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A Scudetto, Coppa Italia, a couple of European Cups, a UEFA Super Cup, a FIFA Club World Cup, a Premier League title, the FA Cup and a Ligue 1 title. Not a bad list of major honours for any football manager. Not a bad one at all. Carlo Ancelotti, ...

Doug McIntyre speaks with U.S. striker Herculez Gomez about his possible return to MLS from Liga MX. Gomez, whose Mexican-American heritage would be a marketing boon in the U.S., said he'd welcome a return to MLS, though not to KC, which owns his rights.

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Two games, 13 goals. Not a bad way to react to the disappointment of losing in the FIFA Club World Cup final. The verve and elan with which Chelsea dismantled first Leeds United and then Aston Villa has been a joy to behold and a world away from t...

For a team that has suffered the disappointment of being knocked out of the Champions League and then lost in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup, Chelsea's 5-1 win at Leeds United in the Capital One Cup Wednesday was as an emphatic statement of tea...

Soon after Corinthians defeated Chelsea 1-0 to nab its second FIFA Club World Cup title, ESPN Brasil reporter Andre Plihal and football analyst Paulo Vinicius Coelho talked with winning coach Adenor Leonardo Bacchi, otherwise known as Tite. The follo...

If I had to choose one word to describe the FIFA Club World Cup final from a Chelsea perspective, it would have to be "frustrating." In a game in which the balance of play was very even throughout, it always looked like the team that could make t...

The FIFA Club World Cup. Sounds like it should be kind of a big deal, doesn't it? After all, just four letters distinguish it from the infinitely important FIFA World Cup, and those four letters would seem to suggest an improvement on the formula: It...

Gameweek 17 presents big challenges to fantasy managers holding Chelsea players and to a lesser extent the few managers who have Southampton players. The teams will not be playing since Chelsea is at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan. No make-up date ...

The smart money might have always been on Chelsea to sweep past Monterrey to book a FIFA Club World Cup final meeting with Corinthians, but there was always the possibility of underestimating an unknown quantity and being made to look stupid. - Bl...

Chelsea and Southampton will not play in fantasy Gameweek 17. Their regularly scheduled game on December 15 is postponed since the Blues will be in Japan at the FIFA Club World Cup. This presents huge challenges to fantasy managers holding Chelsea pl...

Chelsea boss Rafael Benitez is eager to bring the FIFA Club World Cup to England for only the second time - after winning the competition with Inter Milan two years ago.

FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke on Wednesday gave the final approvals for the use of goal line technology at the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan.

Brisbane coach Ange Postecoglou wants the Roar's Asian Champions League campaign to put the A-League on world soccer's map.

SUNDAY, DEC. 18 TELEVISION FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP Barcelona (Spain) vs. Santos (Brazil) Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Deportes, 2:30 a.m. Barca looks to repeat as FIFA's club champion with a battle against Neymar and the South American champs in ...

THURSDAY, DEC. 15 TELEVISION FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP Barcelona (Spain) vs. Al-Sadd (Qatar) Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Deportes, 2:30 a.m. The Qataris stunned the African champs from Tunisia to reach the semifinals, where await the mightiest o...

South American champion Santos beat Japan's Kashiwa Reysol 3-1 Wednesday night in the semifinals of the FIFA Club World Cup, setting up a possible showdown in the final between Barcelona star Lionel Messi and Brazilian teenager Neymar.