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David Beckham's debut for AC Milan in a friendly match in Dubai has left Bayern Munich general manager Uli Hoeness far from impressed.
Hoeness on Wednesday likened the match on Tuesday against SV Hamburg, in which Beckham played the first 45 minutes, to a Hollywood production.
He said the Dubai Football Challenge match had made him...
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One of the few positive stories coming out of war- torn Iraq in recent years has been the success of their national football teams.
Since 2003, when the country sent an under-23 team to the Asian Cup and managed to qualify for the quarter-finals, Iraqi teams have been grabbing their fair share of international headlines.
In 2004,...
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When South Africa was awarded the right to host the 2010 World Cup football officials in the country embarked on an ambitious plan.
Not only did they want to ensure that the World Cup itself would be a huge success, they also wanted to make sure that they would be able to field a strong team at the showpiece of international...
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New Zealand's All Whites see 2009 as their most important year since the national team reached the World Cup finals 26 years ago, an achievement that gave them their highest ever FIFA ranking of 47th.
After slumping to a record low ranking of 156th last year, New Zealand have risen to 54th after five wins in five games in a successful...
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State-run China Central Television, the country's main national broadcaster, has suspended its live coverage of the Chinese Super League after the latest in a series of scandals to hit the ailing league, reports said on Tuesday.
A mass brawl at the end of last Wednesday's match between Beijing Guo'an and Tianjin Kangshifu was...
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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday dismissed its national team coach Geoff Lawson.
"His contract has been terminated with immediate effect and he is being given three months' salary as compensation," a PCB spokesman, Raza Rashid, said.
The former Australian pace bowler, Lawson, was appointed Pakistan coach in July...
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A mixture of optimistic sunshine - and of dark pessimistic clouds - have marked Josep Guardiola's first 100 days as coach of FC Barcelona.
On the bright side, the former 1990s "Dream Team" captain - aged just 37 and without much coaching experience - has introduced a renewed sense of optimism and expectation into a club that...
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Olympic 1,500m champion Rashid Ramzi is likely to withdraw from the 5,000m race, the Bahraini delegation announced on Wednesday.
The Moroccan-born athlete, who now runs for Bahrain, beat Kenyan runner Asbel Kiprop on Tuesday night to win the gold medal for the 1,500m in a time of 3 minutes 32.94 seconds. He was due to run in...
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Brazilian players were in confident mood ahead of the game against arch-rivals Argentina in the semifinals of the football tournament at the Beijing Olympics.
Argentine football legend Diego Maradona is expected to watch the match from the stands, but that was not bothering Brazilian defender Hernanes.
"They will have Maradona...
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Host China got a first swim gold at the Beijing Olympics from Liu Zige with a world record 100 metres butterfly performance on Thursday while Alain Bernard gave France its first- ever gold in the showpiece 100m freestyle sprint.
The Australian women's 4x200m relay team smashed the world record to take the gold and Japan's Kosuke...
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The Olympic showcase sport of athletics finally gets underway on Friday - with the 100 metres dash and 110m hurdles the most anticipated events.
World record holder Usain Bolt (9.72 seconds), former record holder Asafa Powell (9.74) and world champion Tyson Gay (9.77) form a formidable trio set to battle for gold on Saturday in what...
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Two Chinese passengers have died in hospital after a van they were travelling in collided with an Olympic shuttle bus in Beijing, organizers said on Thursday.
The two people died in hospital after emergency treatment following the collision on Wednesday afternoon, Wang Wei, the secretary general of the Beijing organizing committee...
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China's gold medallist Guo Wenjun is hoping her new found fame after winning the 10-metre air pistol competition will help her achieve another goal - finding her long-lost father.
Guo's parents divorced soon after she was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi province in northern China, according to the China Daily. Guo's father raised her and...
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Olympic medals won, marathon hope Mizuki Noguchi pulling out - there's been a mixed response in Japan to what the country's athletes are achieving in Beijing.
Daily newspapers ran front page headlines celebrating Japan's first gold in women's judo, with pictures of Ayumi Tanimoto's big smile after throwing her opponent Lucie Decosse...
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 Gun battle and bombing have started this weekend’s Olympic Games in China. Authorities believe that the attack that ended with 8 deaths in western China was an attempt made by the Islamic separatist group to arrest the global attention from the Olympic Games held in Beijing.The attack took place in Kuqa, a city in the Xinjiang region, in...
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 As fire started on a passenger train named Gautami Express that was passing through a forest area 125 miles north of Hyderabad, at least 20 people died. The fire broke out in the state of Andhra Pradesh, in southern India. The officials believe that the fire was caused by an electric short circuit, but the exact causes are still under...
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 It appears that excessive speed was the cause of a train
collision in eastern China
that killed 70 people and left more than 400 others wounded, state media said on
Tuesday, BBC reports. According to the Xinhua news agency, an investigative
panel set up by the State Council determined overspeeding was to blame, and...
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The race for the Spanish league title has already become something of a one-horse race, so well are Barcelona playing -and so far are they ahead.
Lionel Messi and company are 11 points ahead of Valencia, 12 ahead of Real Madrid and Sevilla, and 13 ahead of Atletico Madrid and Deportivo Coruna.
Therefore, the talk in Spain now about...
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David Beckham made a quiet debut for AC Milan as the Italians ran out winners on penalties in a friendly against German Bundesliga side SV Hamburg in Dubai on Tuesday.
Beckham, wearing the number 32 shirt, played the first 45 minutes on the right side of midfield in the Dubai Football Challenge.
Milan won 4-3 on penalties after the...
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David Beckham gave a hint of his marketing skills and image powers on his first Italian weekend, partly upstaging the Serie A's other football stars when he was presented as AC Milan's new arrival.
His new side's 5-1 win over Udinese in the last game of 2008 and the massive media coverage of his presentation Sunday evening were the...
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Three weeks ago, Sevilla tried to bring Barcelona down to earth - and were hammered 3-0 at home.
Two weeks ago, Valencia tried to do the same - and crashed 4-0 in the Camp Nou.
Last Saturday came the turn of Real Madrid - who lost 2-0 in the Catalan capital.
All of which has prompted the following question in Spain: is there any...
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Germany coach Joachim Loew has admitted to dissenting voices in the national team squad but still feels the Euro 2008 finalists can look back "positively overall" on the year.
Apart from the run to the final in the summer, where they lost 1-0 to Spain, Loew also pointed to his side's confident start to the 2010 World Cup...
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Bayern Munich coach Juergen Klinsmann has called for former Germany defender Markus Babbel to be allowed to obtain his coaching badge on a special coaching course.
Klinsmann said an exception should be made for 36-year-old Babbel, a former Germany and Bayern Munich team-mate who has taken over as coach of VfB Stuttgart.
Under...
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Serie A side Catania have renewed the contract of coach Walter Zenga until the end of the 2009/2010 season, the Sicily club's web site said Thursday.
Zenga, 48, last season rescued Catania from relegation after taking the helm with seven games left. In the current season, his team sits comfortably at mid-table on 22 points from 15...
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Two straight defeats and the failure to secure first place in their Champions League qualification group have not dented the confidence of Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho.
"The true bad luck will be also for the first team of another group, who will have to tackle a team like Inter (in the tournament's knockout stage),"...
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Glasgow (dpa) - Diego Maradona has dismissed suggestions that his Argentina team struggled to a 1-0 friendly international victory over Scotland in his first game in charge.
Maxi Rodriguez scored the only goal of the game Wednesday evening after eight minutes at the end of a slick passing move involving Carlos Tevez and Jonas...
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Fiji embarrassed visiting New Zealand with a 2-0 win in Oceania's final World Cup qualifier on Wednesday night.
It was the New Zealanders' first defeat after five wins in the Oceania Nations Cup had already qualified them for the Confederations Cup in South Africa in June 2009 and a World Cup playoff against an Asian team later next...
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Bernd Schuster has reportedly been told by Real Madrid to win in Valladolid on Saturday or start packing his bags.
Madrid sports dailies AS and Marca said on Wednesday that Real have lost confidence in their controversial German coach after a shock cup elimination against third division side Union Irun the previous night.
Real beat...
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Their standing in the Serie A may not show it clearly, but champions Inter Milan are facing some unexpected problems in a defence package that was crucial for them in the successes of the past seasons.
The five goals conceded in the last two games, a 3-2 win over tail-enders Reggina and a 3-3 draw at Cypriot side Anorthosis, sent bad...
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Wednesday will be a very important night for Real Madrid.
That is when the Spanish giants will be trying to turn the tables on their Euro jinx team of recent years, Juventus of Turin, in the week's most high-profile Champions League game.
At the same time, Real will be trying to go back on top of Group H.
"The Old...
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Bayern Munich's Argentina defender Martin Demichelis is delighted about the choice of living legend Diego Maradona as new national team coach.
"Maradona is the biggest football idol we have in football. He is football-crazy. He thinks and lives football every day," the 16-times capped Demichelis told Munich's club website...
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Brazilian football legend Pele made clear his scepticism as to the likelihood that Diego Maradona might be successful as coach of Argentina's senior team.
"Great stars, great players do not usually make good coaches. And sometimes a footballer that was not so brilliant in his career becomes a great coach," Pele noted, in...
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The appointment of football legend Diego Maradona to the post of coach to Argentina's national team coach was met with cautious surprise by fans in the football-crazy South American country.
While Maradona's past talent as a footballer is never questioned, many are casting doubts on his ability to coach the senior team, based on his...
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Former Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona has been named coach of the country's national team despite a lack of experience as trainer at a time when Argentina has struggled in World Cup qualifiers.
"Now the real work begins," Maradona said.
His appointment followed a meeting Tuesday that Maradona and former...
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VfB Stuttgart striker Cacau will play in Sunday's Bundesliga match against VfL Bochum, coach Armin Veh confirmed.
Cacau was missing for Stuttgart's 2-0 defeat at the hands of Sevilla in the UEFA Cup Thursday but the Brazilian is expected to replace midfielder Martin Lanig for the game on the weekend.
"Cacau will come back...
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Not long ago 1899 Hoffenheim were campaigning in the German fifth division in front of a few dozen fans.
On Sunday a capacity crowd of 26,300 will be in the Carl-Benz- Stadion in Mannheim to see the club take on Bundesliga table-toppers SV Hamburg.
But what makes the story so remarkable is not that before the start of the season...
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A good showing in the Champions League may have signalled the end of a bad run for struggling giants Juventus ahead of a city derby they play late Saturday with Torino.
The injury plagued black-whites beat guests Real Madrid 2-1 in mid-week despite a massive injury list that includes top-notch players like goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon,...
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Premier League club Aston Villa begin their UEFA Cup group phase campaign on Thursday against former Champions League winners Ajax Amsterdam.
With SV Hamburg, Slavia Prague and MSK Zilina the other teams in Group F, the teams will be all out to ensure that they get enough points to progress to the next round.
Villa are one of three...
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Midfielder Torsten Frings is the latest Germany player toying with retirement as coach Joachim Loew now longer guarantees anyone a place in the starting 11.
"I am really thoughtful, retiring is more and more on my mind," Frings told Friday's edition of the Bild daily.
The 31-year-old from Werder Bremen was a key player in...
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Joachim Loew should renew his contract as Germany coach beyond the 2010 World Cup, team manager Oliver Bierhoff said.
"I would wish for that. Consistency like in the days of Sepp Herberger and Helmut Schoen would be good for the team, and for the DFB (German football federation) as well," Bierhoff told Wednesday's edition of...
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Raymond Domenech will remain France coach and is to lead the team to the 2010 World Cup, the French football federation FFF said on Wednesday.
The FFF president Jean-Pierre Escalettes said after a board meeting that Domenech can fulfil his contract until 2010.
Domenech came under fire after France's first-round exit at Euro 2008...
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Osasuna raised eyebrows across Spain on Monday by sacking coach Jose Angel Ziganda - and replacing him with former national manager Jose Antonio Camacho.
Camacho has still to sign a contract with Osasuna, but the digital versions of AS and Marca are claiming that he has already agreed to take over the struggling Pamplona...
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The Spanish football federation has sunk the plan of Racing Santander to immediately take Nikola Zigic on loan from Valencia, according to sports dailies AS and Marca on Friday.
Last week Santander asked the federation to cancel the registration of veteran left-back Luis Fernandez on medical grounds.
Their plan was to replace...
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Midfielder Ali Karimi, once nicknamed as "Asia's Maradona," announced his retirement Thursday from the Iranian national football team, ISNA news agency reported.
Karimi broke the news in a letter to the Iranian Football Federation (FFI. No reason was given for Karimi's sudden decision which came just after head coach Ali...
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European champions Spain will be seeking to maintain their winning run, while losing Euro finalists Germany have a tough test when Russia are the visitors in World Cup qualifiers on Saturday.
Meanwhile France and Portugal are among teams under pressure after mixed starts to their World Cup campaign as they visit Romania and Sweden...
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Europe's freedom of movement laws mean make it highly unlikely that UEFA president Michel Platini will get his way by restricting foreign ownership of British clubs.
On Tuesday, the Frenchman attacked what he said was excessive overseas investment in the Premier League, claiming that the country's top clubs are losing their...
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Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke has pulled out of Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Russia after fracturing his hand in training.
A scan Thursday confirmed the fracture in the base of the keeper's left hand.
It means Germany will go into the Group 4 qualifier in Dortmund fielding an uncapped goalkeeper, with Bayer...
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SV Hamburg will face Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam and English Premier League club Aston Villa in the group stages of the UEFA Cup following the draw made Tuesday at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The Bundesliga leaders spearhead a handful of German teams in the competition and will also face Slavia Prague and Zilina in Group F,...
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It's hard to tell who is worst off from the prominent trio of AC Milan, Juventus and Roma in the early part of the Serie A season.
Neutral observers note that after six games the league is "thrilling and crazy," but fans of the three powerhouses are already rather frustrated and fear a season of suffering and dismal...
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It's hard to tell who is worst off from the prominent trio of AC Milan, Juventus and Roma in the early part of the Serie A season.
Neutral observers note that after six games the league is "thrilling and crazy," but fans of the three powerhouses are already rather frustrated and fear a season of suffering and dismal...
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SV Hamburg defender Marcell Jansen has pulled out of the Germany squad for forthcoming World Cup qualifiers with a thigh injury, the German football federation (DFB) said Monday.
Jansen suffered a torn muscle fibre in Sunday's 2-1 victory over Energie Cottbus and will be sidelined for two weeks.
The Germany squad will gather in...
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Bayern Munich have lost their mythos of invincibility in German football after a stumbling start to the Bundesliga season, club president Franz Beckenbauer said.
Smaller teams are now losing their respect for the champions, who are only 11th in the table after two wins in seven matches, Beckenbauer wrote in his column for Bild...
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Revitalized Valencia are keen to stay on top of the Spanish Liga - by winning away to modest Valladolid on Sunday.
Unai Emey's new-look Valencia are completely different from the fractious, chaotic side that finished 10th last season under Ronald Koeman.
Where once there was division, disorder and frustration, there is now unity,...
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It's not the standings you would expect five games into the season, but the presence of Lazio at the top of the Serie A comes as no surprise given their great showings on the pitch.
The Rome side lead on 12 points with a massive 13-6 goal difference and have delighted their fans with a team of young players led by new Argentinian...
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SV Hamburg travel to Energie Cottbus hoping to defend their lead at the top of the Bundesliga while champions Bayern Munich play catch-up at home to Bochum in weekend league action.
Bayern are in midtable after their worst start to a Bundesliga season in 31 years, winning just two of their opening six games.
After back-to-back...
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Serie A champions Inter Milan Wednesday played down through their web site the amount their new coach Jose Mourinho claimed to be earning during a press conference.
Mourinho, 45, challenged a journalist to name a line-up for a game without having to criticize it later. The journalist said he would take the challenge if the coach gave...
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Premier League clubs Tottenham and Everton face tough fights to keep their UEFA Cup hopes alive while former European champions Borussia Dortmund are in a perilous position in second leg matches of the first round on Thursday.
Of England's five-team contingent looking for a place in the 40-team group stage, Everton face the most...
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Three months after taking over Inter Milan, star coach Jose Mourinho seems to have achieved better results in media exposure than in the performance of the Italian champions.
Inter's only truly convincing game was a 2-0 win away to Panathinaikos in the Champions League opening game, while a 1-0 defeat to AC Milan at the weekend topped...
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Romanians CFR Cluj and Cypriots Anorthosis Famagusta give home fans
their first taste of Champions League action when they will be out to
show Wednesday that their strong starts in the competition were not
down just to good fortune.
Cluj take on Chelsea having already upset Roma in a shock 2-1 victory in Italy in their opening...
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The trademark smile and Samba steps of Ronaldinho finally cheered up the hearts of AC Milan fans after weeks of mumbling about the performances of the Brazilian star.
Ronaldinho was the Devils' hero at the weekend as they beat champions Inter Milan 1-0 thanks to a classy header off a cross from his compatriot Kaka.
"I'm very...
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Bayern Munich coach Juergen Klinsmann prepares for Tuesday's Champions League clash against Olympique Lyon with the pressure already mounting on the former German national team boss.
The German champions have made their worst start to a Bundesliga season in 31 years, winning just two of their opening six games as Klinsmann's side...
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Holders Manchester United will be out to kick- start their Champions League title defence when they travel to Denmark to face AaB Aalborg on Tuesday.
Having drawn at home with Villarreal in their opening game of the group stages, United will be looking for three points from the Group E encounter, and will have fit-again Cristiano...
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Investigators in Palermo have arrested two people who appear to be linked to the Mafia and may have tried to infiltrate the local Serie A side, repubblica.it reported Thursday.
Giovanni Pecoraro, a footballers' agent and former manager of Palermo's youth team, and Marcello Trapani, also a players' agent and a lawyer allegedly...
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Champions Bayern Munich visit Hanover 96 on Saturday for a meeting of last weekend's big Bundesliga losers.
Munich crashed 5-2 at home against Werder Bremen while Hanover were trounced 4-0 at Bayer Leverkusen.
The holders Munich recovered in midweek to beat Nuremberg 2-0 in the second round of the German cup, with French star...
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Title holders Inter Milan lead the Serie A standings as they go into a classic city derby with struggling but recovering AC Milan that late Sunday closes the Serie A weekend.
Inter, on 10 points after four games, celebrated their 100th unbeaten home game in the latest mid-week round, but struggled to beat promoted guests Lecce...
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Juventus midfielder Mohamed Sissoko has apologized to his team mates for a recent poor performance due to his observance of Ramadan.
La Gazzetta dello Sport Wednesday quoted the footballer, a French-born Muslim of Mali origins, as saying to the team: "I'm sorry. I know that in Cagliari (last weekend) I didn't give my usual...
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Hoffenheim coach Ralf Rangnick has rejected spending inflated sums for players despite the backing of one of Germany's wealthiest men.
Rangnick has taken the village club from the third to the first division in successive seasons and now finds himself second in the Bundesliga ahead of a visit Saturday by Werder Bremen.
But the...
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When the Utah Jazz visited the red-hot Boston Celtics, they were concerned with Boston's "Big Three." Instead, they were victimized by "The Other One."
Rajon Rondo had a career-high 25 points, nine rebounds and eight assists Monday night as the Celtics won their 15th-straight game, a 100-91 victory over the...
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TSG Hoffenheim added a "playing ugly" attitude to their flair to earn a 1-1 draw on Sunday against Schalke 04, a result good enough to see the newcomers go into the winter break top of the Bundesliga standings ahead of champions Bayern Munich.
Selim Teber's curling free-kick in the 72nd minute cancelled out Schalke's lead in...
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Spanish giants Atletico Madrid announced on Monday that they would travel to Marseille, for Tuesday's Champions League clash against Olympique just hours ahead of the kickoff.
Like most European teams, Atletico normally travel the day before the game, in order to get used to the city, the stadium and the weather.
This time,...
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Frankfurt (dpa) - Only the sky was the limit when Yvonne Buschbaum soared to big heights as one of the leading women's pole vaulters in Germany.
Now the sky is wide open for Buschbaum, who feels the lightness of being after revealing her transsexuality last year and undergoing a gender change to Balian Buschbaum since...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Austrian Benjamin Raich goes into the new alpine season - which starts on the weekend in the Austrian town of Soelden - looking for a second overall World Cup title.
The 30-year-old, who has also won 30 World Cup races, however, is aware that even though he is one of the favourites, he is far from guaranteed to repeat...
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Often described as a cup of losers, this season's UEFA Cup has its fair share of winners in Thursday's first-round first-leg matches.
Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam is one of only a handful of clubs that has won all three European club competition (European Champions' Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup).
After being...
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For coach Joachim Loew, Germany's 3-3 draw in Finland was soon forgotten as he looked ahead to what should be an even tougher test next month against Russia.
Loew was satisfied with the point in Helsinki after his side came close to a rare defeat against a lively Finland who were three times in front only to be pegged back each...
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Third-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta shook off her own jet-lag to reach the quarter-finals of the Commonwealth Bank Classic on Thursday despite a distracting injury timeout from opponent Anastasia Rodionova.
US Open quarter-finalist Pennetta was fuming as the 77th-ranked Russian took a 4-0 lead in the second set, then began feeling...
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Surprise package Hoffenheim will be aiming to keep their place at the top of the Bundesliga when they visit Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.
The newly-promoted village club are the only side with maximum points following two victories without conceding a goal, and Leverkusen coach Bruno Labbadia warns that the good start is no...
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Bayern Munich bosses are remaining calm as the Bundesliga champions look for a first league win under new coach Juergen Klinsmann, chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.
"We have complete patience. We are convinced that we have the right man in Juergen Klinsmann and that we are on the right road," he told Bavarian...
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Germany looked strong Friday at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, as they took two of the first four gold medals on offer for the day.
They won the women's kayak four (K4) 500m and the kayak two (K2) 1,000m, while Briton Tim Brabants won the kayak single (K1) over 1,000m and Attila Sandor Vajda from Hungary took gold in the...
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The glamour of Yelena Isinbayeva brought a smile back to China's face when the Russian competed in the Olympic pole vault just hours after local icon Liu Xiang limped out of the Games with an Achilles tendon injury.
Isinbayeva was the star on a night in which Kenya retained its 3,000m steeplechase domination from world champion Brimin...
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Coach Marcello Lippi is back in the fray after a two-year rest to begin a second stint at the helm of world champions Italy.
He rejoins the national team, which he steered to a fourth World Cup in 2006, for a friendly with Austria on Wednesday in the French seaside town of Nice.
A month and a half after being called back to replace...
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Bayern Munich expect new coach Juergen Klinsmann to deliver a 22nd German league title when the Bundesliga season begins for the league and cup winners at home to SV Hamburg on Friday.
Bayern start the Bundesliga's 46th season as clear favourites but the change of coach from the experienced Ottmar Hitzfeld to 44-year-old Klinsmann,...
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 American tourist Gertrude Zint, 90 this year, is unimpressed with the scenic splendour of Kakadu and the other national parks that stud Australia's far north.
"Gorges - they are quarries filled with water. Gorges, gorges, gorges!" she rants. "You drive for hours in a coach and see a gorge - sand and water. I've seen it...
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The San Antonio Spurs turned up their trademark defense down the stretch to turn back another opponent.
Tim Duncan had 19 points with nine rebounds, and Argentine Manu Ginobili blocked Dwyane Wade's shot in the final minutes as the Spurs beat the Miami Heat 91-84 on Monday night en route to their eighth win in the last nine...
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The San Antonio Spurs turned up their trademark defense down the stretch to turn back another opponent.
Tim Duncan had 19 points with nine rebounds, and Argentine Manu Ginobili blocked Dwyane Wade's shot in the final minutes as the Spurs beat the Miami Heat 91-84 on Monday night en route to their eighth win in the last nine...
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One game after making history, the Boston Celtics' record-setting run is history.
Kobe Bryant scored 27 points and Spain's Pau Gasol had seven of his 20 in the final three minutes of a game-sealing 13-2 run on Thursday as the Lakers snapped the Celtics' franchise-best 19 game- winning streak, with an inspired 92-83 home-court...
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Dwyane Wade was good until the very last drop.
Wade poured in 41 points, including the game-sealing free throws with 6.1 seconds, carrying the Miami Heat to its season-high fourth straight victory, 100-96 over the pesky Charlotte Bobcats on Monday night.
"It's winning time," Wade said. "This is a good Charlotte...
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Sharpshooting Ray Allen was on fire and the Boston Celtics remained red hot.
Allen scored seven of his season-high 35 points in overtime, and the surging Celtics extended their winning streak to 12 games, with a 122-117 come-from-behind road victory over the Indiana Pacers on Sunday night.
"Ray's just on fire," Celtics...
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Although Kevin Garnett missed the game on Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics seemed to be just fine without their emotional leader.
Paul Pierce scored 23 points and fan favourite Brian Scalabrine, filling in for the suspended Garnett, fired in a game-sealing three- pointer with just over a minute left to play as the Celtics held off...
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