How does an athlete without athletic prowess maintain a 20-year career?

The substitute Eder won the European Championship for Portugal with a brilliant goal after Cristiano Ronaldo went off injured in the first half.

Lionel Messi and his father Jorge have been sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax fraud, but the Barcelona forward is not expected to spend any time behind bars. The court of Catalonia on Wednesday found that the Messis had evaded tax on Lionel’s image rights, with more than €4m owed in back payments. But because the court’s sentence was less than two years and neither Messi has a criminal record, neither will be sent to prison.

Football fans around the world have a unique opportunity this year as both the Americas Cup and European Championship are taking place at the same time. The 45th edition of the Americas Cup is the Centennial one, and the first time it takes place in the U.S. With 16 teams playing 24 matches, the championship will draw in more than 533 million in a TV audience. The 15th edition of the Euro Cup is taking place across 10 cities in France with 24 teams playing over 50 matches — the most ever. A TV audience of 377 million is expected, also breaking broadcast records.

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Rowdy fans of the Euro soccer tournament in Paris are thronging Champ de Mars park near the Eiffel Tower, leaving the city’s dog walkers nowhere to run.

Iceland beats England 2-1 in Nice tonight! The fairy tale continues!

Vladimir Putin has apparently poked fun at England football fans, as he questioned how 200 Russian supporters were able to beat up “several thousand” followers of Roy Hodgson's side at the Euro 2016 tournament in France.

French authorities are restricting the sale of alcohol and drafting in 4,000 extra police in Lille ahead of England and Russia's next Euro 2016 matches. Shops selling alcohol will be closed until Friday, while some 350 bars will shut early on Wednesday and Thursday. England and Russia fans are gathering in Lille, and the FA has expressed "serious concerns" about security after clashes between supporters last week. Russia has been given a suspended disqualification from the tournament. And six England fans were jailed following Russia and England's draw in Marseille on Saturday.

A top football official in Moscow has praised the Russian fans involved in violence over the weekend in Marseille, saying they had defended their country’s honour and should be forgiven. “I don’t see anything wrong with the fans fighting,” Igor Lebedev wrote on Twitter. “Quite the opposite, well done lads, keep it up!” Lebedev, who sits on the executive committee of the Russian football union, is an MP from the nationalist Liberal Democratic party and the deputy chairman of the Russian parliament.

England fans embroiled in violence in Marseille on Saturday night have said groups of Russian hooligans launched “savage coordinated attacks” around the city, disguised in English club shirts and equipped with gumshields and telescopic truncheons. Roaming Russian fans approached the violence, which occurred before and after England’s opening Euro 2016 game in Marseille, with “military organisation”, fans said, as Uefa opened disciplinary proceedings against Russia’s football union.

Dimitri Payet scored a wonderful late goal to give France a win on the opening day.

After a tough loss the US looks to bounce back against Costa Rica

Although Iceland's national stadium seats just 15,000, it was less than half full for the start of the country's European Championship qualifying campaign against Turkey on September 9, 2014. But the 7,000 spectators that did turn up at the Laugardalsvöllur -- a one-tiered relic built in 1958 with nothing but cold Icelandic air swirling behind the goals -- were treated to the result of their lives, literally. As striker Kolbeinn Sigthorsson scored a breakaway goal in the 78th minute to give the Nordics a 3-0 lead, belief became infectious, and the impossible suddenly became reality.

A look at the United States first match in Copa America.

Netherlands, Ajax and Barcelona great Johan Cruyff - regarded as one of the greatest players of all time - dies of cancer aged 68.

German football legend Franz Beckenbauer is one of six men being investigated for their part in the country's 2006 World Cup bid. The ethics committee of world governing body Fifa has decided to act after examining a report commissioned by the German Football Association (DFB). In October, Beckenbauer, 70, said he made a "mistake" in the bidding process for which he took "responsibility".

Fifa has lodged a claim in the US for tens of millions of dollars in damages and compensation from indicted former executives

Gianni Infantino has been elected as the new FIFA president. The Swiss-born administrator had been UEFA general secretary since 2009, though will now take up the most senior position in world football's governing body. He won Friday's election in which delegates from all 209 of FIFA's member states participated, at an "extraordinary congress" called after the resignation of his disgraced predecessor Sepp Blatter.