Rumour of the Summer - Reports in Iran suggest radical Iranians Ansar Hezbollah wants to buy Manchester United. The England's Barclay Premiership 2007-2008 Season has started with a insane rumour of Iranians interest in Manchester United. The group — backers of hard-line Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — even plan to rename the football giants to Khaybar after a holy Muslim oasis. The Sun of UK has quoted Ansar Hezbollah's secretary general, Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi, as saying,  "Once we have bought Manchester United we will change its name to Khaybar." Khaybar is near the Muslim holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia and it is the site where Jewish inhabitants were defeated by the Prophet Mohammed's followers in 629 AD. Manchester United fans ...

Sixteen year old Evans Thomas from Ernakulam, Kerala, has won the "WHERE'S THE NEXT" Nike football contest, which was held across India in July 07. Evans will form part of an 11-member team from Asia that will get an exclusive opportunity to train for a week with the FC Barcelona coaches, from August 27 to September 4. The encouraging response to the call for entries saw teenagers from across the country, in the age group of 15 to 17 years, posting one-minute videos that displayed their football skills on www.nikefootball.in website. The finalists from India, judged on the basis of these videos, were taken to Delhi on August 5 to attend the Grand Final, where Indian football team captain Baichung Bhutia selected the winner.  ...

The world's most famous Football club Manchester United have signed a gifted nine-year-old boy after his grandfather sent the Premier League champions a DVD showcasing the boy's talents which has become a YouTube sensation.The boy's dribbling and goalscoring prowess for an Under-10 side in Brisbane, Australia, feature in a four-minute YouTube clip is already viewed by more than 800,000 times. Rhain Davis, who was born in England but has lived in Australia since the age of four, was hailed by the British press on Thursday as the next Wayne Rooney after the United striker. Manchester United confirmed the signing but played down the hype around Davis, who has moved back to Cheshire in northern England with his father, ...

The Indian football team held Portuguese third division team GDR Monsanto goalless in their last outing and finished unbeaten on their tour of Portugal. The draw was significant as star striker Baichung Bhutia, who scored four goals in the last two games, did not take the field due to a minor injury. Besides, India played most of the match without striker Sunil Chetri, who was substituted in the first half. In the opening match of the tour, India drew with Portuguese second division side Odivelas FC 1-1 and then registered a 3-2 victory over Portugese third division side AC Marinhense, followed by convincing 3-0 victory over third division side Recreativo Agueda at the Estadio Municipal in Lisbon on Sunday.

Iraq's Captain Younis Mahmoud's headed goal crowned Iraq as the Asian Cup champions for the first time with a 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia in the final on Sunday, 29th July 2007. The 71st-minute header off a Hawar Mohammed corner was the only goal in the fiercely-contested all-Arab final over the three-time champion Saudis in a seething Gelora Bung Karno Stadium. It was a coaching triumph for Brazilian Jorvan Vieira, 54, who only signed a two-month contract with the Iraqi Football Federation and said on Saturday he intended to quit the job after accomplishing what he had set out to achieve. Thousands of Iraqis have spilled onto the streets to celebrate their football squad's Asian Cup victory, firing guns into the air ...

Brazil's ruthless victory (3-0) against old rivals Argentina to win the Copa America for the second time in a row, has helped moved them back to the top of FIFA's world rankings. Argentina also moved up to 2nd place, with World Cup Champions Italy slipping to 3rd place. Brazil were knocked off top spot in January, having previously led the rankings for an uninterrupted run of more than four years. The recent flurry of matches on the American continent has also helped Mexico to move up by 16 places to 10th off the back of their appearance in the Gold Cup final and the semi-finals of the Copa America. The other prominent changes are Croatia entry into Top 10, climbing from 11th to 7th place. While England and Czech ...

The footballer Thierry Henry has split with his English wife Claire who is also known by her modelling name Nicole Merry after four years of marriage. The couple have a two year old daughter called Téa There had been claims their marriage was put under strain by Henry's £16 million transfer to Barcelona last month and that the 27-year-old Claire,who was born in Croydon, Surrey, wanted to stay in London. Henry, who is French, had been seeing Claire for two years at the time of their wedding. They were married in a lavish ceremony at Highclere Castle, Berkshire, in July 2003. Henry Family in happy days  A statement through his lawyers said, Thierry is extremely saddened by the breakdown of his marriage. ...

After getting naked with wife Victoria for the latest edition of America’s trendy W magazine, the 32-year old former England Captain, David Beckham, has finally joined the World Wide Web and has launched his own website, www.davidbeckham.com, which also have a blog. The website covers News, Football/Soccer, Blog, Lifestyle (must be Posh's idea), David Beckham Academy and Charity. The England star, who was unveiled as a Los Angeles Galaxy football club player last week, admits on site it took him a long time to getting round to setting it up. The Football ( now Soccer ) Star writes on his blog, Hi everybody,Thanks for joining me on davidbeckham.com – it does seem incredible ...

The English Football Premiership Club Manchester United's boss Sir Alex Ferguson has forbidden his young players to use Social Networking websites especially Facebook in an effort to protect them from want-to-be WAGS. A number of young stars – including England's Kieran Richardson cousin of Big Brother 8 UK housemate Charley Uchea - at Old Trafford have set up sites on social networks like Facebook but have been ordered to go offline. Ferguson is worried they will be stalked by girls and get themselves into trouble with revealing photos or wall messages. Fergei felt a few of the players could get themselves into trouble on those websites. 'He trusts them but didn't want them to run the risk ...

Brazil's 1970 World Cup winning team have been voted the best of all time in a global poll of experts conducted by World Soccer magazine. World Soccer magazine described Brazil's 1970 winners as "more than a team", adding: "the Brazilian side that won the 1970 World Cup in such style have become a myth, a team to be held up as the ultimate exponents of the beautiful game". The greatest goal of all time was judged to be Diego Maradona's mesmerising second against England in Argentina's 2-1 quarter-final victory in the 1986 World Cup quarter-finals in Mexico City. The vote for the greatest match of all time completed a hat-trick for events that took place in World Cups in Mexico. The experts ...