Sporting briefs

Biggest game: Getafe's UEFA Cup quarter-final, second leg at home to Bayern Munich tomorrow is the modest club's biggest game ever, defender Cosmin Contra said. "Bayern are still the favourites even though we got a good result over there (1-1)," the Romanian said. "But we are going to give it all we've got for our fans... it's the biggest game in the club's history."

Emirates Cup: Real Madrid will participate in the Emirates Cup pre-season tournament at the Emirates Stadium on August 2-3, against Arsenal, Juventus and Hamburg, the Primera Liga club said.

Vucinic: Roma's Montenegro forward Mirko Vucinic said anger at last week's 2-0 Champions League quarter-final defeat by Manchester United will help the Serie A side in today's return leg at Old Trafford. "We are going to Manchester with the right spirit and sense of anger," Vucinic, who will take injured captain Francesco Totti's place in attack, told reporters. "We have a 50-50 chance of going through. It's always difficult to replace a champion like Totti. I'll try to give my all and do my job."

Berlusconi: Milan president Silvio Berlusconi has reiterated his interest in signing Barcelona forward Ronaldinho. "We are doing everything possible to bring Ronaldinho to Milan," Berlusconi told reporters. "He said that he's not going to any other club than the world champions (Milan). Ronaldinho would come to us because we have lots of his Brazilian companions and he knows that at Milan we treat everyone very well."

Closed doors: Bulgarian Premier League club Botev Plovdiv have been ordered to play their next home match behind closed doors after crowd violence marred their 2-1 defeat against bitter city rivals Lokomotiv on Saturday. Tenth-placed Botev, who will face Marek Dupnitsa in an empty stadium on Saturday, were also fined $2,421.

Nedved: Juventus midfielder Pavel Nedved has been given the all-clear by doctors to resume training after a nasty clash of heads in Sunday's 3-2 defeat at Palermo. The incident forced Nedved to spend a night in hospital, the club said.