Germany finally clicked into gear at the European Championship as France needed a second-half equaliser from Antoine Griezmann to avoid the biggest upset of the tournament.
Cristiano Ronaldo sent pulses racing in sponsors’ boardrooms when he removed two bottles of Coke from a press conference before Portugal’s 3-0 win over Hungary.
A Berlin football club with an unusual Australian link was worried it could lose its record for most Bundesliga games without a win.
"Thank God,"96-year-old Araceli Hidalgo said as she became the first person in Spain to be vaccinated."Let's see if we can make this virus go away."
The total of 72,112 tickets sold for Dresden's German Cup game against Darmstadt was more than double the capacity of Dresden's stadium.
Spain and Germany held on to claim uninspiring wins in the Nations League on Saturday,while Luxembourg and Montenegro also won their games.
Two goals inside the opening 20 minutes swiftly ended the fairytale of fourth-tier Saarbrucken as Leverkusen advanced to the July 4 decider in Berlin.
The German soccer season will resume this weekend with teams the first and second divisions playing matches for the first time in more than two months. Matches will be played behind closed doors with no fans allowed inside the stadiums.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced steps to ease the coronavirus lockdown,saying the first phase of the pandemic had passed but there was still a long way to go.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that caution is needed to fight coronavirus as the situation in the country is still fragile.
Germany has drawn up a list of steps,including mandatory mask-wearing in public,limits on gatherings,and the rapid tracing of infection chains,to help enable a phased return to normal life after its coronavirus lockdown is set to end on April 19.