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| Lippi takes over as Italy coach again (AP) |
| Marcello Lippi gave up a life of leisure to return as Italy's national team coach, less than two years after guiding the Azzurri to their fourth World Cup title. "Naturally, I'm very happy to pick up where I left off. But picking up where I left off also means that the Euros didn't go so great, or I would still be on the beach in Viareggio," the well-tanned Lippi said at a news conference Tuesday,... -- read full article |
| Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:56:32 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News |
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| Manchester City to play at Faeroes (AP) |
| Manchester City will travel to the Faeroe Islands in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, Europe's No. 2 club tournament. City, which has spent the summer pursuing Barcelona's Ronaldinho, visits Streymur for the first-leg match on July 17, according to Tuesday's draw. The return leg is on July 31 at Barnsley. -- read full article |
| Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:10:56 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News |
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| Triumphant Spanish team returns to victory parade (AFP) |
| Hundreds of thousands of ecstatic flag-waving fans cheered Spain's Euro 2008 players as they were feted in a parade in an open-top bus through Madrid to celebrate the country's first major football trophy in 44 years. -- read full article |
| Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:01:53 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News |
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| Chelsea sign Portugal's Deco (AFP) |
| Portugal midfielder Deco has signed for Chelsea, the English Premiership club said on Monday, for eight million pounds (10.1 million euros). -- read full article |
| Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:34:23 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News |
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| Spain paints the town red for Euro champs (AP) |
| Hoisting their coach in the air and singing "We Are the Champions," Spain's victorious soccer players returned home Monday to hundreds of thousands of joyous fans ready to celebrate the European title. The players emerged from an open-top bus to form a conga line toward a stage at Colon Square. After tossing 69-year-old coach Luis Aragones several times, they gathered around captain Iker Casillas... -- read full article |
| Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:22:18 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News |
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| Hanging on to Lampard Scolari's top task (AFP) |
| Frank Lampard's continued presence at Chelsea this season will be one of the top tasks of Luiz Felipe Scolari when the new Stamford Bridge boss officially starts work at the club on Tuesday. -- read full article |
| Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:27:40 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News |
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| Spain matures into Euro 2008 champion (AP) |
| The skillful Spanish team that won the European Championship, lifting the country's first trophy since 1964, had been a champion in the making for years. Several of the players who beat Germany 1-0 in Sunday's final emerged from talented Spanish squads that won European and world titles at the youth level. -- read full article |
| Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:42:11 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News |
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| German soccer team welcomed home by 100,000 fans (AP) |
| The German team returned home Monday, kicking soccer balls into a crowd of about 100,000 flag-waving fans in the capital after a 1-0 loss to Spain in the European Championship final. The crowd cheered the players as they appeared one by one on a stage in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate. "It's naturally disappointing when you've come so far," captain Michael Ballack said in an interview... -- read full article |
| Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:31:32 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News |
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| Spain fan found dead amid celebrations (AP) |
| A 40-year-old fan wearing a red Spain jersey was found dead in Madrid after late-night celebrations marking the European Championship title, media reports said Monday. The man's body was found in the center of the Spanish capital with head injuries apparently sustained from a fall, reports said. In all, 65,000 turned out to watch Spain's 1-0 victory over Germany at the Colon Square public viewing... -- read full article |
| Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:49:12 PDT - Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News |
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