ROME: Italian police said on Friday they seized a luxury villa in Sardinia allegedly used by Paris St Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi to bribe former FIFA official Jerome Valcke...
Italy’s financial police said they had searched and seized the luxury “Villa Bianca” in Porto Cervo valued at seven million euros ($8...
LONDON: Aston Villa fought back from 1-0 down with goals from Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph to beat favourites Liverpool 2-1 in a pulsating FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Sunday...
Defeat ended Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard’s dream of bringing his 17-year career at Anfield to a close with a cup winner’s medal on his 35th birthday and Villa will play Arsenal in the final on May 30...
LONDON: Holders Arsenal won the FA Cup for a record 12th time on Saturday, outclassing Aston Villa 4-0 at Wembley with stunning goals from Theo Walcott and Alexis Sanchez setting up their one-sided victory...
”Arsenal, who came from two goals down to beat Hull City 3-2 a year ago, were never in trouble against Villa and Walcott, who missed most of 2014 with a knee injury sustained in an FA Cup game, ended a frustrating season when put...
LONDON: Former Chelsea and England captain John Terry has joined Championship side Aston Villa on a one-year deal, the club confirmed on its website on Monday...
“I am delighted to join Aston Villa,” Terry told the Villa website...
LONDON: Aston Villa beat Crystal Palace 1-0 to win a Premier League match for the first time since August while a deflected late goal from Paul Dummett earned a 3-3 draw for Newcastle United against Manchester United on Tuesday...
Joleon Lescott’s second-half header, fumbled in by keeper Wayne Hennessey, handed Villa manager Remi Garde a first victory in charge, the bottom club’s first in the league at home this season, and ended a...
BIRMINGHAM: Alexandre Pato scored on his long-awaited Chelsea debut as Guus Hiddink's experimental line-up piled more misery on Premier League bottom club Aston Villa with a 4-0 victory on Saturday...
Interim manager Hiddink was without Diego Costa, Eden Hazard, Willian, Gary Cahill and John Terry, but they were not missed as his side romped to an emphatic win at an angry Villa Park...
LONDON: Leicester City staged a remarkable comeback from two goals down to beat Aston Villa 3-2 and go second in the Premier League table on Sunday, scoring three times in 17 minutes...
Villa seemed in control when Carles Gil’s curling shot after a lightning counter-attack put them 2-0 ahead just past the hour after youngster Jack Grealish’s first goal for his club had given them the halftime advantage...
LONDON: Aston Villa forgot their Premier League woes and moved into the fourth round of the FA Cup with an unconvincing 2-0 win over fourth-tier Wycombe Wanderers in their third round replay at Villa Park on Tuesday...
A 75th-minute header from Ciaran Clark and a last minute strike from Idrissa Gueye settled the tie as Villa, beaten finalists last season but currently bottom of the Premier League, won for only the fourth time this...
LONDON: Bottom club Aston Villa finally stopped the rot by holding Premier League leaders Manchester City to a 0-0 draw in new manager Remi Garde’s first match in charge on Sunday...
After seven consecutive league defeats, and one point from the last 30 on offer, had plunged Villa into crisis and cost Tim Sherwood his job, the former European champions produced a gritty display to frustrate City...
LONDON: Hapless bottom club Aston Villa avoided relegation from the Premier League by the skin of their teeth on Saturday despite a 2-1 loss at home to Bournemouth...
Goals from Steve Cook and Josh King gave Bournemouth victory at Villa Park, but Norwich City’s 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace kept Villa hanging by a mathematical thread...
The Villa Antinori was once owned by the family of silk merchant Francesco Del Giocondo, whose wife Lisa Gherardini is widely believed to have sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous portrait...
Located in the hills outside Florence, “the villa is priced at over 10 million euros ($11...
LONDON: Aston Villa's long-expected relegation from the Premier League was finally confirmed with a 1-0 loss away to Manchester United on Saturday as teenage rising star Marcus Rashford scored his seventh goal in 12 games...
Defeat left bottom-of-the-table Villa 15 points shy of safety with only a maximum of 12 on offer to the Birmingham club in their four remaining league matches this season...
LONDON: Aston Villa’s long-expected relegation from the Premier League was finally confirmed with a 1-0 loss away to Manchester United on Saturday as teenage rising star Marcus Rashford scored his seventh goal in 12 games...
Defeat left bottom-of-the-table Villa 15 points shy of safety with only a maximum of 12 on offer to the Birmingham club in their four remaining league matches this season...
MADRID: Spanish police announced on Friday they had detained one of Europe’s most wanted drug lords in his luxury villa on the Costa del Sol...
NEW YORK:Italian great Andrea Pirlo announced his move to New York City FC on Monday and new teammates Frank Lampard and David Villa welcomed him to Major League Soccer's hottest club...
“Bienvenido Maestro,” tweeted Spanish striker Villa...