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Former football coach Barry Bennell faces eight new charges of sex assault against a boy under the age of 14

British former football coach Barry Bennell was charged on Tuesday with eight historical offences of sexual assault against a boy under the age of 14.

Sport

Chapecoense: A fairytale season turned into everyone's worst nightmare

Chapecoense were founded in 1973 in the town of Chapeco in southern of Brazil – the result of a merger between two amateur teams.

Colombia

Colombia plane crash: Fans gather to mourn Chapecoense footballers

Hundreds of fans have gathered at Chapecoense’s stadium, the Condá Arena in the city of Chapecó, to mourn the players and staff killed in a plane crash in…

Sport

Bolivian FA chief arrested on corruption charges

The President of the Bolivian Football Association was arrested this week on corruption charges.

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Colombia

At least 71 killed as plane carrying Brazilian football club crashes in Colombia

A chartered plane carrying Brazilian football team Chapecoense to the Copa Sudamericana final crashed in the Colombian mountains, killing at least 71 of the 77 people on…

Colombia

At least 6 survive plane crash over Colombia, including 3 Chapecoense footballers

At least six people survive, but 75 die, in a plane crash over Colombia.

Sport

Chelsea continue fine run under Conte with derby win over Spurs

Chelsea thrilled their home fans at the Stamford Bridge over the weekend by condeming derby rivals Tottenham to a first Premier League defeat of the season.

United Kingdom

Fears of paedophilia cover up as English Football Association launches sex abuse inquiry

The English Football Association has launched an independent internal inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse by coaching staff against youth players, amid fears of a wide scale cover…

Sport

Eto'o could face 10-year prison sentence

Spanish prosecutors are seeking a prison term of more than 10 years for former Chelsea striker Samuel Eto’o for alleged tax crimes committed when he played for…

Sport

Steven Gerrard announces retirement

Former Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard announced his retirement on Thursday a week after confirming he would not be returning to play for Major League Soccer side LA…

Sport

Champions League round-up: Arsenal held to draw by PSG as Barcelona eliminate Celtic

Arsenal and Paris Saint Germain drew 2-2 at the Emirates on Wednesday in their penultimate Group A encounter of the Champions League.

Sport

Spanish court calls for Neymar to serve two years in prison

Spain’s public prosecutor has called for Barcelona soccer player Neymar to be sent to prison for two years for his part in a corruption case over his transfer from Brazilian club Santos to the Liga ch

Sport

Champions League round-up: Real Madrid and Leicester City book last 16 tickets

Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema both scored to hand Real Madrid a 2-1 victory over Sporting in their penultimate Group F match of the Champions league.

Sport

PSG defender Aurier denied entry to UK

Paris St Germain defender Serge Aurier has been prevented from entering the UK by authorities and will therefore miss Wednesday nights Champions League match at…

Sport

Bruce Arena replaces Klinsmann as US head coach

Bruce Arena has been appointed head coach of the US national football team for a second time in his career.

Sport

Klinsmann sacked as US coach

Juergen Klinsmann has been sacked as coach of the US national football team.

Sweden

Guess who's the Swedish player of the year...

That's right it's Zlatan Ibrahimovic!

Sport

Dortmund dish up first defeat for Bayern as Real Madrid win final derby at Vicente Calderon

Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid finally put their derby ghosts to bed whey they thrashed city rivals Atletico 3-0 at the Vicente Calderon.

Albania

Kosovo says it's foiled ISIL attack against Israeli football team

Police in Kosovo say they have arrested 19 people on suspicion of having links with ISIL.

Sport

Noway trawls for a new coach after Per-Mathias Hogmo quits

Norway's coach quits