Until recent months, Iceland’s national football team enjoyed an unprecedented period of success. Not only did the Nordic nation qualify for Euro 2016, they recorded a famous 2-1 win over England to make the quarter-finals of the competition. The tournament was the first in which they had qualified for in the senior game.

It got even better for the tiny nation when they qualified for the summer’s World Cup by winning their group. They were in dreamland. Just like buses the nation had waited so for so long for qualification for a major tournament, then two came along at once.

Massive achievement for a minnow

In terms of population, Iceland at an estimated 250,000 people is the smallest nation to ever participate at a World Cup. To put that in context, Salford in Gre…

Manchester City are in the final of the Champions League and of the FA Cup, and they re favourites to win the Premier League this season.

Though the historic treble seems close for his team, manager Pep Guardiola says these trophies need to be won before they re spoken about.

“First you have to win it, then after ask me the question. We are three games away, a win in each competition to win it.”

Pep Guardiola on if he wins the treble will he feel like his job at Manchester City is done.

— Football Daily (@footballdaily)

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Manchester City are celebrating another Premier League title but their season is far from done as they also target FA Cup and Champions League success.

Here, the PA news agency looks at their plans for their coming weeks.

How will Pep Guardiola approach their final two Premier League games?

With the Premier League title race over, City can afford to ease up for their two remaining league games – away to Brighton and Brentford – before switching attention to their two finals.

The line-up for Sunday’s dead rubber against Chelsea, when manager Guardiola named most of his big guns on the bench, showed he intends to lighten his star names’ load. Yet there is also a need to keep players sharp and prevent rustiness.

There may be a clue to his thinking i…

Robbie Keane has signalled his intention to see out his career in the MLS by signing a new multi-year contract with LA Galaxy, .

The Republic of Ireland international, who was absent from the squad that lost to Serbia last night, moved to Southern California in the summer of 2011, and has scored 34 goals and made 21 assists in just 55 appearances for the club so far.

The 33 year old has also been included in the MLS’s Top XI in each of the past two years.

The Galaxy also handed a new contract to Landon Donovan last year, while their third designated player, defender Omar Gonzalez, is committed to the club for the next three campaigns.

The new MLS season commences this weekend, with LA Galaxy taking on Real Salt Lake at the Stubhub Center .

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Galatasaray striker Didier Drogba says there will be no room for sentiment during Tuesday s UEFA Champions League clash at Chelsea.

Chelsea who won the competition in 2011-12 would appear to hold the upper hand heading into the second leg of the last-16 clash, having claimed a 1-1 draw in Turkey last month.

Drogba, who scored 157 goals in 341 games for Chelsea, is revered by the club s support and sure to get a fantastic reception at Stamford Bridge.

Yet while the Ivorian has acknowledged the sense of occasion, he is focused on winning the match for his current club.

Drogba said on Monday: It s very difficult to play against Chelsea but it s not going to be difficult for me because now I belong to Galatasaray.

I need to be professional. Of course there will…

that Alexis Sanchez is prepared to stay with Arsenal for another season, if they are prepared to show their ambition in the transfer market.

The Chile international has long been linked with a move away from the Gunners, who currently sit four points shy of the Premier League top four.

Leaders Chelsea have been strongly linked with a move for the forward, and Stamford Bridge could be his destination next summer once his contract with the North London club has expired.

Since arriving in England from Spanish giants Barcelona the twenty-eight year old has racked up one hundred and thirty-four appearances for Arsene Wenger’s side in all competitions, scoring sixty-four goals.

He was part of the squad that won the FA Cup in 2015 while internationally …

The 24-year-old French winger Florian Thauvin is enjoying a stellar season in Ligue 1 with Marseille.

The Newcastle flop is currently playing on loan at Marseille who are thought to be considering a possibility to resign the player that left for England back in 2015.

Thauvin has made 34 appearances this season, grabbing 10 goals along the way and managing 6 assists.

The in-form winger has been awarded the March Player of the Month prize due to his impressive appearances which have caught the eye of Europe’s big sides recently.

La Liga giants Barcelona have been linked with a Newcastle player, as well as Serie A hotshots Lazio, who already made an offer to Magpies last summer.

According to the reports coming from the however, the player himself…

Paris Saint-Germain are interested in signing Goncalo Ramos from Benfica in the summer of 2023, according to . The report has claimed that PSG want to revamp their forward-line next summer, and that that defending Ligue 1 champions are reportedly looking at bringing in the Portugal Under-21 international.

Ramos is one of the best forwards in Europe at the moment and has been in great form for Benfica for a while. The Portugal Under-21 international has scored four goals and provided one assists in seven Portuguese league matches so far this campaign.

Last season, the striker made 17 starts and 12 substitute appearances in the league for Benfica, scoring seven goals and providing one assist in the process. Ramos made four starts and three substitute appearances in the UE…

Jean-Clair Todibo is the Barcelona player who has tested positive for coronavirus, the defender revealed on social media.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Blaugrana revealed one of their nine players in pre-season training had returned a positive COVID-19 test.

The group mainly consisting of fringe players had been kept separate from the first team ahead of their Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich, meaning that match was not impacted.

Although Barca did not confirm the identity of the coronavirus case, Todibo took to Twitter to inform supporters of his diagnosis.

Hello everyone, he wrote. I inform you that I have tested positive for COVID-19. I am asymptomatic and I feel fine.

Hola a todos, os informo que he dado positivo por covid-19…

SOFIA (AFP) – CSKA Sofia coach Pavel Dotchev resigned on Monday after just three months in the job and three days before a Europa League playoff meeting with Welsh minnows New Saints FC, his club said.

Pavel Dotchev is no longer coach of CSKA. The name of his successor will be announced later, CSKA said in a statement.

CSKA, in financial meltdown, have regularly chopped and changed coaches since 2007 and Dotchev, brought in from German second division side Paderborn, only arrived on May 13.

But after one point from their three opening matches the club, languishing in the bottom four, decided he had to go.

Dotchev said he had come up against many obstacles and hinted at problems with the mentality of both players and the club s ownership.

CSK h…