The European football championships in 2016 will be expanded from 16 teams to 24, FIFA’s European executive committee member Franz Beckenbauer said here Thursday.
UEFA sources said that the proposed expansion would be voted on by the body’s 13-man executive committee on Friday.
The 16-team format for the Euro finals has been in place since 1996.
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Arsene Wenger has gradually been edging towards creating his very own Arsenal production line of a whole team of players from the Arsenal academy going on to form the bulk of his first-team squad. With each year that passes, Wenger gets closer to that reality with one or two players becoming key first-team players.
The [...]
An inspired substitution from coach Jose Mourinho allowed Inter Milan to stay top of the Serie A table with a 1-0 victory over Lecce at the San Siro on Wednesday.
The champions had dominated from start to finish but Lecce looked like they would frustrate them right to the end until substitute Julio Cruz fired [...]
Rafael Van der Vaart endeared himself to the Real Madrid fans with a hat-trick as the champions crushed Sporting Gijon 7-1 on Wednesday to go second in the table.
Dutch midfielder Van der Vaart, a 13 million-euro summer signing from SV Hamburg, netted twice in the first half before wrapping up his treble on 47 [...]
Germany striker Miroslav Klose proved last week’s leg injury is behind him as defending German Cup holders Bayern Munich beat Nuremberg 2-0 in Wednesday night’s second round tie.
Klose, the top scorer at the 2006 World Cup, slammed home his shot on seven minutes to show he has recovered from the bruised knee he suffered [...]