Real Madrid has asked FIFA president Sepp Blatter to apologize for making fun of Cristiano Ronaldo.   Blatter recently told an audience at Oxford University that Ronaldo "is like a...

Reduced to backup in the Spanish league, Iker Casillas will be Real Madrid's starting goalkeeper in the Copa del Rey plus the Champions League.   Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti tells...

Here are five things to know about this week's Italian league games:   ___   NINE AND COUNTING   With a record nine straight wins to start the Serie A season, Roma is...

Here are five things to know about this week's Spanish league matches:   ___   SO FAR, SO GOOD   Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino has, modestly, suggested he has not...

Lionel Messi, Franck Ribery, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Neymar are among 23 candidates on the short list for the Ballon d'Or announced by FIFA on Tuesday.   Ribery, who won...

The agency marketing Champions League commercial rights says clubs will be "happy" with projected prize money increases through 2018.   Switzerland-based TEAM Marketing is...

Franck Ribery has settled down in the Bavarian capital so well that he looks right at home even in the ridiculous lederhosen he and his Bayern Munich teammates don for the annual junket at the...

Hoffenheim lost its bid for a replay of a Bundesliga match won by Bayer Leverkusen with a goal that shouldn't have been allowed.   Leverkusen's Stefan Kiessling was awarded the goal...

UEFA President Michel Platini wants the World Cup expanded from 32 to 40 teams.   The Frenchman was responding to FIFA President Sepp Blatter's call for Asian and African teams to be...

Promising teenager Oliver Torres scored 13 seconds into his first start for Atletico Madrid on Sunday before veteran David Villa added a brace in its 5-0 rout of Real Betis, keeping the team pegged...