About 9,000 fans were in Cleveland Browns Stadium Saturday to cheer for the U.S. women. The contest was the first of six warmup games the United States is hosting before heading to China for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is one of five football players who have begun talks over new contracts, manager Rafael Benitez confirmed on Friday.

AC Milan will meet Liverpool in the soccer UEFA Champions League final for the second time in three seasons after beating Manchester United 3-0 for a 5-3 aggregate semi-final victory at the San Siro.

Real Madrid will reportedly appeal David Beckham's suspension for Sunday's league match with fellow title candidate Sevilla.

Where will the two warring nations play their European qualification matches?

Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick feels United are more than capable of finishing the job against AC Milan next week and securing a place in the Champions League final.

UEFA have fined Manchester United 21,300 euros following crowd disturbances at the UEFA Champions League match in Rome on 4 April. Their hosts, AS Roma, have been fined 47,700 euros.

UEFA President Michel Platini praised everyone involved in last night's Manchester United-Milan match.

Azerbaijani football players are ready to come to Yerevan in case UEFA decides for the Azeri-Armenian "Euro-2008" elimination games to be held in the "Republican" stadium after Vazgen Sargsyan.

Argentina's soccer international against Australia on June 6 at Melbourne has been postponed indefinitely because the South American team was concerned it could not field enough top players for the match.

On April 18 the UEFA Executive Board was to decide the venue of the Euro-2008 selection phase meetings of the Armenian and Azeri football teams. But the discussion was postponed till June.

The executive committee of UEFA, the governing body of European soccer, today announced that Poland and Ukraine have been chosen to co-host the European Championship tournament in 2012.