Barcelona fans will flock to the cavernous Camp Nou stadium Saturday to pay their final respects to football legend Johan Cruyff, the man who engineered some of the club's greatest triumphs.

Cruyff, 68, died on Thursday after a battle with lung cancer.

Athletics may be submerged in doping scandals, but Paula Radcliffe believes it deserves credit for its promotion of equal pay for men and women even if she was once fobbed off with a table lamp for winning a race.

The thorny topic of gender equality in sport came to the fore this week when Raymond Moore, director of the joint men's and women's tennis tournament in Indian Wells, California, said female players should "get down on (their) knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born".

France claimed an exciting 3-2 friendly win over the Netherlands on a night of emotion in Amsterdam on Friday, the day after Dutch legend Johan Cruyff died at the age of 68.

The match at the Amsterdam ArenA was preceded by a minute's silence in memory of the 31 people killed and 300 injured in the Brussels attacks on Tuesday.

Argentina avenged their Copa America final defeat to Chile with a 2-1 victory on Thursday as Ecuador scrambled a late draw with Paraguay to preserve their unbeaten start to South America's 2018 World Cup qualifying competition.

Goals from Angel Di Maria and defender Gabriel Mercado secured a vital three points for Argentina in Santiago after Chile had taken an 11th-minute lead through Felipe Gutierrez at the National Stadium.

Six Chinese swimmers have tested positive for drugs in recent months, state media said, after the World Anti-Doping Agency said it was investigating an alleged cover-up.

Three swimmers -- Zhao Ying, Wang Lizhuo and An Jiabao -- tested positive for clenbuterol last year, the official Xinhua news agency cited the China Swimming Association (CSA) as saying late Thursday, although none of them have competed at the Olympics or world championships.

Football was accused of having a "cultural problem" as former England international Adam Johnson was sentenced to six years in prison after engaging in unlawful sexual activity with a 15-year-old fan.

Johnson, once a winger with Sunderland and Manchester City, was found guilty on Thursday following an incident in his Range Rover car in County Durham, northeast England, last year.

World champions Germany host England at Berlin's Olympic Stadium in an international friendly on Saturday. AFP Sports looks at five historic clashes between the rivals:

- July 30 1966, World Cup final, Wembley stadium, London

French authorities have vowed maximum security for the European Championships that start in June but top officials and experts admit the country is defenseless to head off an Islamic State attack.

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the 24 nations taking part are expected in France for the tournament that starts June 10. But militant attacks in Paris in November and Brussels this week have already cast a shadow over the event.

Football went back to business on Thursday but a series of Euro 2016 friendlies were played out against a somber background following the Brussels attacks and the death of Dutch legend Johan Cruyff.

In Prague, where the Czech Republic hosted Scotland, there was a minute's silence to remember the 31 people killed in Brussels and to honor Cruyff who lost his battle with lung cancer at the age of 68 on Thursday.

Former England footballer Adam Johnson was sentenced to six years in prison at Bradford Crown Court on Thursday after being found guilty of sexual activity with a 15-year-old fan.

Johnson, once a winger with Sunderland and Manchester City, was found guilty following an incident in his Range Rover car in County Durham, north-east England, last year.