Former Italian World Cup winner &amp; Juventus' stopper&nbsp;Gianluigi Buffon&nbsp;has signed a contract extension with the Turin based club which will keep him on the pitch till 2021. The new deal comes at the age of 42 as Juventus&nbsp;offered an extension to veteran captain Giorgio Chiellini&nbsp;as well. Chiellini&nbsp;has been an old warhorse for Juventus&nbsp;and has been on the roster for the past 15 years in Turin. Buffon, on the other hand,&nbsp;has played for Juventus&nbsp;since 2001 apart from a single season with Paris St Germain in 2018.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Former Italian World Cup winner & Juventus' stopper Gianluigi Buffon has signed a contract extension with the Turin based club which will keep him on the pitch till 2021. The new deal comes at the age of 42 as Juventus offered an extension to veteran captain Giorgio Chiellini as well. Chiellini has been an old warhorse for Juventus and has been on the roster for the past 15 years in Turin. Buffon, on the other hand, has played for Juventus since 2001 apart from a single season with Paris St Germain in 2018.

It now seems to be a never-ending&nbsp;story as Gareth Bale continues to warm the bench in La Liga. The winger&nbsp;was left out for full 90 minutes in Real Madrid's 2-1 win over Granada.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Welsh international&nbsp;has started just 12 games this season and has not featured in any of Real's last 4 matches. Moreover,&nbsp;Bale has only played 12 minutes since the return of Spanish football in June. Like most seasons, talks of his stay at Real Madrid coming to an end are dong the rounds this time around as well.&nbsp;Real boss Zinedine Zidane wants to sell the winger this summer, but it is believed that Bale isn&rsquo;t prepared to drop his massive 390,000 euros a week salary. According to reports,&nbsp;he is ready to sit out till his contract expires in the summer of 2022.

13 out of the 17 professional football teams in Colombia&nbsp;have returned with positive Covid-19 tests as the local football association has now paused the plans to restart the season which has been on hold since March. A total of 41 results came out as positive as the teams scampered to get their premises sanitised by the government health officials. All the top club local clubs have been affected as the restart now appears to be postponed yet again. Colombia has seen over 1,50,000 positive cases and over 5000 deaths but experts in the South American nation are predicting a sharp rise in the cases in days to come.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Brazilian football club&nbsp;Chapecoense&nbsp;on Monday was hit by 14 new Covid-19 cases as the stadium, training grounds and all the facilities were locked after getting disinfected. The locker rooms, gym, medical and physiotherapy departments and media area were vaporised&nbsp;by medical personnel as the club is now shut once again. The&nbsp;team&nbsp;was scheduled to play on Sunday in the quarterfinals of a state championship but the match was cancelled after the positive results. The entire tournament was also suspended indefinitely after&nbsp;Chapecoense's striker Roberto was admitted to a hospital. Brazil has seen nearly 2 million cases and over 72,000 deaths as its the 2nd worst affected nation after the United States.&nbsp;

German side Borussia&nbsp;Dortmund's 19-year-old starlet Erling Haaland&nbsp;was thrown out of a local nightclub in Norway. According to the local press, Haaland&nbsp;who is a heartthrob of many in Norway was asked to leave the nightclub as far too many fans wanted to take pictures with the footballer. As a result, the nightclub owners worried about the social distancing between the guests had asked Haaland&nbsp;to leave the premises.&nbsp;

Real Madrid&nbsp;are just 1 win away from winning their 34th La Liga&nbsp;title after they beat a spirited Granada 2-1 to extend their lead to 4 points over 2nd placed Barcelona.&nbsp;Ferland Mendy&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Karim Benzema&nbsp;were on target as Zinedine&nbsp;Zidane's&nbsp;men put up a clinical show to dismiss Granada. With 2 games left to be played in the season, Real Madrid needs to register a win to guarantee themselves their 34th La Liga&nbsp;title. The Spanish giants next play Villarreal on Thursday and can seal their triumph with 3 points as this could be their first league title since 2017.&nbsp;

A late injury-time equaliser from Southampton was enough to dent Manchester United's top 4 aspirations as the Red Devils were held to a crucial 2-2 draw at the Old Trafford. After falling behind early, Ole Gunnar Solkjaer's men fought back strongly and scored twice in the space of 5 minutes to overcome the early goal. The 2nd half too proved to be a dull affair as both teams failed to convert any chances and it looked like Manchester United would gather 3 points. But a moment of madness with the last play of the game, Southampton&nbsp;buried in an equaliser in the 96th min. With the draw, United is 5th on the table behind&nbsp;Leicester City on goal difference.&nbsp;

The Court of Arbitration&nbsp;for Sport on Monday confirmed that Manchester City will not be banned from European competition after the club's successful appeal to the highest court for sports in the world. Earlier the court found the English club guilty of&nbsp;breaching Financial Fair Play regulations and banned them from competing in Europe for 2 years with a 30 million euro fine. The fine is now reduced to 10 million euros and the Citizens are now allowed to compete in European football competitions again.&nbsp;

On Sunday Premier League club Crystal Palace's forward Wilfried&nbsp;Zaha&nbsp;took to his social media account to share screenshots of&nbsp;a series of racist messages and Ku Klux&nbsp;Klan pictures sent to him on his twitter handle. The messages that were sent before the club's match against Aston Villa were sent by a 12-year-old Aston Villa fan. The boy was later arrested after Villa registered a 2-1 win against Crystal Palace. While the age of criminal responsibility in England is 10 years, Aston Villa has openly condemned the fan and has issued a lifetime ban against him.&nbsp;

Premier League giants Arsenal suffered a humiliating North London derby loss to rivals Tottenham&nbsp;at home. The Gunners did everything right for the opening 15 minutes as they started the game with a goal from&nbsp;Alexandre Lacazette&nbsp;at the Emirates. Son Heung&nbsp;Min replied for the Spurs&nbsp;as the equaliser came just a couple of minutes later. It looked like both teams would settle with a point each till late in the 2nd half. Toby&nbsp;Alderweireld&nbsp;gave Jose Mourinho's men the winner in the 81st minute which also guaranteed all 3 points for 8th placed Spurs. For Arsenal, it was a result to forget as they slipped to 9th in the Premier League and with 3 games left to be played, Mikel&nbsp;Arteta's&nbsp;men will be desperate to finish inside top 8 to play in the Europa&nbsp;League.&nbsp;

Premier League champions Liverpool dropped points at home for the first time in the season after Burnley&nbsp;held them to a hard-fought 1-1 draw. After Andrew Robertson put the home side ahead in the 34th minute, Burnley&nbsp;fought back through Jay Rodriguez&nbsp;in the 2nd half. Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp's&nbsp;men got plenty of chances but failed to convert as Burnley's defence looked ruthless and clinical especially in the last 30 mins of play. The 1-1 draw forced Liverpool to share points as their ambitions of beating Manchester City's record of 100 points in a season gets tougher. Liverpool needs to win all three remaining games to better the mark as Burnley&nbsp;climbed to 9th on the points table.&nbsp;

Chelsea suffered an embarrassing&nbsp;loss in the Premier League as they lost to a rampant Sheffield United.&nbsp;David McGoldrick&nbsp;scored twice for Sheffield who is having a dream season along with&nbsp;Oliver McBurnie&nbsp;who scored the 3rd goal. Chelsea's loss comes at a very crucial juncture of the competition as they may slip out of the top 4 and a possible&nbsp;Champions League berth due to this loss. With 60 points from 35 games, Chelsea is 3rd on the table but are 1 point ahead of Leicester City and 2 ahead of Manchester United who both have got a game in hand.&nbsp;

On Friday German football league Bundesliga&nbsp;further&nbsp;pushed back the start of the 2020-21 season by four weeks due to the global pandemic. Earlier the season was scheduled to begin from August 21st, but as per the new schedule, the season will now start from September 18th and will end on May 22. Officials have also halved the Bundesliga&nbsp;winter break which is now only a fortnight-long, starting from December 20 until Jan 3, 2021. The decision has been taken&nbsp;to duly finish the season before the European Championship starts, which is slated to begin from June next year.&nbsp;

Court of Arbitration for Sports announced that the English football&nbsp;club Manchester City will get their verdict for the 2-year ban from UEFA&nbsp;competition on Monday. While a full-written verdict will be published later, the verdict will only include important details of the hearing held from June 8th to 10th via video links. Earlier this year in February,&nbsp;UEFA&nbsp;slapped Manchester City with a 2-year ban from all its competition and a fine of 30 million euros for breaching the Financial Fair Play rules. If the club fails to overturn the ban on Monday, its place in this season's Champions League will remain unaffected.&nbsp;

Real Madrid registered a 2-0 win by beating&nbsp;Alaves&nbsp;as they&nbsp;registered their club's 8th straight&nbsp;win.&nbsp;Benzema's&nbsp;11th-minute&nbsp;penalty and Marco Asensio's&nbsp;goal were the two goals scored by Zinedine&nbsp;Zidane's&nbsp;men who didn't have the services of Sergio Ramos&nbsp;and&nbsp;Dani Carvajal&nbsp;due to suspension and Marcelo due to an injury. But that didn't deter the Madrid based club as they kept a tight defence in the absence of 3 1st choice defenders. 3 points on the night meant that Real Madrid has extended their lead on top of the table to 4 points. With&nbsp;3 games left in the competition, leaders Real&nbsp;Madrid&nbsp;&amp; challengers&nbsp;Barcelona are expected to put up an interesting fight.&nbsp;

English professional footballer Jordan Henderson has been ruled out of the remaining Premier League season after he suffered a knee injury while playing against Brighton on Wednesday. Liverpool manager Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp&nbsp;during the announcement said that&nbsp;while the club's skipper will recover without a surgery,&nbsp;Klopp&nbsp;optimistically&nbsp;said that Henderson will be fit for the start of next season. Liverpool may have been out of this year's Champions League and the FA Cup but Henderson will miss the club's final four Premier league fixtures but Klopp&nbsp;confirmed that he will be available for lifting the Premier League trophy on July 22.

UEFA Champions League last 16 draws were out on Friday.&nbsp;Since the second leg matches are not over yet, it will be either Real Madrid or Manchester City taking on Lyon or Juventus&nbsp;in the first quarter-final.&nbsp;RB Leipzig will take on Atletico&nbsp;Madrid in quarter-final 2. The 3rd quarter-final will see either Napoli&nbsp;or Barcelona locking horns with Chelsea or Bayern&nbsp;Munich. While Paris Saint-Germain&nbsp;will take on American club Atlanta in the 4th and final quart-final. As revealed by UEFA, this season's quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will be played as a straight knockout tournament in Portugal in August.&nbsp;

Atl&eacute;tico de Kolkata&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mohun Bagan&nbsp;which announced their merger in January, will be called&nbsp;ATK Mohun Bagan FC from now on. The board also decided to retain&nbsp;the iconic green and maroon jersey, while the logo will feature the iconic Mohun Bagan boat with addition of 'ATK' to it. Principal Owner&nbsp;of the club Sanjiv Goenka in a statement said that the culture and tradition which has made the brand a household name has been preserved and the logo retains its essence.&nbsp;The club also announced its plans to build a world class football academy in Bengal and to refurbish the existing Mohun Bagan facility so that ISL and AFC home games can be held there.

Dutch football federation has confirmed that they will allow some fans in the stadium when the new season of the Eredivisie&nbsp;starts in September. About 15-35% of the stadium will be occupied with fans who will have to maintain strict social distancing and will always have to wear masks. The fans won't be allowed to chant and will only buy food and beverage from the sellers in the stands. The 2019-20 season of the&nbsp;Eredivisie&nbsp;was abandoned with no title being&nbsp;awarded and the new season will start from September.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Spanish football club Real Madrid's winger Vinicius&nbsp;Jr will undergo another Covid-19 test after an error in the previous one. Club's manager Zinedine&nbsp;Zidane&nbsp;confirmed to the press that the doctors have asked for the test to be repeated as it came out wrong. Zidane&nbsp;added that the result was not negative or positive but there seemed to be an error in the test. Spanish footballers need to undergo continuous tests since the league restarted last month. Till date, no player has tested positive after the restart apart from a couple of footballers from Valencia and Alaves&nbsp;who had a positive result in March.&nbsp;

MLS&nbsp;is Back football tournament&nbsp;got another big&nbsp;blow when Nashville pulled out of the competition after its nine players tested positive for coronavirus. Nashville is the 2nd team after Dallas FC to pull out due to rising infection cases in the team. Interestingly, Nashville travelled to Orlando&nbsp;to play the restart tournament but couldn't train due to the positive test results and will now head back home.&nbsp;

New 1-year contract for 42-year old Buffon&nbsp;at Juventus&nbsp;

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