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UEFA calls for 12-year limit for FIFA president

Thursday, 24 January 2013, 18:14 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

    European football leaders want to limit the next FIFA president to 12 years in office — four years more than FIFA's top anti-corruption adviser...

Llorente to join Juventus at end of season

Thursday, 24 January 2013, 14:55 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Juventus has signed Athletic Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente to a four-year contract that will start at the end of the season.   The 27-year-old Llorente will join Juventus in June when his...

South Africa lifts itself from depths of despair

Thursday, 24 January 2013, 10:58 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

South Africa lifted itself from the depths of despair to group leader at the African Cup of Nations as first-timer Cape Verde scaled stunning new heights in a 1-1 draw with former champion...

Real Madrid, Barcelona top football's rich list

Thursday, 24 January 2013, 10:55 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Real Madrid has remained football's biggest money maker for the eighth straight year as many of Europe's leading football clubs shrugged off the economic hardship engulfing the continent and...

Bizarre red card overshadows Swansea's cup win

Thursday, 24 January 2013, 08:14 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Swansea's progress to the final of the League Cup was overshadowed by a bizarre sending-off of Chelsea star Eden Hazard on Wednesday following an off-the-pitch incident involving a ball...

Roma beat Inter 2-1 in 1st leg of cup semi

Thursday, 24 January 2013, 08:02 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Roma beat Inter Milan 2-1 in the first leg of the Italian Cup semifinals on Wednesday.   Alessandro Florenzi gave Roma the lead when he headed Ivan Piris' cross into the top left corner...

Jose Mourinho writes off Real Madrid's title hopes

Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 18:39 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

    Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has written off his team's chances of catching Spanish league leader Barcelona and has turned his attention to helping the club win the Champions...

Beckham's son has trial with Chelsea

Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 18:28 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

    David Beckham's teenage son just might be the next person in his family to play in the English Premier League.   Thirteen-year-old Brooklyn Beckham, the oldest of...

Lazio draw 1-1 at Juventus in 1st leg of Cup semi

Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 08:04 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Lazio needed a late equalizer to draw 1-1 at Juventus in the first leg of the Italian Cup semifinals on Tuesday, and extended its unbeaten streak to 16 matches.   In a match between two of...

4th tier Bradford beats Villa to reach cup final

Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 08:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Bradford produced one of the greatest upsets in English football on Wednesday, overcoming the Premier League millionaires of Aston Villa to become the first fourth-tier club to reach an English cup...

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