Football briefs: Barca sniff title after Atletico lose

[Ghana], April 16 (ANI): The authorities of Ghana's capital Accra on Saturday ordered the mosques and churches to restrict the use of the loudspeakers and instead make use of the social networking application WhatsApp to initiate prayer calls to the people.

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Bayern Munich's Juan Bernat and team mates celebrate winning the league with a replica trophy. Photograph: Michael Dalder/Reuters. Bayern Munich clinched a sixth successive Bundesliga title with five games to spare on Saturday by winning 4-1 win at Augsburg despite falling behind to a bizarre own goal.   Bayern's celebrations looked in danger of being delayed when the ball went into their net off their own defender ...

Bayern Munich fought back with a deflected own goal and a late header from Thiago to claim a 2-1 win at Sevilla in an exciting Champions League quarter-final, first leg clash on Tuesday. Pablo Sarabia had put Sevilla ahead in the 32nd minute when he got the ...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced his arrival in Major League Soccer with two goals on his debut including an injury-time winner as the Los Angeles Galaxy fought back from three goals down to beat Los Angeles FC 4-3. Ibrahimovic -- who only arrived in California ...

Gabriel Jesus struck the winner as Brazil put memories of their 2014 World Cup mauling by Germany behind them with a 1-0 friendly win in Berlin on Tuesday. Jesus first-half goal at Berlins Olympic Stadium, packed with a 72,717-strong crowd, saw Brazil end ...

GERMANY 1 SPAIN 1PORTUGAL 2 EGYPT 1BRAZIL 3 RUSSIA 0ENGLAND 1 THE NETHERLANDS 0FRANCE 2 COLOMBIA 3 Images from the football friendlies on Friday night. Germany draw 1-1 with Spain IMAGE: Germany's Thomas Mueller, left, celebrates with Jerome Boateng after scoring their first goal against Spain. Photograph: Thilo Schmuelgen/Reuters World champions Germany drew 1-1 with Spain in a high tempo friendly on Friday as they launched their preparations for a title defence in Russia while their ...

Eintracht Frankfurt cruised 3-0 past relegation threatened Mainz meanwhile runner up Schalke carved out a 1-0 victory over struggling Wolfsburg at the 27th round in Bundesliga.Eintracht Frankfurt underlined their intention to make it to the top four as goals ...

Fans flood pitch with tennis balls in Bundesliga Monday night protest IMAGE: Hundreds of green tennis balls were thrown onto the pitch and toilet rolls were hurled at the goals. PHOTOGRAPH: RB Leipzig/Twitter Fans protested against Monday night football in the Bundesliga as Eintracht Frankfurt beat visiting RB Leipzig 2-1, delaying the start of both halves of the match, the second by throwing hundreds of tennis balls onto the pitch.   Leipzig, who missed a chance to go second in the ...

IMAGE: Real Madrid’s Casemiro and Marcello are stunned after Levante’s late second goal. Photograph: Heino Kalis/Reuters Giampaolo Pazzini struck an 89th-minute equaliser on his Levante debut to earn his side a deserved 2-2 draw against struggling giants Real Madrid on Saturday. Madrid stay fourth in La Liga after the veteran Italian forward broke through on goal and fired past Keylor Navas, who got a hand to it but could not keep the ball out. Sergio Ramos, back from injury, ...