Munich  - Bayern Munich will be seeking an agreement to keep Franck Ribery at the club although the France international's contract still has more than two years to run.

General manager Uli Hoeness said Sunday Bayern wanted a long-term deal with the midfielder who helped Bayern win the league and cup double last season and whose form has revived their current season.

Ribery joined Bayern for a club-record fee of a reported 25 million euros from Olympique Marseille in June 2007 on a four-year contract.

"In six or 12 months we will be speaking about extending the contract," Hoeness said on DSF television.

London  - Portsmouth owner Alexandre Gaydamak confirmed on Sunday that he is keen to sell the club.

A South African consortium has been linked with a takeover, while a representative of Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov confirmed to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa he had been approached as a potential buyer by representatives acting for the Premier League club.

"I have come to realize over a period of time that I can no longer invest the time required to oversee the running of the club," Gaydamak told the Sunday Mirror.

Frankfurt  - Werder Bremen's Brazilian midfielder Diego is to be investigated by German football authorities for an incident in Saturday's 1-0 Bundesliga defeat to Karlsruhe.

Kolkata, Dec. 7 : Football legend Diego Maradona visited Missionaries of Charity Headquarters ''Mother House'', in Kolkata today.

Maradona said earlier that he had accepted the invitation to come to the city because he had a keen interest in seeing first hand the place where Mother Teresa had lived and worked.

Maradona accompanied by his girl friend was greeted by the Sisters of Missionaries of Charity (MOC) and later taken to Mother Teresa''s Tomb.

A huge crowd had gathered outside the Mother House to catch a glimpse of the football great and the newly appointed coach of the Argentina national football team.

Sydney  - Former battlefield foes Afghanistan and Russia will play in the final of the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne on Sunday.

Afghanistan beat Ghana in a penalty shoot out to take on 2006 champions Russia, which qualified by shunting aside reigning champions Scotland.

The tournament, which pits sides from 56 countries, is into its sixth year. Teams of four play 14-minute games on a pitch the size of a basketball court. Players must have been homeless since July 2007, be receiving help for drug or alcohol abuse or be seeking asylum.

In the women's division, where eight teams are competing, Zambia will take on Liberia in the final.

London, Dec 7 : Soccer ace Cristiano Ronaldo is dating a married woman, it has emerged.

Ukraine-born brunette Olena Haynes is the estranged wife of wealthy businessman John Haynes and the face of dating websites, which find beautiful Russian lovers for British men.

John, 50, branded the football ace a slimy toe-rag after discovering his wife and Ronaldo had sent each other more than 300 text messages.

John claims Olena was using a secret mobile he found stashed in their home.

He says Manchester United and Portugal star Ronaldo, 23, struck up a relationship with his wife in August.