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ITALYINTER MILAN NEWS
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Ajax, AC Milan and Juventus midfielder Edgar Davids signed a pay-as-you-play deal with English Championship (second division) club Crystal Palace on Friday after being without a club for two years.
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Dirk Kuyt's agent claims his client is pondering a reunion with Rafael Benitez at Inter Milan.
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Dirk Kuyt's agent claims his client is pondering a reunion with Rafael Benitez at Inter Milan.
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Arsenal's promising young midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong will miss most of the season after suffering a knee ligament injury.Frimpong, 18, tore ligaments while training with Arsenal reserves in Dublin, where the understudies are taking part in a friendly tournament.The Ghana-born teenager, who moved to London when he was nine, had started in central midfield for Arsenal's recent friendlies against AC Milan, Celtic and Legia Warsaw and Gunners boss Arsene Wenger was confident he would make his competitive debut this season.
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MILAN, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Brazil's JBS , the world's largest beef producer, is ready to exit its joint venture with Italy's Cremonini as it seeks to end a dispute over the management of the jointly owned company.
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Roy Hodgson would rather see Javier Mascherano run down the final two years of his Liverpool contract than sell him for a cut-price fee.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Ghana international Kevin-Prince Boateng joined Genoa from Championship (second division) club Portsmouth on Wednesday before immediately signing for AC Milan on loan.
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Passengers bound for Milan on an overnight train from Barcelona had a surprise when they woke up the following day.
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Passengers bound for the northern Italian city of Milan from Barcelona had a surprise when they woke up the following day.
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It seemed appropriate that on an afternoon when one highly controversial striker should be leaving Eastlands that another arrived. When he signed for Manchester City, Craig Bellamy joked that he would be calling his autobiography "Google Me" because he was tired of being confronted by incidents in his past whenever he was interviewed. However, Bellamy and his posse never stood in the centre of Manchester's Exchange Square firing air pistols as Mario Balotelli and chums did in Milan's Piazza della Repubblica.
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Pre-season games in Beijing, London, Milan, Paris, Barcelona, Guangzhou and Mexico City highlight an NBA exhibition slate for October confirmed Tuesday by the league.The NBA announced last week that it would play regular-season games in Europe for the first time when Toronto and New Jersey meet March 4-5 in London, which had hosted several prior pre-season games.NBA's pre-season play tips off October 3 in Italy when the New York Knicks visit Milan to face Armani Jeans Milano, the former club of Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni and Knicks standout forward Danillo Gallinari.
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On a day when Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson slammed the 'kamikaze' spending of rival Premier League clubs, Manchester City made it clear they were not finished in the transfer market.Tuesday saw new City striker Mario Balotelli officially presented by the club after his move from Inter Milan.And City manager Roberto Mancini said the proposed 28 million pounds transfer of James Milner from Aston Villa was nearing completion.Stephen Ireland is set to go the other way while City striker Craig Bellamy has stepped down a division to join Cardiff on loan.
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Mario Balotelli insisted Manchester City were always top of his wish list when he was about to leave Inter Milan.
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European champions Inter Milan dominate UEFA's shortlist for the Club Footballer of the Year award, with five players up for the gong.
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Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard insists Roy Hodgson's arrival as manager has already transformed the atmosphere at Anfield.Gerrard's side ended last season in disarray as Rafael Benitez's reign petered out with the team suffering their worst Premier League finish for over a decade.The Reds' morale was at rock-bottom as players lost faith with Benitez, who left Liverpool to take charge at Inter Milan during the close-season.But England star Gerrard believes Hodgson has erased all the gloom since his move to Merseyside from Fulham.
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MILAN/LONDON (Reuters) - French investment bank Natixis could emerge from a crowd of potential bidders as the best fit for Pioneer as Italy's UniCredit SpA seeks a partner to transform its mid-tier asset manager.
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Public figures including Nobel laureates and Hollywood stars published a letter of support Monday for Iranian mother-of-two Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani who is facing execution for adultery."Urgent intervention is necessary to prevent an execution that observers believe is imminent," said a text published in France's Liberation newspaper, signed by dignitaries including Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka and Jody Williams.Other names included Czech author Milan Kundera, pop star and anti-poverty campaigner Bob Geldof and actresses Juliette Binoche and Mia Farrow.
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The recent death of a radical anti-communist who shot his way out of communist Czechoslovakia to the West in 1953 has reopened a passionate debate among Czechs about their Cold War past.Was Milan Paumer hero or murderer?Twenty years after the fall of communism, the story of his resistance group -- which killed six people as it broke through the Iron Curtain to freedom -- still divides this nation of 10.5 million like no other issue.Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas made his stand clear at Paumer's funeral on August 4.
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MILAN (Reuters) - MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi will switch to Ducati from Yamaha for next season, delighting millions of his bike-mad compatriots who have yearned to see the sporting great finally race for the Italian team.
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Liverpool new boy Milan Jovanovic has no regrets over turning down the chance to join Real Madrid.
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