked to be following a storyteller’s script. Midway through the second half the England No7 swung a free-kick to the back post and Terry, [...]

Chelsea FC have made their second high-profile signing of the summer capturing forward Claudio Pizarro on a free transfer from FC Bayern München.
Having already acquired out-of-contract midfielder Steve Sidwell from Reading FC last month, José Mourinho has added to his striking options with the Peruvian international completing a medical and agreeing personal terms at Stamford [...]

Austria and Switzerland are preparing to start their countdown to UEFA EURO 2008 in earnest next Thursday exactly a year before the tournament kicks off.
Six of the host cities will mark the occasion by turning on their countdown clocks, oversized digital timepieces which will show exactly how long there is to go until the first [...]

June 2007 was expected to mark the end of David Beckham’s career in European football. But instead tonight he will line up for England in their first international at the new Wembley, recalled to the squad after a sequence of performances for Real Madrid CF that have helped take them to the brink of an [...]

Manchester United FC have announced the signing of England midfielder Owen Hargreaves from FC Bayern München, having revealed last night that FC Porto playmaker Anderson and Sporting Clube de Portugal winger Nani are also close to joining the Premier League champions.
Hargreaves, 26, will complete his long-speculated transfer to Old Trafford on 1 July. “Manchester United [...]

A goal in each half from Filippo Inzaghi ensured AC Milan avenged their defeat by Liverpool FC in Istanbul two years ago to claim the European Champion Clubs’ Cup for a seventh time here in Athens.
Inzaghi had been forced to sit out the 2005 final which Liverpool won on penalties after trailing 3-0 at half-time, [...]

When Carlo Ancelotti described Liverpool FC as “a Mediterranean type of team”, the reaction among some English headline writers was to assume the AC Milan coach was criticising his UEFA Champions League final opponents.
Yet in claiming Liverpool lacked “the DNA of the English”, Ancelotti was not making mischief but merely offering his appraisal of the [...]

A group of Liverpool FC supporters camped out in Syntagma square in central Athens had already decided on their hero. “Carraghercules” read one banner in praise of the defender who has played such a powerful role in guiding Liverpool to the verge of a sixth European Champion Clubs’ Cup triumph.
For Liverpool’s opponents in Wednesday’s UEFA [...]