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Spain regain top slot in this month's Fifa world rankings. Brazil are second followed by the Netherlands, Italy and Portugal. England are in 9th place. Argentina are 8th. France are in 7th after Thierry Henry handed them victory in their World Cup play off encounter with Ireland in Paris. ...
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Thierry Henry's blatent handball has caused a wave of consternation in the blogosphere and further calls for the introduction of video technology. Tags Thierry Henry World Cup
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All 32 teams for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa are now known. The complete line up is: Europe Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland Africa Algeria, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Ghana, Nigeria, ...
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With most attention on the exploits of Pohang Steelers in the Asian Champions League and the national team’s friendly matches in Europe against Denmark and Serbia, the fact that the K-League is about to embark upon its championship play-off series has almost gone unnoticed. Six teams are still ...
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Korea
A single goal is all that separates the sides heading into Wednesday’s second leg in Montevideo after Costa Rica and Uruguay played out a well fought battle in San Jose. It was Uruguay’s captain fantastic Diego Lugano who grabbed the games only goal and gave his team the perfect platform to ...
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The four play-off games in the European qualification zone were all tight affairs with all left to play for in the second legs. France edged Ireland 1-0 at Croke Park in Dublin with a second half Nicolas Anelka goal. In Lisbon, a Bruno Alves strike gives the Portuguese a slight advantage ahead ...
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Before the largest crowd in New Zealand football history, New Zealand beat Bahrain 1-0 to qualify for the 2010 World Cup , Over 35,000 fans packed into Wellington's Westpac Stadium to see the All Whites reach the World Cup finals for the first time since 1982. Plymouth Argyle striker Rory Fallon ...
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Saturday sees the penultimate day of World Cup qualifers with nine of the 32 places still up for grab. Already qualified HOSTS: South Africa AFRICA: Ghana, Ivory Coast ASIA: Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea EUROPE: Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovakia, ...
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Continental’s New ContiFan Competition Gives Fans Chance to Win Tickets to 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Continental Tyres, Official Sponsor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, is offering fans the chance to win a fantastic trip to South Africa complete with World Cup tickets in their new ContiFanContest ...
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It is almost two years since the South Korean national team last ventured outside the borders of Asia. This weekend sees the Taeguk Warriors in Europe for the first of two 2010 World Cup warm-up matches against tough opposition. Saturday sees the team in Denmark and then four days later; Huh ...
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There are three teams left in the J. League title race after Shimizu S-Pulse and FC Tokyo both dropped out of the running following the latest round of fixtures. A Renatinho hat-trick propelled Kawasaki Frontale to a 3-2 win over relegated JEF United in a thriller watched by 18,470 fans at ...
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The economics of the game in South America demand that the region’s best players spend the prime of their careers in Europe.
Fans of even the most prestigious clubs such as Boca Juniors and Flamengo must savour watching their young prospects because as soon as they demonstrate an ...
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Kaka
Clinging to the rickety banisters I walked slowly up the seemingly endless winding staircase before climbing onto the roof of the Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourviere. The guide directed us down a narrow passageway which led onto an overhanging balcony that can’t have been designed for touring ...
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FC Tokyo have been crowned 2009 Yamazaki Nabisco League Cup champions after beating Kawasaki Frontale 2-0 in the final in Tokyo on November 3. Before a sell-out crowd of 44,308 fans at a packed National Stadium, teenage midfielder Takeuji Yonemoto opened the scoring with a swerving long-range ...
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Pohang Steelers are just 90 minutes away from making soccer history. On Saturday night, the team from Gyeongsang province could become the most successful club in Asia – ever. The South Koreans, who won the 1997 and 1998 editions, meet Saudi Arabia’s Al Ittihad in Tokyo in the final of the Asian ...
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Tottenham Hotspur revealed plans for a 56,000-seat rebuilding of White Hart Lane this week. An undoubted step forward for Spurs, even if the undulating roof-line is a little unoriginal and redolent of Arsenal's new gaff down the Seven Sisters road. Ashburton Grove's extra capacity means Arsenal ...
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Arsenal
All the colour of the Japanese Yamazaki Nabisco League Cup final will descend upon the National Stadium in Tokyo on November 3, with this year's showpiece event set to be an all-local affair. FC Tokyo have reached their first League Cup final since 2004, with Hiroshi Jofuku's team winning ...
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The latest instalment of Buenos Aires’ Superclasico did little to give fans of River Plate or Boca Juniors hope of an quick upturn in fortunes for either ofArgentina’s traditional footballing superpowers.
The 1-1 draw was played out with the trademark tenacity and tempo the ...
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New football book titles out this month include We Are The Damned United , another take on Brian Clough's ill-fated stay at Leeds in the 70s, written as a response to David Peace's classic The Damned Utd and an autobiography of BBC football commentator John Motson Motty: Forty Years in the ...
