FOOTBALL : Man City sign Jesus Navas from Sevilla for 4 years

Manchester City have confirmed the signing of winger Jesus Navas from Sevilla on a four-year deal.

Navas, 27, passed a medical in New York to complete a deal worth an initial £14.9m, potentially rising to £15.9m over the course of his contract.

Navas, aged 27, has earned 23 caps for Spain. He is a pacy right winger, and part of Spain's successful 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 squads and is in the 23-man party picked for the eight-nation Confederations Cup, which starts on 15 June.

Navas spent his entire career to date at Sevilla, which is 20 miles north of his hometown of Los Palacios y Villafranca.

He was a key part of the Sevilla team that won the Uefa Cup in 2006 and 2007 but was held back earlier in his career by a fear of travelling away from his Andalusian home.

FOOTBALL : Japan qualify for 2014 World Cup.

Japan have become the first team to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil next summer.

Keisuke Honda scored an injury-time penalty in a 1-1 draw against Australia to secure Japan's place at the finals for a fifth successive time.

Japan have 14 points and an unassailable seven-point lead over the 3rd placed Australia in their Asian qualifying group, with the top two team automatically progressing to the Finals.

Australia are still battling with Jordan, Oman and Iraq for either the second qualification spot, or third place, which would result in a home and away playoff with the third placed team from Group A.

GROUP B

Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Japan	7	4	2	1	15	5	14
Oman	7	2	3	2	7	9	9
Australia	6	1	4	1	7	7	7
Jordan	6	2	1	3	6	12	7
Iraq	6	1	2	3	4	6	5

Jose Mourinho returns to manage Chelsea with a four-year deal

The worst secret in English footbal has been confirmed - Jose Mourinho has been confirmed as Chelsea's manager, returning for a second spell in charge at the London club.

Mourinho, who is now 50, replaces Rafael Benitez after leaving Real Madrid, and has signed a four-year contract and will bring three coaching staff with him in Rui Faria, Silvino Louro and Jose Morais.

The Portuguese manager won two consecutive Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two League Cups during his first spell at Chelsea, which ended in September 2007.

FOOTBALL : Brazil 2-2 England - all square at the Maracana

Brazil dominated early, but needed a late goal to scramble a 2-2 draw with England in a friendly at the rebuilt Maracana stadium in Rio De Janerio.

Brazil, the 2014 World Cup hosts, dominated the first half, as they pulled England apart but failed to score as English keeper Joe Hart made a series of fine saves and blocks.

The second half looked to be following the same script after Fred put Brazil ahead on 57 minutes but England changed tactics and started to come forward and created three good chances in the next 25 minutes.

Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain levelled the score with a quality low drive from the edge of the penalty area, and then 12 minutes later Wayne Rooney gave England the lead after a determined run and a 25-yard shot that was deflected and looped over the stranded keeper.

Paulinho levelled the score three minutes later, with a fine volley - meeting a cross 12-yards out and driving the ball just inside the far post, but England can take credit from battling through a period when they were outclassed by Brazil to come away with a draw.

Brazil, whose last match at the old Maracana was a goalless draw against Colombia in a World Cup qualifier in 2008, have drawn four of their six games since 2002 World Cup winner Phillipe Scolari returned for a second stint as manager, only beating Bolivia.

GOALS :
Brazil - Fred (57), Paulinho (82)
England - Oxlade-Chamberlain (67), Rooney (79)

STATS :
Possession - Brazil 59% - England 41%
Shots -------- Brazil 29 - England 8

FOOTBALL : Rafael Benitez named as new Napoli manager.

Napoli have appointed Rafael Benitez as their new manager for the 2013-14 season.

Benitez had been looking for a new job with his deal as interim Chelsea manager coming to an end, and he was in demand - with an impressive career that has seen him win the Champions League and FA Cup with Liverpool, La Liga (twice) and Uefa Cup with Spanish club Valencia.

Napoli finished second in Serie A, behind Juventus, and will be in the Champions League next season.

Meanwhile, it seems very likely that Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho will rejoin Chelsea this summer.

FOOTBALL : Crystal Palace win promotion to English Premier League

Veteran striker Kevin Phillips scored the only goal of the match in extra-time from the penalty spot as Crystal Palace beat Watford 1-0 at Wembley in a tight Championship play-off.

Phillips, a former Watford player, made no mistake from the spot, picking out the top corner in the 105th minute after Marco Cassetti had needlessly brought down Wilfried Zaha.

The size of the potential promotion prize, which is estimated at around £120m in TV rights and "solidarity payments" seemed to freeze both sides, and it was a disappointing game with neither keeper having to make a save in the first half.

Crystal Palace are now the first club to have won promotion to the Premier League five times - although they will be hoping this stay is longer than their previous four visits, which all lasted just one season.

FOOTBALL : Lazio beat Roma to win Coppa Italia

Lazio won the Coppa Italia for the sixth time with a 1-0 win over fierce rivals Roma at Stadio Olimpico.

Senad Lulic scored the only goal of the game in the 70th minute after Roma keeper Bogdan Lobont failed to deal with an Antonio Candreva cross.

Roma's best chance to equalise came when Francesco Totti's free-kick was deflected onto the crossbar and a goalmouth scramble was cleared.

Victory for Lazio means they qualify for the Europa League group stage

Barcelona win race for Brazilian star Neymar - agree 5 year deal with Santos

Barcelona have announced that they have reached a deal with Brazilian club Santos for Neymar, transferring the 21-year-old forward in a five year deal.

Santos had accepted two offers made by Barcelona and Real Madrid for Neymar, and earlier Saturday, reports in the Catalan media Sport.es said the Brazilian star had chosen to play for Barcelona.

Neymar is the club's leading scorer in the post-Pele era with 138 goals in 229 matches, and is likely to join Barcelona after playing for Brazil in the Confederations Cup in June.

Brazilian media reported that Real Madrid was willing to pay 35 million euro ($45.1 million), but Neymar has said in the past that his personal preference is to play alongside Lionel Messi in Barcelona. Barcelona will pay 25 million euros ($32.3 million).

Bayern Munich win UEFA Champions League

Bayern Munich beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in a memorable Champions League final on Saturday to become European champions for the fifth time.

Goals from Croatian Mario Mandzukic after 60 minutes and Dutchman Arjen Robben, with a stunning 89th-minute solo strike, settled a well contested final after Dortmund had levelled with a 68th-minute penalty from Ilkay Guendogan.

The victory kept alive Bayern Munich's hopes of a treble as they have already won the German league title and face VfB Stuttgart in the Cup final in Berlin next Saturday.