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"I have played under Trevor Morgan during my stint at East Bengal and he is an exceptional coach. He knows how to keep the team together," Orji said.

"This is an important win because we were playing a strong rival and we achieved our objective of cutting their lead. I am very satisfied," Ancelotti said.

The deal end a torturous 10 months of negotiations, which finished with Lim purchasing 70 percent of the club's shares for a price reported to be 94 million euros.

Italian football will soon be dying if it does not overcome its deep-rooted structural problems, Juventus president Andrea Agnelli said on Friday.

After chastening losses in the Champions League, Juventus and Roma seek morale boosts at the expense of Palermo and Sampdoria in the Serie A this weekend.

The former Arsenal and Brazil left-back feels that he and other players in his team are ready for the challenge Kolkata will put up.

Balotelli was spotted by TV cameras indulging in an exchange of shirts with Madrid defender Pepe during half time.

Ronaldo's 70th Champions League goal and a double from Benzema guided Real Madrid to a 3-0 win over Liverpool as the reigning champions notched a third straight victory.

Mendilibar replaced Joaquin Caparros this season but failed to maintain the same level of play.

Goals from Neymar and Lionel Messi helped Barcelona to a 3-1 victory over Ajax as the Spanish giants recovered to winning ways in Europe.

Peter Biaksangzuala, a Mizoram footballer, has passed away after injuring his spinal cord while celebrating scoring a goal in the Mizoram Premier League.

Queens Park Rangers gifted Liverpool a 3-2 win in the Premier League after defenders Steven Caulker and Richard Dunne scored own goals at Loftus Road.

Mutu was axed by Chelsea in 2004 for testing positive for cocaine. He needed an Indian visa to join his new club at Pune.

Brazilian Andre Moritz scored a superb hat-trick as Mumbai City FC cruised to a astonishing 5-0 win over FC Pune City in the sixth match of the Indian Super League.

Messi needs just two goals to equal Telmo Zarra's all-time Spanish top-flight record of 251, set in the 1950s.

Sports fans in India surely want to see the standard of football rise in the country with ISL but certainly not at the cost of another sport taking a dip.