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It will probably come as no surprise that
there are more Brazilian footballers registered to play in
the Champions League than any other nationality – 98 of the 770-odd players in the present edition of Europe’s elite club competition ...
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John Arne Riise’s astonishing own goal seems to
have given Chelsea the edge in the first Champions
League semi-final. Liverpool’s Norwegian defender bent down to spectacularly head in deep into injury time and leave the scores at ...
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It is difficult to exaggerate just how big
a blow it is for Real Madrid to stumble
out of the Champions League in the first knockout round for a fourth year in a row. The club measures its success not in terms of league titles but of its nine ...
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Fans of sporting clichés may well have to
find a new term for the “ group of
death “ by the time the draw for Euro 2008 has been made, a week on Sunday in Lucerne. Group of mayhem, anyone? If Germany and the Netherlands seemed far ...
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South Africa should be feeling pretty confident after
passing its first big World Cup test but the
uninspiring form of the national team is getting a lot of people anxious. The 2010 World Cup organisers were given a resounding thumbs-up after the ...
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“They’ll be really happy about this in Madrid,”
Barcelona sporting director Txiki Begiristain said after news Lionel
Messi would miss this weekend’s “clasico” against Real because of a torn thigh muscle. But ...
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Remember those kids at school who were good
at everything, who represented the county at football, cricket,
athletics, chess and country dancing? Well watching Cristiano Ronaldo parade his incomparable box of skills reminds me of the injustice of ...
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The African Nations Cup is growing too big
for its own good, if the chaos surrounding the
organisation in Ghana at the start of this year’s event is anything to go by. With a larger cast of internationally recognisable stars and the teams ...
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It was with more than the usual haste
that I strode off from the Nou Camp after
Frank Rijkaard’s customary non-committal news conference on the eve of Barcelona’s Champions League match against Schalke on Tuesday. Liverpool against ...
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Every World Cup is special with its own
unique atmosphere and I am not just quoting from
the FIFA good news catalogue here, I am talking from experience. I first saw a World Cup match as youngster in 1966 and have covered the last seven since ...
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Rarely can a simple tap-in have meant so
much to a player. The picture here on the
right is of Ivan Klasnic , his head bowed in joy and disbelief, after scoring his first goal since undergoing two kidney transplant operations early this year. The ...
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German soccer blogs are not a place I
usually go to for a story about religion, but
an interesting one has popped up on the forum of the Eintracht Frankfurt team. The team let its fans vote over the Internet late last year to pick a 2008/2009 season ...
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What next for Riquelme? Villarreal have not given
him a single minute of action this season. Argentina
have fielded him in all three of the World Cup qualifiers so far and he has responded with four goals, three of them from sublime free kicks . ...
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Not a day goes past in Spain without
one of the sports papers, radio or TV programmes
holding a debate about whether Raul should be recalled to the national side. A former national team captain, winner of over 100 caps and his country’s ...
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Toronto-born, of Jamaican and Filipino descent, Jonathan de
Guzmán is a veritable citizen of the world, and
even more so after this month receiving his Dutch passport . The Feyenoord midfielder is a prodigious talent who should be picked for ...
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The last 16 of the UEFA Cup doesn’t
look half bad. Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich, who boast
two of Europe’s form players in Luca Toni and Franck Ribery, qualified after thrashing Aberdeen 7-3 on aggregate and now meet ...
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A month ago Real Madrid looked invincible as
they opened up a nine-point lead at the top
of the Primera Liga on the back of an eight-match winning streak in the league. But the wheels have come off the bandwagon recently, starting with an ...
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When Pierluigi Collina reached the Italian referee retirement
age a few years back, there was talk of
bringing him to England so he could officiate a bit longer and boost the standard. The idea of the bald great going eyeball to eyeball with ...
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Brazilian club Vasco da Gama have become the
latest to complain about European sides trying to sign
their best young players . Last week, Vasco president Eurico Miranda accused Real Madrid of approaching 15-year-old Philippe Coutinho. Madrid have yet ...
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Bayern Munich could win the Bundesliga championship this
weekend without even kicking a ball. With a 12-point
lead over Werder Bremen and Schalke 04 and four matches left, Bayern — who don’t play again until visiting VfL Wolfsburg ...
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