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Last week's Playmaker Quiz went awry due to a regional holiday in Porto (HQ of thefinalball.com) and there is an air of national holiday today after Portugal's ponderous penalty shoot-out win ...

Ronaldo set to draw level with Figo as Portugal's most capped player of all-time. 

thefinalball.com is taking the bold step to offer our “crystalball” wisdom to predict who will go all the way at Euro 2016 and who will disappoint, as well as the players who will light ...

Portugal's hopes of Euro 2016 success have been rightly pinned on their superstar Cristiano Ronaldo but it appears the irresistable form of of Ricardo Quaresma may yet be the key to the nations ...

Squads have been finalised, Kenny G has been played in manager's hotel rooms and Euro 2016 is now but a week away.  There's nothing quite like the countdown before a ...

Milner is England's best on UEFA tracker On-form James ditching dull reputation Liverpool and England midfielder James Milner is one of Europe's five best players in 2016, according to ...

There's a bit  of a 'Groundhog Day' feel about this weekend, what with tomorrow night's Champions League final being a repeat of its 2013/14 predecessor.  Goals from ...

Luis Suarez hat-trick sealed Barcelona's 24th La Liga title and the Golden Boot for the sensational Uruguayan. 

Leicester City and Tottenham have made the headlines week after week in a Premier League campaign to remember as their team and player records tumble as the two have run away in the title race ...

Is it Harry Kane, Dimitri Payet, Jamie Vardy or is Riyad Mahrez the pick of the bunch? It's that time of year again where we debate over who is the stand out player of 2015/16. We firstly however ...

Gareth Bale starred in Real Madrid's 4-0 win over Sevilla yesterday - and overtook his Premier League goal total in the process.  The Welshman assisted Karim Benzema's cracking first ...

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Ronaldo is lagging behind French team-mate

England's capital clubs Chelsea and Arsenal progress to knock out stages of this seasons Champions League and will learn their fate in Monday's draw.   

Manchester United crash out of the Champions League at the group stage for the fourth time in the last 20 seasons while neighbours Man City find the formula as they advance in top spot from Group D....

The 23-man Ballon d'Or shortlist unsurprisingly features five players from Champions League winners Barcelona.   

Prior to the season starting the same names mill around with regard to the stars of the next campaign. Ronaldo, Messi, Rooney, Muller, Pirlo, Bale get doled out...but there are always ...

Here's Footballzz's full interview with Bradford City's Filipe Morais ahead of his emotional return to Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup on Saturday. Read on for Morais' take on Mourinho, ...

Cristiano Ronaldo is the player who hit the 150th goal mark the fastest in La Liga history.