Veteran Czech midfielder Pavel Nedved has signed a one-year contract extension with Juventus, the club said on Tuesday.
The news is a welcome boost to Juventus who will play in the Champions League next season after ensuring they will end this Serie A campaign in third place.
Nedved s contract will now last until the end of June 2009.
This contract extension is the best way to reinforce the squad ahead of next season, said Juve administrator Jean-Claude Blanc.
Pavel has been an integral part of Juventus s story and will continue to add character and quality to the team.
The Czech is 35 years old and joined Juve in 2001. He has played 282 matches and scored 58 goals.
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Italian daily that Milan have launched a fresh assault on Manchester City star Mario Balotelli.
Even though it appeared the negotiations between the two clubs had broken down, the latest reports suggest the Rossoneri are prepared to make one final offer before the January transfer window closes.
Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has instructed agent Mino Raiola to fly to Manchester and present a €20 million offer to City chiefs.
Manchester City first valued the player at €37m, then lowered the asking price to €28m, and it is now believed they are requesting just €25m.
The Citizens may not be willing to sell the player for less than what they paid for him in the summer of 2010 (€22m plus bonuses), but Milan chiefs are hoping they will jump …
Bruno Martins Indi and Steven Berghuis have been added to the Netherlands squad by coach Danny Blind following a pair of withdrawals.
Stoke City centre-back Martins Indi will now get the chance to make his first appearance for the national team since being sent off in the Euro 2016 qualifying defeat to Iceland in Amsterdam in September 2015.
He has been called up as a replacement for Terence Kongolo, who has pulled out after sustaining a hamstring injury in Feyenoord s defeat to Go Ahead Eagles on Sunday.
Spartak Moscow winger Quincy Promes, who scored twice in the 4-1 victory over Belarus in a 2018 World Cup qualifier last month, will also miss out due to an ankle injury and Berghuis assumes his spot.
Netherlands face Belgium in a friendly on Wednesday b…
Former Sunderland manager Dick Advocaat if may be better for the club to be relegated like arch-rivals Newcastle United in order to rebuild.
David Moyes Sunderland are set for another relegation battle this season, adrift at the bottom of the Premier League table on goal difference, after ex-boss Sam Allardyce helped avoid relegation last term.
It is an all too familiar story for Sunderland, who had Advocaat to thank in 2015 after the Dutchman preserved their top-flight status having arrived in March.
And Advocaat now in charge of Turkish giants Fenerbahce said Sunderland could learn from Newcastle, who sit atop the Championship following their drop to the second tier in 2015-16.
You can only define Sunderland s problems if they spend the same as other c…
In Halo Infinite, loot caves might just flip a round of Stockpile, CTF, or another Big Team Battle mode in your favor. Giving your team access to a wide range of weapons and equipment as well as a uniquely hard-to-reach vantage point, these loot caves are rare at launch, but critically important. Here’s how to get into Halo loot caves, plus what you’ll find inside of them.
Halo Infinite: how to get into loot caves
We’re in the early days of Halo Infinite, and right now there appears to be only one map with Halo loot caves to unlock. That map is Fragmentation, which in public matchmaking is exclusive to Big Team Battle queues, as it’s one of the biggest maps in the game Come from Sports betting sit…
Brighton and Hove Albion s upcoming Premier League meeting with Crystal Palace has been postponed due to a planned rail strike.
The match at the Amex Stadium between the rival clubs – nicknamed the A23 derby – had been scheduled to take place on September 17.
However, with strike action due to affect most major rail line operators in the United Kingdom that day, it was announced on Wednesday the game will be rearranged.
No new date for the fixture has been set.
Brighton and Palace both described the decision to postpone the contest as regrettable .
Brighton chief executive Paul Barber added: The safety of fans of both clubs, our matchday staff, players and officials must be the priority.
We have taken into consideration how diffic…
Liverpool must capitalise on their home advantage in Sunday s FA Cup derby because Everton are on fire under Carlo Ancelotti, according to Jurgen Klopp.
Anfield will stage a touchline battle between Klopp and Ancelotti for the second time in six weeks after the Italian visited in the Champions League in his previous guise as head coach of Napoli.
The spoils were shared that night, with Liverpool coming from behind to earn a 1-1 draw, but Ancelotti was soon ousted from the troubled Serie A club.
Everton offered the former AC Milan, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich boss a rapid return to the game, and wins over Burnley and Newcastle gave Ancelotti a positive start.
A narrow defeat to Manchester City followed, but Klopp senses there is a revival under way wit…
Former England captain David Beckham believes he can add experience to England at next year s World Cup in South Africa.
Speaking to Saturday s Gazzetta dello Sport, the former England captain explained that his sights are set firmly on the global football showpiece in Africa as well as Milan s quest to return to next season s Champions League.
Milan spent a year in purgatory in the UEFA Cup this season after finishing fifth in Serie A last time out and failing to qualify for Europe s premier competition.
But most important for him is the World Cup and Beckham believes he still has a lot to offer.
My experience for one because it s a young team, he said. For me it would be enough just to be useful to the team and to keep working with (Fabio) Capello, wh…
Blackburn v Portsmouth
Both of these teams have had seasons to forget really. It could have been a lot worse for both if the boards of directors hadn’t reacted as quickly to get rid of Paul Ince and Tony Adams respectively,
As it stands, both teams are pretty much safe and a point each here should just see them OK.
SoccerNews prediction: 1-1
Bolton v Sunderland
Gary Megson’s side only need a point to be mathematically safe and they will fancy themselves to get at least that in this one.
Sunderland look like a team who don’t know where their next point is coming from. They are four points clear of the drop zone and their only hope seems to be that three of Hull, Newcastle, Middlesbrough and West Brom wi…
West Brom defender Gareth McAuley has heaped praise upon new addition Morgan Amalfitano after his impressive start to life at the Hawthorns.
The 28-year-old joined the Midlands side on loan from Marseille days before the transfer window closed and has already made quite an impact, netting twice in four Premier League starts.
His fine individual form has helped inspire an upturn in the team s performances and West Brom are unbeaten in four league matches after starting the new campaign in shaky fashion.
McAuley, who has been with the club since 2011, is thrilled with how the Frenchman has settled in and feels his parent club Marseille are missing out.
He (Amalfitano) is some player, McAuley told the club s official website. I don t know who plays on the right of m…