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Fourth Round of FA Cup due to begin
The fourth round of the 2014 Chinese FA Cup is set to begin on Wednesday and Thursday.
There are eight matches in total.
Among the Wednesday games, Qingdao Zhongneng will face Hongzhou Green City, and Guangzhou Fuli will play against Shangdong Luneng.
On Thursday, Henan Jianye will take on Guangzhou Evergrande
Dunga is close to being named Brazil coach for the second time
Former World Cup winning captain Dunga is the favourite on a shortlist of candidates to replace Luiz Felipe Scolari as Brazil's national coach.
A new coach will be named soon.
Dunga previously coached Brazil from 2006 to 2010, where he won the 2007 Copa America and the 2009 Confederations Cup
He was fired by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) after losing to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup.
As coach of Brazil's national team, he led the team to 42 victories, 12 draws and six defeats.
Scolari has resigned as coach after the 2014 tournament where the hosts entered as hot favourites but finished fourth.
They were also humiliated by eventual champions Germany 7-1 in the semi-finals and then lost the third-place playoff 3-0 to the Netherlands.
Colombia midfielder James Rodriguez to move to Real Madrid
Real Madrid is close to sealing a deal to sign Colombia midfielder James Rodriguez from Monaco.
Rodriguez scored six goals for Colombia to claim the golden boot at the 2014 World Cup.
Rodriguez only joined Monaco last summer for 44 million euros from Porto but his performance in Brazil has attracted European champions Real, which is expected to pay anything between 75 million and 85 million euros to buy the rights to the 22-year-old.
In other action,
Patrice Evra has completed a 1.2 million pounds move to Juventus from Manchester United.
The French left-back, 33, has signed a two-year contract with the Italian champions, ending his eight-and-a-half-year stint at Old Trafford.
Evra would have been competing for a starting berth next season against ?27m signing, Luke Shaw.
Evra has made 379 appearances for United and enjoyed some Premier League success.
He was part of the French squad at the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil.
Cristiano Ronaldo speaks about the upcoming season
Cristiano Ronaldo has reassured his club ahead of the new season.
There are fears over his knee injury, but Ronaldo says he is eager to allay those concerns.
"My injury is gone, I feel very very good and I wanna start the league and the final in good and good shape. And I will try my best for whole of the season like I do it every year. I try to be the best and try to help my team, try to score goals and try to win the titles. This is my goal for every season to prepare myself for 100 % and for me, every season is the challenge. So, I want to be good. "
Ronaldo is on a promotional tour of Japan.
This is his second visit to Japan following his tour to the country in 2008 when Manchester United, then his team, participated in the FIFA Club World Cup.
The Portugal captain had some words of encouragement for a boy who wants to become a professional football player.
"My big message for this boy, is believe in your capacities. Work hard and dedicate yourself one hundred per cent and dream. Believe all the time, believe this is going to be possible."
He is scheduled to continue traveling in Japan to hold further promotional events.
Rafael Nadal tries his hand at poker in Porto Cristo
Rafael Nadal has been relaxing before heading to the United States for the start of the hard court season. Lately, he's been playing poker at his home in Mallorca.
Nadal has admitted he doesn't like to bluff, and he says that when his tennis career is over he could see himself joining the poker tour, maybe even playing in the World Series of Poker.
Following his loss on the grass to Nick Kyrgios in the fourth round at Wimbledon, Nadal has started training for the hard court season.
Nadal will make his return next month in Canada where he begins a three-tournament title defence (Canada, Cincinnati, US Open).
McCallum scores 29, Kings win summer league title
Ray McCallum scored 29 points and helped key a big Sacramento Kings rally in the final minutes, leading the Kings to top the Houston Rockets 77-68 to win the NBA Summer League championship game.
The Kings went 6-1 at Las Vegas, and McCallum more than saved his best for last.
He scored a total of 55 points in his first six games in the tournament, then connected on 9 of 15 shots from the floor in the title game.
Nick Johnson scored 17 for the Rockets.
The league All-Star teams was announced after Sunday's semifinals.
Washington's Glen Rice Jr. has been voted MVP.
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