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Participating in a European Championship for the third time after 1988 and 2012, Ireland has yet to make it past the group stage.

Roy Hodgson's England secured their place in the last 16 of Euro 2016, but lost their status as Group B winners, after being held to a goalless draw by Slovakia on Monday.

Iceland's Birkir Savarsson directed the ball into his own net to let Hungary steal a 1-1 draw in their Euro 2016 Group F game on Saturday.

FC Pune City signed up Rahul Bheke on loan from Kingfisher East Bengal Football Club for the 2016 edition of the league.Bheke, a defender, will become FC Pune City’s first signing from their region.

The Swiss, seeking to advance to the knock-out stages of the Euros for the first time, were efficient in defeating debutants Albania 1-0.

Dutchman Ronald Koeman became the new manager of English Premier League club Everton on Tuesday after his previous club Southampton reluctantly agreed to release him a year early from his contract.

A dominant England conceded a stoppage-time equaliser in the 1-1 stalemate in Marseille after Wales had beaten 2-1 Slovakia in Bordeaux earlier on Saturday to move top of Group B.

The Czech Republic qualified ahead of Iceland, Turkey and the Netherlands and Pavel Vrba has every member of his squad -- including captain Tomas Rosicky -- fit for Monday's match.

The world body said the fighting fans "have nothing to do with football and its true fans."

The English Football Association, whose fans fled the stadium in Marseille after being attacked by a large group of Russian fans, has not been charged by UEFA.

Johan Venegas and Celso Borges each scored and Costa Rica benefited from an own goal by Colombia in a 3-2 upset victory to wrap up Group A play in the Copa America.

VR Raghunath, Mandeep Singh and Harmanpreet scored for India but Germany made a brilliant comeback in the fourth quarter to play a draw in London.

Mexico attacked in waves but couldn't find a way through and were caught on the break on 65 minutes when Donaldson took the ball into the area only to be cut down by Yasser Corona.

Injuries restricted the 28-year-old, Darron Gibson to 11 appearances in all competitions for Everton last season, and he has also missed out on representing his country at the European Championship this month.

The three-day sale of memorabilia belonging to world football icon Pele ended in London on Thursday with the artefacts sold for the princely total of £3.4million ($5million, 4.4million euros).

Agger played 75 matches for Denmark over 11 years, and scored 12 times. Denmark didn't qualify for the European Championship which starts on Friday. He played in the 2010 World Cup and 2012 European Championship.