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Brazil's Olympic soccer squad player Ronaldinho arrives at Singapore yesterday for a friendly next weekend as part of the team's warm-up for Beijing 2008.

IF ALL goes well, Singapore could host continental teams such as Porto or AC Milan in a quadrangular next year.

Henrique Calisto's decision to name three new forwarders on the Vietnamese side has been seen as his way of strengthening the team's attacking power for the friendly clash against Brazil's Olympic squad in next ...

Ronaldinho will wear the number 80 shirt at AC Milan, the club have confirmed. The Brazil playmaker, who joined the Rossoneri from Barcelona on a three-year contract last week, had hoped to wear the number 10 ...

ROMAN ABRAMOVICH made a personal plea to AC Milan in a bid to take Kaka to Chelsea.

Manchester City are facing a major striker crisis ahead of their Barclays Premier League opener with Aston Villa on August 17.

Brazilian forward ROBINHO has told Real Madrid he is desperate to join Phil Scolari at Chelsea.

GUANGZHOU: Chelsea arrive in China today to kick-off their pre-season Asian tour with Luiz Felipe Scolari keen to assess his squad and the players fighting to impress him.

SINGAPORE: Brazil's star-studded football team will be in Singapore for a friendly match against Singapore's national team.

SINGAPORE: No Asian team has won the football gold medal since the sport was included in the Olympics 100 years ago, and barring an upset they will struggle to breakthrough in Beijing.

Arsene Wenger must decide whether to step up his interest in Aston Villa's unsettled England international Gareth Barry following the departure of long-serving midfielder Gilberto Silva.

HAMBURG, July 19: Football clubs have received a stern warning from the ruling body FIFA and the International Olympic Committee that they must release players for the Beijing Games.

The world player of the year is said to view a move to Chelsea as 'attractive'. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP Chelsea appear set to sign the Milan playmaker Kaka for a world-record 100m after discussions took ...

Brazil forward Ronaldinho said he was mostly looking forward to teaming up again with compatriot Kaka as he was unveiled as an AC Milan player.

The AC Milan midfielder cleaned up in 2007, winning both the FIFA World Player of the Year award and the European Golden Ball, following a year in which he guided the San Siro side to the Champions League, ...

Arsenal have confirmed the departure of midfielder Gilberto Silva to Greek side Panathinaikos.

The Brazilian team will play a friendly against Vietnam next month before going to Beijing in quest of its first Olympic football gold medal.

Australia's two leading world title contenders Joel Parkinson and Bede Durbidge have set up a quarter-final showdown at the Billabong Pro as ratings leader Kelly Slater continued his awesome 2008 season.

Mark Hughes has revealed his disappointment but claims Manchester City could not have done any more to sign Ronaldinho after he opted to join AC Milan.

Brazil captain Gilberto Silva received a rousing welcome from around 1,500 Panathinaikos fans at Athens Eleftherios Venizelos airport after he arrived in Greece on Wednesday evening.