MADRID (Reuters) - Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, star player for Spanish football club Barcelona, and his father Jorge have been charged with tax fraud by a Spanish judge, media reports said on Thursday. The judge accused the Argentine World Player of the Year and his father of defrauding the Spanish tax office of …

Italian Fabio Capello is expected to stay on in his job as boss of Russia's national side until at least the 2014 World Cup, Russian officials said, despite reportedly receiving an offer to join French big spenders Paris Saint-Germain.

The Spain Under-21s goalkeeper wants to see his international team-mate make the move to Old Trafford this summer, although he acknowledges that a transfer could be problematic

Seven people were hurt in a stampede Thursday as hundreds of fans rushed to see football superstar David Beckham at an event in China's commercial hub Shanghai, police and local media said.

The young defender, who recently joined the club from Mainz, is eagerly anticipating training under the former Barcelona coach and is keen to make the next step in his career

The former Manchester United, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain star was due to meet the university's football team, but his plans were curtailed by the drama

By Toby Davis LONDON (Reuters) - Serena Williams heads to Wimbledon to defend her title with seeds of doubt and defeatism already sown in the minds of her opponents. The psychological scars of playing the younger Williams sister run deep in the women's game and, now that the American has dusted off the red clay from her …

By Pritha Sarkar LONDON (Reuters) - There will be an unfamiliar whiff of British success in the air at Wimbledon this year when Andy Murray, and thousands of patriotic fans, will try to stop the party-pooping antics of champions Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal. Tennis's so called 'Big Three' have lorded over …

(Reuters) - Pakistan-born refugee Fawad Ahmed's Ashes dreams received a major boost on Thursday with the Australian senate passing legislation to fast-track citizenship in special cases. The legislation empowers the immigration minister to apply shorter residential requirements on certain citizenship seekers. "This is pleasing …

New Old Trafford boss David Moyes will take a look at the England international in pre-season training before deciding whether to loan him out next season

PRETORIA (Reuters) - Promising flyhalf Tom Heathcote returns to the Scotland side for their test against Italy at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday after concussion laid him low for a week. He is one of three changes named on Thursday by interim coach Scott Johnson for the last of three tests for the Scots on tour …

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia's state prosecutors have indicted Zdravko Mamic, the president of the country's top football club Dinamo Zagreb, for inciting racial hatred towards ethnic Serbs. In line with the law, the state prosecutors did not explicitly name Mamic but said that a 54-year-old Croatian was indicted for inciting …

PARIS (Reuters) - Flyhalf Remi Tales will make his first start for France in the third and final test against New Zealand in New Plymouth on Saturday, one of eight changes made by head coach Philipp Saint-Andre. Lock Alexandre Flanquart will also make his first international start after being named in the second row by …

The matches are slated to be rescheduled to the first two weeks of September, while the Malaysian Super League game between LionsXII and Johor Darul Takzim could be affected too

The Gunners have met the Belgium midfielder's release clause and the club's former midfielder is hopeful he will add the steel so sorely lacking since the Frenchman's departure

Marcello Lippi's Guangzhou Evergrande dodged the toughest teams when they were drawn against Qatar's Lekhwiya in the AFC quarter-finals on Thursday.

The Euro 2012 finalists recorded a hard-fought win over Japan to progress to the knockout stages, but the defender has admitted they had their fair share of luck

Ahead of the teams' Confederations Cup clash on Thursday, Goal takes a look at the big differences between the two nations - on and off the football field