Association football

Turkish national team coach Fatih Terim was left on the hot seat following a 2-0 defeat against a rising Iceland in a 2018 World Cup qualification group match late on Oct. 9 in Reykjavik.

Even some soft-tongued critics, including former Turkish international Rüştü Reçber, have called on Terim to resign. 

Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov is one of the names considered by Napoli as a replacement to injured Arkadiusz Milik, Football Italia has said.

His name is among the four options for the Italian team after Milik is expected to be out of action for four months, the others being Emmanuel Adebayor, Marouane Chamakh or Kevin Kuranyi, according to the website.

Iceland beat Turkey 2-0 on Oct. 9 in a 2018 World Cup qualifier match at the Laugardalsvollur Stadium in Reykjavik.

Iceland took the lead in the 42nd minute when Ömer Toprak scored an own goal. The hosts effectively ended the contest just two minutes later when Alfred Finnbogason scored a second.

Greece's national soccer team is visiting Tallinn on Monday for its World Cup 2018 qualifying game against host Estonia, following its victory over Cyprus on Friday. Costas Mitroglou and Petros Mantalos scored first-half goals in Greece's 2-0 win, which saw the Greek side make two wins in as many games in the group, keeping it at the top along with Belgium.

Greece made it two out of two in the World Cup qualifiers beating visiting Cyprus 2-0 in Piraeus despite a rather lackluster performance on Friday. Two first-half goals by Costas Mitroglou and Petros Mantalos sealed it for the hosts.

Turkey, which grabbed a comeback draw against Ukraine in a Group I World Cup qualifier on Oct. 6, is now set to visit a well-motivated Iceland, which achieved an even more striking comeback against Finland on the same night. 

STARA PAZOVA - The head coach of the Serbia national football team Slavoljub Muslin said Monday he would only be pleased with all six points from October's World Cup qualifying games against Moldova and Austria.

The Turkish international football team hosts Ukraine in the Central Anatolian province of Konya on Oct. 6 in its bid to advance to the 2018 World Cup in qualification Group I.
All three games in the group ended in draws on the first matchday, with Turkey grabbing one point with a 1-1 draw in Croatia amid ongoing debates over coach Fatih Terim's squad selection. 

Cristiano Ronaldo has opened his second hotel in Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. Following the inauguration of his first hotel in his hometown of Madeira, the multimillionaire Real Madrid superstar expanded his business ventures in the hotel industry with the a 5-star accommodation called ‘Pestana CR7 Hotel’.

A Code Yellow warning has been issued for 16 of Bulgaria's 28 regions, the meteorology institute of the country has said.

The regions affected are comprise most of Northern Bulgaria, including Vidin, Montana, Vratsa, Pleven, Lovech, Gabrovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Ruse, Targoviste, Shumen, Razgrad, Silistra, Varna and Dobrich.