FC Sevilla won a football match against Real Madrid FC at the Spanish league La Liga BBVA, with a score of 2-1 on Sunday, breaking Real Madrid’s 40-match lucky streak. The result remained all nil for the whole match, until Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal in minute 67, bringing the score to 1-0. In minute 85, Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos scored an own goal by mistake, as the result went to 1-1. Sevilla’s Stevan Jovetić surprised the crowd, by scoring a goal in minute 92, ending the match in Sevilla’s favour. Real Madrid had not lost the last 40 matches it played, until Sevilla came and broke its streak. Jovetić’s goal is a very significant one as he was recently loaned to the Spanish team of Sevilla. Montenegrin Jovetić has been playing for the Italian club of Internazionale.

Egypt lost to Denmark on Saturday at the IHF World Men’s Handball Championship 2017, ending the match with 35-28 in favour of the Danish team.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic delivered his most important goal yet for Manchester United as he sent Old Trafford wild with his 19th of the season in all competitions to salvage a 1-1 draw with their fiercest rivals Liverpool on Sunday.

Barcelona have dazzled at times in La Liga yet they head into Saturday's home game against Las Palmas in third position. Inconsistency has left Luis Enrique's team five points adrift of Real Madrid, who have a game in hand and face second-place Sevilla for the third time in 11 days in their La Liga game on Sunday.

El-Gouna will be host to the PSA Women’s World Squash Championship in April. The women’s world championship comes as the event organiser, Amr Mansi, plans to host a new squash competition in El-Gouna for women in the near future.

Zamalek striker Bassem Morsi abandoned Tuesday's morning session in response to the recent punishment imposed against him by the club's Management.

Messi and club captain Andres Iniesta are entering the final 18 months of their current deals at the Camp Nou meaning they would be free to talk to other clubs in a year's time if they don't extend their contracts in 2017. Despite posting a record turnover of 679 million euros ($719 million) last season, a series of expensive new contracts for the likes of Neymar and Luis Suarez mean Barcelona are close to overstepping the 70 percent limit of turnover spent on salaries imposed by UEFA's financial fair-play laws.

The Administrative Court on Tuesday accepted an appeal filed by the lawyer of former Al-Ahly football player Mohamed Abu Trika. The appeal effectively lifts the asset freeze imposed on the player in 2015. The government has yet to appeal the decision.

Critics of FIFA's decision Tuesday to expand the World Cup to 48 teams were quick to blast it as a politically and money-driven ploy that will be detrimental to football's showpiece tournament. But there was support -- particularly in Asia and Africa -- for FIFA president Gianni Infantino's expansion plan, unanimously approved by FIFA's ruling council and to be implemented at the 2026 World Cup.

Barcelona striker Luis Suarez insists the Catalans are "obliged" to chase down Real Madrid at the top of La Liga, despite losing more ground on the European champions in a 1-1 draw at Villarreal on Sunday. Even a fabulous last minute Lionel Messi free-kick couldn't prevent Barca falling five points behind Madrid, who also have a game in hand, after Nicola Sansone had put Villarreal in front just after halftime.

On Monday, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received international football player Mohamed Salah, in the presence of Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Khaled Abdel Aziz. Presidency spokesperson Alaa Youssef stated that during the meeting, Al-Sisi stressed the role the country plays to support sports, as it is an important factor to invest and utilise the youths’ energy in useful areas to benefit them and Egypt.

The 2017 Qatar ExxonMobil Tennis Open held in Doha, Qatar, concluded its events on Saturday. Egypt and Qatar were the only two Arab countries that participated in the tournament.

Egypt and Ahly defender Rami Rabia has announced he will be out of action for two months after picking up a serious ankle injury in training ahead of 2-0 win over Zamalek in the Cairo derby last week.

Zamalek playmaker Ayman Hefny will be sidelined for three weeks due to a groin muscle tear he sustained in the team's match with Ahly on 29 December. "Hefny's injury is new. He was fully recovered from a strain in the same muscle but he picked up a new one," Zamalek doctor Mostafa El-Monairy told the club's official website on Thursday.

The 2017 African Cup of Nations, considered as the third most important football competition after the FIFA World Cup and Euro Cup, will be held in Gabon from January to February. The African competition will affect many English Premier League clubs whose some of their players will be absent for up to five weeks as they try to win the competition with their countries.

Zamalek chairman Mortada Mansour has confirmed that coach Mohamed Helmi will remain in his post and will not leave. "Some changes will be made in the technical staff but Helmi agreed to continue as manager, Mansour stated through the club's official website Wednesday.

The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) decided Tuesday to refer the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa Hayatou, to the general prosecution after it claimed to have proven that Hayatou violated the Protection of Competition Act.

Nigeria's former winger Emmanuel Amunike has officially asked to take charge of his former club Zamalek, the Egyptian club's chairman Mortada Mansour revealed Monday night.

The President Golden Cup International Squash Tournament began on Tuesday in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

Ahly will renew the contracts of veteran duo Emad Meteb and Hossam Ghaly according to the Cairo giants head coach Hossam El-Badry.

Zamalek coach Mohamed Helmi promises club fans to compensate the recent loss to rivals Ahly by winning both the Egyptian Premier League and Egypt Super Cup titles.