RIO DE JANEIRO, March 7 (NsNewsWire) — Former Arsenal great Gilberto Silva said Monday that it is time for the club to part ways with long-time manager Arsene Wenger. Calls for Wenger to step down have grown louder after Arsenal’s 3-1 loss to Liverpool on Saturday, a result that left the Gunners fifth in the […]

BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) — China is looking for a foreign coach for its men’s volleyball team, said Li Quanqiang, director of the volleyball department of China’s General Administration of Sport, here on Monday. Li expressed his hopes for both the women’s and men’s volleyball teams (as well as China’s beach volleyball teams) to qualify […]

SYDNEY, March 6 (Xinhua) — Round 22 of Australia’s A-League saw Sydney FC extend their lead at the top of the table to 11 points, with a 1-0 win over second-placed Melbourne Victory. Anticipated to be a high scoring affair, the game turned out to be a gritty match with the Victory’s front three unable […]

SAO PAULO, March 6 (NsNewsWire) — The Brazil Open men’s final was postponed on Sunday after heavy rain interrupted the clash between Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas and Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain. Play was due to resume at midday local time on Monday with Ramos-Vinolas leading the dual defending champion 7-6 (3), 3-3, reports Xinhua. Ramos-Vinolas took […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) — China’s leading sports marketing company China Sports Media (CSM) has been given broadcasting rights by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the remainder of the 2017-2020 commercial cycle, the Asian football governing body announced on Tuesday. The contract signed with CSM Chairman Li Yidong allows CSM to cover the […]

CANBERRA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — The coach of Australia’s national football team, known as the Socceroos, is a firm target for at least one cashed-up Chinese Super League (CSL) club, local media reported on Monday. Ange Postecoglou has coached the Socceroos since 2013 and led Australia to a breakthrough Asian Cup win in 2015, but […]

BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — China should rely on its own efforts and intelligence to find the appropriat way of developing football instead of just buying oversea clubs, said a spokesman of China’s General Administration of Sports on Monday. “China’s football development should depend on our own efforts and intelligence, the road of simply relying […]

BERLIN, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Robert Lewandowski’s hat rick smoothed the way for Bayern to hammer Hamburg 8-0, and Leipzig reaped their second consecutive win after beating Cologne 3-1 in the 22nd round of Bundesliga on Saturday. Front-runners Bayern showed no mercy with Hamburg as the German giants whitewashed the visitors with three first- and […]

JAKARTA, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — Indonesia’s football association will include players, who are Indonesian decent and playing for teams overseas, for its national U-19 squad, a coach said here on Thursday. Coach Indra Safri said that there were 12 soccer players who are categorized as Indonesian descent playing for teams in Europe and Asia, including […]