Football

All eyes will be on hosts France when they get the ball rolling against Romania in the Stade de France

France launched an app to alert users to attacks on Wednesday, two days before the Euro 2016 soccer championship gets underway under a state of emergency imposed after militant Islamists struck Paris in November.

"If he is so important in Madrid, just imagine he's the same if not more so with Portugal," coach Fernando Santos told Spanish sports daily Marca.

On the back of their 1998 World Cup triumph, France won the European Championship for the second time in 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands.

France and Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud has fuelled speculation that Jamie Vardy is on his way to the Gunners by saying he has heard the Leicester City striker is keen to move.

Of the fine imposed on Barcelona, 50,000 euros will be suspended if there is no repeat offence in the next two years.

Ron-Robert Zieler made 36 appearances for Hannover, who were relegated from the Bundesliga, and was previously part of Germany's 2014 World Cup-winning squad.

The 31-year-old forward, who scored the decisive penalty as Real Madrid won their 11th European Cup last weekend will lead the 23-man Portugal side into Euro 2016 which is held in France.

Hooliganism is making a comeback, and the timing could be bad with four high-risk matches in the first week of the European Championship in a country where the police force is already under huge strain.

Argentinian-born striker Messi and his father Jorge Horacio Messi, who have both denied the allegations, were due to appear in the Barcelona court on Thursday, according to a judicial document.

The 35-year-old striker did not play in the 1-1 draw against Netherlands in Dublin on Friday and has been ruled out of manager Martin O'Neill's squad for Tuesday's match against Belarus in Cork.

Sergio Busquets, who made his debut for Barcelona in 2008, has played 384 official matches with the first team, scoring 12 goals.

Jose Mourinho was officially confirmed as Manchester United's new manager on Friday, and here are the five of the most memorable quotes of his illustrious career

The two Spanish football clubs met in the 2014 final of the tournament in Lisbon, when the Real claimed the title 4-1

Mourinho will take over as manager of Manchester United from the 2016/17 season, signing a three-year contract with an option to stay at the club until at least 2020.

"I have met with two Turkish clubs, one English club and another one in France but there is no offer and we have nothing to evaluate," says Alves's agent Dinorah Santa Ana da Silva.