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  Messi hat trick breaks scoring record in Spain

  November 23, 2014 6:32 IST

  Barcelona, Spain: Lionel Messi scored a hat trick to emphatically break the Spanish league's all-time scoring mark in Barcelona's 5-1 win over Sevilla on Saturday.Messi, already Barcelona's all-time scorer, surpassed Athletic Bilbao great Telmo Zarra's

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  Messi breaks Spanish league record with 253 goals

  November 23, 2014 6:26 IST

  Barcelona, Spain: Lionel Messi was raised aloft by his Barcelona teammates after becoming the Spanish league's all-time leading scorer in style on Saturday.Messi topped the 251-goal mark, netting his first hat trick of the season

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  Sissoko gives Newcastle 5th league win in a row

  November 22, 2014 23:43 IST

  Newcastle, England: Moussa Sissoko fired Newcastle to a fifth straight Premier League victory on Saturday with the 1-0 win sending Queens Park Rangers to the bottom of the table.Sissoko, captaining the side in the absence

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  Schweinsteiger helps Bayern win 4-0 in comeback

  November 22, 2014 23:10 IST

  Berlin: Bastian Schweinsteiger marked his injury comeback by setting up Bayern Munich's final goal as the defending champions stretched their Bundesliga lead with a 4-0 win over Hoffenheim on Saturday.Mario Goetze opened the scoring with

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  Toure grabs winner for Man City vs Swansea

  November 22, 2014 23:07 IST

  Manchester, England: Yaya Toure responded to Manuel Pellegrini's rallying call as he fired champions Manchester City to a 2-1 Premier League win over Swansea on Saturday.The City midfielder, below par for much of the season

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  Ings double gives Burnley 2-1 win at Stoke

  November 22, 2014 23:03 IST

  Stoke, England: Burnley climbed off the bottom of the Premier League by beating Stoke 2-1 thanks to two first-half goals in the space of two minutes from striker Danny Ings on Saturday.Jonathan Walters' diving header

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  Atletico beats Malaga 3-1 to stay in hunt in Spain

  November 22, 2014 23:00 IST

  Barcelona, Spain: Tiago Cardoso scored and set up another goal as Atletico Madrid ended 10-man Malaga's winning streak with a 3-1 victory to provisionally go second in the Spanish league on Saturday.Tiago's header from a

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  Leicester draws 0-0 with Sunderland in EPL

  November 22, 2014 22:56 IST

  Leicester, England: Leicester's goalless streak continued as it held Sunderland to a 0-0 draw in the Premier League on Saturday.The Foxes extended their goal drought to 500 minutes, having failed to score in their last

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  Chelsea beats West Brom 2-0 in Premier League

  November 22, 2014 22:52 IST

  London: Chelsea kept up its title charge in the Premier League by easily beating 10-man West Bromwich Albion 2-0 on Saturday, with Diego Costa scoring his league-leading 11th goal of the season.Costa downed a cross

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  ISL: FC Goa down FC Pune City 2-1

  November 23, 2014 9:46 IST

  Margao: FC Goa scored a goal in each half to down a fighting FC Pune City to move to the fourth place in the Indian Super League yesterday.Goa took the lead early in the fifth

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  ISL: ATK writes to AIFF on assistant referee's ruled out goal

  November 22, 2014 21:23 IST

  Kolkata: Peeved at the assistant referee's ruling out a stoppage time goal, Atletico de Kolkata have written to the AIFF with video evidence.“We have submitted the copy of the video footage which leaves no doubt

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  ISL: Mumbai City FC gears up for Chennaiyin FC challenge

  November 23, 2014 15:58 IST

  Mumbai: After three consecutive goal-less draws, Mumbai City FC face a tough task in their search for a win as they take on table-toppers Chennaiyin FC in a Hero Indian Super League match here Sunday.The

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  Diego Costa is fit: Mourinho

  November 22, 2014 15:50 IST

  London: Jose Mourinho has declared Diego Costa finally free of the hamstring injury that has dogged his Chelsea career but admitted to concerns about how he would cope with their “incredible marathon” of games for

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  PSG edges Metz 3-2 to take French league lead

  November 22, 2014 10:17 IST

  Metz, France: Ezequiel Lavezzi fired Paris Saint-Germain to the top of the French league on Friday by scoring the winner in the 3-2 victory over promoted Metz.    The Argentina forward slid home a rebound in

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  Aduriz leads Bilbao to 3-1 win over Espanyol

  November 22, 2014 10:14 IST

  Billbao, Spain: Athletic Bilbao striker Aritz Aduriz scored one goal and set up another in a 3-1 win over Espanyol at San Mames Stadium on Friday.   Bilbao's repeated attacks down the right side led to

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  FIFA official: WCup boycott would be 'nonsense'

  November 22, 2014 10:09 IST

  Sochi, Russia: FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said Friday a boycott of the 2018 World Cup in Russia would be "nonsense."   Some European politicians have suggested that European countries could boycott the World Cup over

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  India thrash Nepal 6-0 to clinch third SAFF Women's Championship on the trot

  November 21, 2014 21:54 IST

  Islamabad: Indian women's football team routed Nepal 6-0 in the summit clash of the 3rd SAFF Championship to notch up their third title on the trot and maintain their supremacy in the regional tournament here

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  ISL: Atletico de Kolkata denied a point as Blasters win 2-1

  November 21, 2014 21:37 IST

  Kochi: Atletico de Kolkata were robbed a point due to poor refereeing as regular captain Luis Garcia's injury time equaliser was disallowed by assistant referee as hosts Kerala Blasters recorded a 2-1 win in a

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  ISL: FC Goa hope for home comfort ahead of FC Pune City clash

  November 21, 2014 18:57 IST

  Margao: Back home after a fairly successful brief spell away, a resurgent FC Goa will be eager to earn three points as they prepare to lock horns with FC Pune City in a Hero Indian

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  Watch Neymar's new model girlfriend Soraja Vucelic in bikini

  November 21, 2014 12:44 IST

  And it's no wonder Barcelona football star Neymar seems smitten with his new girlfriend Soraja Vucelic after she was spotted showing off her amazing bikini body on Puro Beach in Tivat, Montenegro. They met last summer

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  FIFA to review World Cup corruption report

  November 21, 2014 10:55 IST

  Geneva: FIFA will further review the 2018 and 2022 World Cup corruption investigation, putting the status of hosts Russia and Qatar back in question.The head of FIFA's auditing committee will examine the full 430-page confidential

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  Roma defender Castan to undergo neurosurgery

  November 21, 2014 8:17 IST

  Rome: Roma defender Leandro Castan will undergo neurosurgery next month because of a malformation in the brain.Castan has been out of action since a September victory at Empoli, where he was substituted at halftime suffering

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  Pele's son released from jail in Brazil

  November 20, 2014 20:26 IST

  Sao Paulo: The 44-year-old son of soccer great Pele has been released from jail and will remain free while he appeals a conviction in a money laundering case that involved a drug gang.Edson Cholbi do

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  Buffon and Chiellini sign new deals at Juventus

  November 20, 2014 19:52 IST

  Turin, Italy: Gianluigi Buffon and Giorgio Chiellini have extended their contracts with Juventus, keeping them at the Serie A club through 2017 and 2018, respectively.Buffon, who is the captain of Juventus and the Italian national

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  India's new football league making a big splash

  November 20, 2014 18:17 IST

  New Delhi: When the Indian Super League kicked off, it certainly seemed to add the zing that football needed in a country which FIFA chief Sepp Blatter once called "a sleeping giant" of the game.But

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  ISL: Atletico face stern challenge from Blasters

  November 21, 2014 18:41 IST

  Kochi: When they clashed in the first leg, it was billed as a football contest between cricket titans Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly. But as Atletico de Kolkata take on Kerala Blasters FC in the

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  Young ISL performers can graduate to India team: Chhetri

  November 20, 2014 12:02 IST

  New Delhi: Impressed with the performance of some of the youngsters playing in the ongoing Indian Super League, India captain Sunil Chhetri yesterday said that they deserved to be considered for national team selection.The likes

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  Portugal beats Argentina 1-0 with injury-time goal

  November 20, 2014 10:57 IST

  Manchester, England: The highly anticipated duel between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo fell flat as the world's two best players lasted just 45 minutes of Portugal's last-gasp 1-0 win over Argentina in an international friendly