Russia celebrated well into the night
after its team unexpectedly reached the Euro 2008 semi-finals
on Saturday with a thoroughly deserved 3-1 extra-time win over
Netherlands.
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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:35:39 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Netherlands became the third
group winners to crash out of the Euro 2008 quarter-finals
despite the apparent advantage of having rested key players
before their match.
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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:51:20 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Echoing the thoughts of the majority of the Spanish public, Italy defender Christian Panucci believes his side have the mental edge over Spain ahead of Sunday's Euro 2008 quarter-final here. -- read full article
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:29:37 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Thousands of orange-clad Dutch fans
flooded sun-soaked Basel on Saturday ahead of the third Euro
2008 quarter-final in which Netherlands play Russia, coached by
self-confessed "traitor" Dutchman Guus Hiddink.
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:42:00 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Netherlands coach Marco van
Basten included Khalid Boulahrouz, whose prematurely-born baby
daughter died in the week, at right-back in his team to face
Russia in their Euro 2008 quarter-final on Saturday.
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:11:28 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Striker Samuel Eto'o hit a
dramatic last-gasp goal to keep Cameroon on course for a place
in the last phase of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers after a 2-1
victory over Tanzania on Saturday.
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:17:26 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Italy midfielder Alberto
Aquilani is pushing for a start in Sunday's Euro 2008
quarter-final against Spain, coach Roberto Donadoni has said.
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:20:53 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Arjen Robben did not join his
Dutch team mates in the warm-up for Saturday's Euro 2008
quarter-final against Russia due to a niggling groin problem,
coach Marco van Basten told Dutch TV station NOS.
-- read full article
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:39:23 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Spain's past failures against
Italy do not weigh heavily on the shoulders of the players and
they do not see Sunday's Euro 2008 quarter-final as a way of
avenging previous disappointments.
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:40:02 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Italy go into Sunday's Euro 2008
quarter-final against Spain knowing that their group stage form
has made the world champions look like underdogs.
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:06:39 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
A look at the likely formations,
strengths and weaknesses of Spain and Italy who meet in the
quarter-finals of Euro 2008 at Ernst Happel Stadium on Sunday
(1845 GMT):
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:30:03 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Dwayne De Rosario and Ali Gerba scored two goals apiece to lift the Canada men's national team to a 4-1 triumph over St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Friday in the second leg a two-match qualifying series for the 2010 World Cup. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:31:30 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Netherlands play a revitalised
Russia in Euro 2008's third quarter-final on Saturday, with a
place in the last four against world champions Italy or Group D
winners Spain the prize.
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:00:02 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Canada advanced to the semifinals of World Cup qualifying in the North and Central American and Caribbean region, defeating St. Vincent and the Grenadines 4-1 Friday night. Dwayne De Rosario and Ali Gerba scored two goals each for Canada, which won the home-and-home, total-goals series on 7-1 aggregate. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:24:37 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
