Former Liverpool and England national team captain, Steven Gerrard finally decided to end his playing career at the age of 36 after spending his last few years playing at Major League Soccer with LA Galaxy.

Italy international defender, Matteo Darmian continue to get call up for Gli Azzurri despite not getting much playing time so far at his club Manchester United. Answering media questions regarding his low amount of start with Man United under Jose Mourinho this season, Darmian stated that he doesn't really know the reason for it.

Just it was being expected by Italian media, Paolo Maldini apparently has rejected the offer to join Milan's management board under new Chinese ownership. Maldini who was being offered the Technical Director post stated that he doesn't quite agree with his role in that position, questioning about the decision making situation with the CEO and other director.

Goalkeeper position is definitely essential in football as they're the last man that protect every teams' goal from opponents' attacking players. Although they might not be appreciated as highly as strikers, but since back then up till now, there are always shot stoppers that received wide acknowledgement such as the list provided by Frontsmother.

Gianluigi Donnarumma's fast career leap ever since his debut for AC Milan last season have attracted many attention from other clubs with Real Madrid reportedly being the latest to show an interest.

AC Milan suffered a disappointing 4-2 defeat in their second Serie A fixture against Napoli, but that thrilling tie was largely affected by two sending offs of Rossoneri players. Milan head coach, Vincenzo Montella highlighted his players lack of cool heads, which puts their competitiveness in that game disturbed heavily.

Following Juventus and AS Roma's victory on Saturday, Italian Serie A offer a much more entertaining stuff during Sunday fixtures as AC Milan and Lazio escaped thrilling tie while Inter Milan were beaten.

Turkey are set to play their opening Euro 2016 fixture this Sunday, a potentially tricky match as they have to face the dangerous Croatia side. The Crescent-Stars' head coach, Fatih Terim was not shy on admitting that he has nothing but respect for Croatia, but Turkey will not be targeting any other than victory on that tie.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a well known player who has won may titles at club level, but he will be facing different kind of test with his national side, Sweden in the upcoming Euro 2016.

Getting selected into France's Euro 2016 squad in place of Raphael Varane, apparently changed Adil Rami's value of Les Blues manager, Didier Deschamps. Rami who previously shouted out his critics towards Deschamps, has now changed his stance stating that the mistake was on the defender side.

Italian striker, Mario Balotelli can't seem to stop making controversial comment as he recently admitted that he isn't keen on returning back to Liverpool next season. Balotelli is currently on loan from The Reds at AC Milan and the forward revealed his hope in staying with Rossoneri next season instead of coming back.

The merry-go-around regarding AC Milan's coaching role continue this season as despite only having seven matches left in Serie A, Rossoneri opted to sack Sinisa Mihajlovic. As it was confirmed via their official site, Milan revealed that they have parted ways with the former Sampdoria tactician and selected Cristian Brocchi as replacement.