Striker Judivan scored twice as Brazil beat Nigeria 4-2 on Monday in a thrilling start to its FIFA Under-20 World Cup campaign.

The lead changed hands twice during the first half, and the teams went to halftime locked at 2-2 before Judivan clinched the match with his second goal eight minutes from fulltime thanks to a rare Nigerian defensive blunder.

In the buildup to the Champions League final, Lionel Messi and Andrea Pirlo could be overshadowed by a star of the showpiece 30 years earlier: Michel Platini.

As Barcelona and Juventus descend on Berlin to contest European football's annual extravaganza on Saturday, the UEFA president will be formulating the continent's fightback against Sepp Blatter's FIFA.

Lazio bounced back from two debilitating losses to beat Napoli 4-2 on Sunday and secure a spot in the Champions League playoffs on the final day of the Serie A season.

Lazio finished third, five points ahead of Fiorentina and six ahead of Napoli, qualifying for the final playoff round for the lucrative European competition in August.

Roger Federer could be excused if he has a restless night.

With thick gray clouds overhead and light slipping away at the end of a rainy day, Federer got broken by Gael Monfils to even their French Open fourth-round match at a set apiece, right before play was suspended Sunday.

Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain claimed an historic quadruple trophy haul on Saturday by beating Auxerre 1-0 to win the French Cup title.

Edinson Cavani's header after 64 minutes sealed another title for the Parisian club who had already won the Ligue 1 crown along with the Champions' Trophy and the League Cup -- the three other trophies possible in French football.

The Spanish government has called a meeting for Monday to discuss possible sanctions after the national anthem was loudly jeered during the Copa del Rey final between Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao.

A capacity crowd of 99,000 supporters filled Barca's Camp Nou stadium Saturday for the Catalans 3-1 victory, but the game had a controversial beginning as supporters of both clubs with a strong regional identity drowned out the traditional playing of the anthem with whistles.

Brazilian star Neymar has insisted he won't be bullied into curbing his repertoire of skills after a host of Athletic Bilbao players reacted angrily to his show-boating towards the end of Barcelona's 3-1 Copa del Rey final win on Saturday.

Neymar flicked the ball over Unai Bustinza with both feet with two minutes to go and Barca well on their way to sealing a 27th Copa del Rey to go with the La Liga title they won two weeks ago.

France's Renaud Lavillenie defied injury to make an impressive 2015 Diamond League debut on Saturday, soaring 6.05m to a pole vault victory in Eugene.

While Lavillenie couldn't match his world record 6.16 set indoors in Donetsk last year, the highest outdoor vault of his career matched the second-highest ever achieved outdoors and was all the more impressive as he still feels the shoulder strain that kept him out of the first Diamond League meeting of the year in Doha on May 15.

A Lionel Messi-inspired Barcelona sealed a league and Cup double as they swept aside Athletic Bilbao 3-1 to win the Copa del Rey for a 27th time on Saturday.

Messi opened the scoring in spectacular fashion by dribbling past four Athletic players and lashing home a low finish before Neymar added a second before half-time.

On the pot-holed patches of bald grass that pass for training pitches in the Ivory Coast, dozens of talented young footballers dream of the greener fields of Europe.

But more often than not, their hopes of becoming a professional footballer in the richest leagues in the world turn to bitter disappointment.