Outgoing Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic admitted on Wednesday that the players "lost belief" during the campaign that has just ended, but says they never deserted former manager David Moyes.

"It was a bad time and the players could have done better. But everyone lost belief in the team," Vidic, who has agreed to join Inter Milan, told BBC Sport.

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is the subject of a criminal investigation in Portugal, authorities said Wednesday.

Officials wouldn't say what the investigation is about. In Portugal, ongoing investigations fall under the country's judicial secrecy law.

Unlucky Libya are among 26 countries in second round action this weekend when the qualifying journey to the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) continues.

The 'Mediterranean Knights' were ranked 12 in Africa this month by FIFA, but that placing does not count when it comes to the premier CAF national team competition.

South Korea's former Manchester United star Park Ji-Sung announced his retirement on Wednesday, ending a trailblazing career that made him Asia's most decorated player.

Park, 33, said a long-running knee problem had finally forced him out of a sport in which he reached the 2002 World Cup semi-finals and became the first Asian to play a Champions League final.

For those who think Rio's hotels seem a tad expensive at the World Cup, there are always alternatives -- perhaps a room in a "love hotel" or in a "pacified" slum.

Brazil's picturesque former capital will welcome some 400,000 of the 600,000 foreign tourists expected to throng the country during the June 12 to July 13 football championship, said tourist office Embratur.

Novak Djokovic made a winning return nearly a month after suffering a wrist injury, starting the Rome Masters on a rainy Tuesday with a 6-3, 7-5 defeat of Radek Stepanek.

The second-round victory after a bye was the first match for the world number two Serb since losing a Monte Carlo semifinal on April 19 to Roger Federer while suffering with his right wrist problem.

A German banker has told a Munich court that he accepted a multi-million dollar bribe from Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone to facilitate a business deal.

Gerhard Gribkowsky, the prosecution's star witness in Ecclestone's corruption trial, testified Tuesday that Ecclestone initially approached him suggesting the deal be made in Singapore.

Belgium coach Marc Wilmots on Tuesday unveiled a 24-strong World Cup squad that included young talents Adnan Januzaj and Divock Origi.

Wilmots called up 20 outfield players and four goalkeepers given the injury to Hoffenheim stop-shotter Koen Casteels.

Joachim Loew plans to coach Germany for at least two more years, regardless of results at next month's World Cup, with his contract to expire in 2016.

Having taken charge in 2006, the 54-year-old Loew signed an extension with the German Football Association (DFB) last October and says he plans to at least fulfill his contract which expires after Euro 2016 in France.

Tim Sherwood has been sacked as manager of Tottenham Hotspur, the English Premier League club announced Tuesday.

Sherwood, appointed mid-season to replace the axed Andre Villas-Boas, had long been tipped to be on his way out of the north London club at the end of the season.