Spain and Portugal were held to draws on Friday night that hurt their chances of qualifying automatically for next year's World Cup, while England routed San Marino 8-0 for their biggest victory margin in 26 years. ...
02:03 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Spain conceded a late goal at home against Finland, conceding top spot to France in their World Cup qualifying group. ...
06:29 AM, Mar 23, 2013
World champions Spain host Finland, Netherlands face Estonia, Germany play Kazakhstan and England will take on San Marino. ...
09:31 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Xavi is a major doubt for World Cup Group I qualifier after he missed Tuesday's training session due to a niggling hamstring injury. ...
08:45 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The 34-year-old Spain centre back had arthroscopic surgery at a clinic in the Catalan capital, Barca. ...
06:31 AM, Mar 16, 2013
World and European champion Spain remain atop the FIFA rankings, while India made a big move to jump from 167 to 143. ...
03:17 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Vicente del Bosque, one of the most successful managers in the history of football, has been welcomed into the Laureus family as a Laureus Ambassador. ...
02:58 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Jalabert, who won the Tour of Spain in 1995 and was world time trial champion in 1997, was on his bike when he was hit by a car. ...
11:23 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Nadal said he loves the tournament he won in 2007 and 2009 but has to think about protecting his knees and staying healthy for the European clay-court season, which ends at the French Open. ...
06:35 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Nadal beat Schwartzman of Argentina 6-2, 6-2. He is seeded No. 2 in the clay court tournament behind fellow Spaniard David Ferrer. ...
10:27 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Sweden's IKEA stopped nearly all sales of meatballs at its furniture store cafeterias across Europe after tests in the Czech Republic on Monday showed some contained horsemeat. ...
06:21 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Barcelona will get a chance to return to winning ways when erratic Sevilla visit the Nou Camp in La Liga on Saturday. ...
03:53 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Nestle, the world's biggest food company, has removed beef pasta meals from sale in Italy and Spain after finding traces of horse DNA. The discovery of horsemeat in products labelled as beef has spread across Europe since January, prompting product withdrawals, consumer anger and government investigations into the continent's complex food-processing chains. ...
12:25 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Simone Bolelli of Italy reached his first ATP semifinals since 2008 when he defeated Albert Montanes of Spain 6-4, 6-4. ...
11:50 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The euro dropped to a three-week low against the dollar and fell sharply versus the yen on Thursday after data painted a bleak picture of the euro zone economy, raising speculation the European Central Bank will cut interest rates. ...
08:31 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Cesar Azpilicueta, 23, Isco, 20, and Mario Suarez, 25, all stepped up in Doha and showed that the transition was progressing smoothly. ...
04:46 PM, Feb 07, 2013
"Here the illness is not admitted to so you cannot cure the patient," the LFP's Javier Tebas said after European police claimed there were around 700 matches fixed worldwide in the last few years. ...
04:56 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Spain's opposition Socialist Party called for the resignation of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy over a corruption scandal on Sunday as a poll showed the lowest support on record for his centre-right People's Party (PP). Media reports over the past two weeks alleged at least a dozen senior PP officials, including Rajoy, received payments from a slush fund operated by its former treasurer. ...
10:50 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Spain fought off Davis Cup elimination by winning the doubles competition against Canada 4-6, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 on the hard courts of the University of British Columbia campus. ...
03:27 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Riot police clashed with protesters in Madrid and impromptu demonstrations broke out in several other Spanish cities following the prime minister's televised denial that he had accepted under-the-table payments. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy promised to publicly disclose the amount of funds in all his personal bank accounts, denying recent media reports that allege he and members of his governing conservative Popular Party accepted or made under-the-table payments. ...
11:45 AM, Feb 03, 2013
