Football

Chennaiyin FC on Sunday announced the signing of Italian defender Alessandro Potenza for the second season of the Hero Indian Super League.

Real Madrid and Monaco have agreed a deal under which Real's left back Coentrao will go on loan to the Ligue 1 side for the 2015-16 season.

Platini will publish his manifesto in the next six to eight weeks and wants to bring football back into the spotlight during the campaign.

English champions Chelsea confirmed their winger Cuadrado has joined Italian champions Juventus on loan until the end of the season.

City earned a third straight win to start the Premier League season, beating Everton 2-0 thanks to second-half goals by Aleksandar Kolarov and Samir Nasri.

Delhi Dynamos are embarking on a training trip to Sweden, Norway and Denmark at the end of this month to prepare for the second season of ISL that starts in October.

Athletic Bilbao showed Barcelona are vulnerable when they thrashed them 4-0 in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup last week.

Rooney believes the criticism directed at him for the lack of goals for Manchester United is unwarranted and is confident he will soon rediscover his scoring touch.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho described his team's 3-0 Premier League defeat at Manchester City as a "fake" result.

Manchester City posted a 3-0 win over Chelsea on Sunday in the first heavyweight showdown in the Premier League, compounding the champions' early-season problems.

"I can confirm that UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino sent a letter of complaint to FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke," a UEFA spokesman said.

A 2-1 win at West Ham on Saturday gave Leicester a second straight victory to open the season and moved the team top of the fledgling standings.

Yaya Toure scored twice in the first half Monday as Manchester City began their Premier League campaign with an impressive 3-0 win over West Bromwich Albion.

Hertha Berlin are in the north-west region of the country to play a German Cup match. No one was injured in the incident.

There was little goalmouth action at Stoke until Liverpool's Brazilian midfielder Coutinho scored with a ferocious shot from 25 meters in the 86th minute.

West Bromwich Albion have signed Arsenal's midfielder Serge Gnabry on loan, the Midlands club announced on Friday.