Saint-Etienne, France  - German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen on Wednesday became the first club through to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup after holding French side St Etienne 2-2 on the night to advance 3-2 on aggregate.

St Etienne, who last season finished fifth in the French first division, but this season have slipped down into the relegation zone, rested several key players including Paul Machado.

Coach Alain Perrin explained before the game that the club's priority had to be the fight against relegation.

Berlin  - Two German Bundesliga players have been spoken to by police in connection with a late-night incident in Berlin in which several cars were damaged, it was reported Wednesday.

According to Berlin's Morgenpost Online, the players from Hertha Berlin and Borussia Dortmund were seen scratching at least one car and damaging the wing mirrors of five others.

Police confirmed "an incident" in the early hours of Wednesday morning in the district of Wilmersdorf.

Bremen, Germany  - Werder Bremen's Diego has confirmed that other clubs are interested in enticing the midfielder away from the German Bundesliga club at the end of the season.

"I have been here for three years and have another two years to

run on my contract. Offers have been made for me," the Brazilian said in an interview published in Wednesday's Die Welt newspaper.

"Either I'll stay or I'll go but I won't know which until after the season ends."

Rome - A Genoa fan who a month ago was run over by a coach carrying visiting Fiorentina supporters has left the intensive care unit, but remains in hospital and unable to speak, La Gazzetta dello Sport reported Wednesday.

Gabriele Amato, 36, was among a group of people who on February 15 surrounded a coach carrying visiting fans as it left the Genoa stadium.

Some home fans were enraged after Fiorentina clinched a last-gasp 3-3 draw after coming from three goals down.

Munich - Argentina defender Martin Demichelis has agreed a new three-year contract at German champions Bayern Munich, club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was reported Wednesday as saying.

Demichelis, 28, who has been at Bayern since 2003, has been offered a deal keeping him at the club until the end of the 2011/2012 season.

"We have agreed in principle on a contract extension. Martin is staying," Rummenigge was quoted as saying by the Munich newspaper tz.

London, Mar. 18: David Beckham may don the Real Madrid shirt this summer if Florentino Perez becomes the club’s president again.

“Florentino will try to bring Becks back if he decides to run for presidency. It would be silly to deny it,” The Telegraph quoted a top Madrid source, as saying.

It was Perez who bought the star footballer from Manchester United for 24million pounds in 2003, and with Perez emerging as the favourite contender for the presidency it shouldn’t be a surprise to see Bekham with a Madrid logo on his chest.