Statue of Messi wrecked for 2nd time this year

Football superstar Argentian captain Lionel Messi's statue in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires has been knocked over by vandals for the second time in this year. The photographs posted on social media showed the sculpture, chopped off at its ankles, lying on the pavement. In January, the statue was cut at the waist before repaired and re-erected by the city government.

Keeper scores late header team wins 1st point of the season

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Benevento win their first-ever point of this season in Italian Serie A after goalkeeper Alberto Brignoli scored with an injury-time flying header off a free kick to give them 2-2 draw against AC Milan on Sunday.  the club are playing in their first ever season in the Italian top fight but has lost each of their previous 14 games, and were on their way for a 15th defeat with AC Milan leading in the 95th minute. "It's difficult to describe," said Brignoli. "I was thinking: 'It's 2-1, I went up there, closed my eyes and jumped. It would have been terrible to lose this, as we've lost so many at the last second that we really didn't deserve to. Today we got some of that luck back. We've shown that we can play against anyone and just need the incidents to go our way,"

Fergie time help Man City post 13th straight win

In their last match Manchester city was behind in start by 0-1 from west ham and came from behind and register a late win by 2-1 over west ham in their Premier League on Sunday. The victory was a 13th straight league win, to equalling the all time single season top fight record achieved by Arsenal in 2001-02 and Chelsea last season. Which maintained an eight-point lead over their derby rivals Manchester united. Pep said: "If we can take something about the Fergie time, it is welcome, a pleasure. I heard about the Fergie time. I was not here in the last games is we never give up. the opponent doesn't want to play. they just want to defend. I understand. I am not judging but it is difficult. Always they have 10 players behind the ball. Hopefully in the future opponents can want to play. today I learned a bit like a manager to tackle it different. We don't normally play with two strikers and two wingers but we did so it is a lesson."

Today's match prediction. .. ARSENAL vs MANCHESTER UNITED

Arsenal face Manchester United at their home. Pogba is back in form. Manchester United will win the game!

World Cup Draw: Ronaldo to face familiar foes as Portugal Lands Spain

Cristiano Ronaldo won't need to do much scouting ahead of Portugal's opener at next year's football World Cup in Russia as the reigning European champions landed in the same group as Spain. Friday's World Cup draw at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow just happened to fall on a national holiday in Portugal, December 1 marks when the Portuguese celebrate the restoration of independence from Spain in 1640. C.Ronaldo of course plays his club football for Real Madrid, so is bound to face several of his teammates on June 15, including central defender and Spain captain Sergio Ramos. It could be tense, between the pair. However, the Portuguese, who won Euro 2016 and 2010 World Cup titlist Spain, will be fully expected to advance from Group B, which also includes two teams specializing in clean sheets: Morocco and Iran. Earlier Friday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko denied that a state-sponsored doping program ever existed, despite last year's McLaren report - commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, finding that more than 1,000 Russian athletes over five years were involved in cover ups.

Russia Football World Cup 2018 Final draw

Final draw for World Cup 2018 is here as the host nation will be playing in group A followed by the Europe Cup winners Portugal and Spain in Group B. France will play in Group C, Argentina in Group D, Brazil in Group E, Germany in Group F, Belgium in Group G and Colombia is in Group H.

Qatar's Ras Abu Aboud World's first stadium that can be reassembled

Ras Abu Aboud Stadium is the seventh stadium design launched a head of Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. The supreme Committee for delivery and Legacy (SC), the organisation responsible for delivering the infrastructure required to host 2022 World Cup. The stadium will be world's first fully demountable football stadium to be used for the Qatar World Cup in which shipping containers will be used as one of the main building blocks and will have removable seats. Stadium will be capable of being reassembled or turned into multiple smaller venues. "Innovation has always been central to our plans for delivering a historic FIFA World Cup that leaves a legacy for Qatar and the world, and there is no better example of this than the design of Ras Abu Aboud Stadium," SC Secreatary General H.E.