David Beckham will miss the Los Angeles Galaxy's last away game in the Major League Soccer season on October 18 against Houston due to a one-game suspension for earning his fifth yellow card.
Hamburg SV is the first soccer club in Europe to have a cemetery for its fans. They can be buried close to their team's home stadium in a coffin or they can have their ashes buried in a club urn.
Hamburg's Croatia international Mladen Petric scored a last-minute winner in a 2-1 victory at Energie Cottbus on Sunday to move the club three points clear at the top of the German league table.
Bayern Munich's 3-3 draw with lowly VfL Bochum is a catastrophe for the struggling defending Bundesliga champions, said former Germany star Matthias Sammer on Sunday.
AS Roma plunged further into crisis after suffering a 1-0 defeat at Siena on Sunday and having both their center-backs dismissed.
Veteran striker Raul Gonzalez scored twice but Real Madrid still lost ground in the Spanish title race after they were held at home 2-2 by Espanyol on Sunday.
World soccer's governing body FIFA has dropped its threat of sanctions against Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland after reaching an agreement with the country's government, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Monday.
Rafael Benitez said his Liverpool side's belief will be the key to their success this season as they slug it out for the English Premier League title.
Polish soccer officials reportedly struck a last-minute deal with the government Monday in a bid to avoid a suspension by FIFA from all competitions and a possible loss of the co-hosting rights to the 2012 European Championship.
Slovenia's coach Matjaz Kek on Monday called in two additional players for the upcoming 2010 World Cup Group Three qualifiers against Northern Ireland and Czech Republic.
Poland is likely to be stripped of the right to co-host Euro 2012 if it fails to reinstate the country's soccer association by 1000 GMT on Monday, a spokesman for European soccer's governing body said.
Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel might be out of action for weeks due to an injure in his knee in Sunday's 3-2 win over Manchester City.
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