Association football

A court in southeastern Turkey has acquitted Amedspor's German-born footballer Deniz Naki on charges of making terror propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

A Code Orange alert has been announced by Bulgarian weather authorities for many of the counry's regions.

Severe weather conditions are expected throuhgout Bulgaria, with strong breezes and gales, with stormy gusts of up to 32 m/s are to be felt in 20 of 28 Bulgarian regions on Tuesday, the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) says. 

Months after the case was dismissed, a Spanish judge has declared that F.C. Barcelona and Brazil footballer Neymar, whose full name is Neymar da Silva Santos Junior, should stand trial for fraud.

Fenerbahçe won three golden points against Akhisar Belediyespor Nov. 6 to remain in the league race in a game in which its Dutch international Robin van Persie suffered an eye injury, with media reports criticizing officials for only allowing medical aid to arrive late.

Three first-half goals gave a clearly superior Olympiakos a 3-0 win over archrival Panathinaikos in the Greek derby on Sunday to make the Reds a hot favorite for one more Super League title, as they have now opened a seven-point gap over the Greens. AEK and PAOK also had adverse results this weekend.

Turkey's star midfielder Arda Turan of Barcelona was on Nov. 5 recalled to the national side for the World Cup qualifier against Kosovo after apparently healing a rift with coach Fatih Terim.

İstanbul club Fenerbahçe managed to beat all expectations and beat Manchester United 2-1 at home in a Europa League Group A game late on Nov. 3. Having lost 4-1 two weeks ago in Manchester, Fenerbahçe produced a stunning performance capped by a brilliant Moussa Sow bicycle-kick goal and a Jeremain Lens free-kick.

FIFA on Thursday fined the Croatian and Kosovo's soccer federations a total of 80,000 Swiss francs for anti-Serbian chants by fans of both countries at a World Cup qualifying match in Shkodra, Albania in October. Kosovo was fined 30,000 francs.

A Technical High School student in Novi Pazar, southwestern Serbia, has been stabbed tree times in the neck and back with a knife during class.

The identity of the victim, who was taken to the hospital in a stable condition, remains unknown.

A standing dispute among football fans across the world is which goal was better: Argentina’s Diego Maradona second goal against England in the 1996 World Cup or Barcelona’s Leo Messi against Getafe in the Spanish Primera Division. Both were almost identical in their sheer brilliance, which why it so hard to separate them. But maybe one more contender has been added to the list.