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| The American presence in the English Premier League could be decimated this weekend: As many as nine of the 12 U.S. players in Europe's top league could find themselves on clubs relegated to a lower division. Nicknamed "Fulhamerica" by some because it has five U.S. national team players, Fulham is at Portsmouth on Sunday, the season's final day. |
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| Tottenham star Dimitar Berbatov looks set to play his last game for the club against Liverpool at White Hart Lane on Sunday in what promises to be a farewell fixture for a number of players on both sides. |
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| John Thorrington thought about calling it quits. But for a while, Thorrington didn't have much of a soccer career to quit from. He spent much of his first three seasons with the Chicago Fire injured, rehabbing from injury, testing his health and getting injured again. |
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| The crisis at Barcelona over its poor season deepened Friday as two club members launched a censure motion against the management of the Spanish club that seeks the ouster of is president, Joan Laporta, and his board of directors. |
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| After battling to overcome lingering ankle and hamstring injuries, Chivas USA defender Lawson Vaughn said he thought he had done well to overcome his health issues before Saturday's game in Houston. |
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| Brazilian goalkeeper Doni has signed a contract extension at Italian Cup finalists AS Roma until June 2012. |
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| Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill has accused Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez of "disingenuous" behaviour in his courting of Villa's England midfielder Gareth Barry. |
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| FC Porto president Jorge Pinto da Costa has been suspended for two years and Boavista relegated to the second division for their part in match-fixing, the Portuguese league (LPFP) said on Friday. |
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| Porto will keep the Portuguese
title after being stripped of six points for the alleged bribery
of referees in the 2003/4 season while former champions Boavista
have been relegated to the second division for similar offences.
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| Manchester United had a $113.4 million net loss in the fiscal year ending last June 30, despite winning the English Premier League title. Revenue rose 21 percent to $409 million but the team owes $1.5 billion to creditors, including $109 million in transfer fee installments on players signed by Alex Ferguson, according to accounts released this week by Red Football Joint Venture Ltd. |
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| In Portugal's biggest soccer scandal, FC Porto was deducted six points Friday for trying to bribe referees in two games during the 2003-04 season. The team is headed to a third straight league championship this weekend, and the punishment will not affect its title bid. The league disciplined two other first-division clubs for attempting to fix league matches. |
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| Portuguese soccer authorities deducted six points from FC Porto for attempting to fix league matches. The league's disciplinary committee also relegated Boavista to the second division and deducted three points from Leiria after the investigation into corruption during the 2003-04 season. Four referees were suspended for up to six years. |
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| Chelsea manager Avram Grant
believes his side are playing the best football in England as
they prepare for the title-deciding final day in the Premier
League.
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| Sven-Goran Eriksson has publicly admitted for the first time that he could be leaving Manchester City at the end of the season. |
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| Romanian prosecutors opened a
criminal inquiry against Steaua Bucharest owner Gigi Becali on
Friday, accusing him of trying to bribe players and officials
from another team.
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| The Football Association (FA) have been awarded an extra place in the first qualifying round of next season's UEFA Cup after finishing first in UEFA's Fair Play competition, European football's governing body announced on Friday. |
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| England will get an extra club in next season's UEFA Cup after topping European soccer's Fair Play league. The extra club, still to be decided, will be added to the three which have already qualify from England -- League Cup winner Tottenham, the fifth-place finisher in the Premier League and the winner of the May 17 FA Cup final between Portsmouth and League Championship club Cardiff City. |
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| Brief news from the Premier League
ahead of this Sunday's final round of fixtures:
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| Sven-Goran Eriksson
refused to comment on his future in football on Friday as he
prepared for what looks likely to be his final game in charge of
Manchester City.
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| With nine days between matches, Juan Carlos Osorio hoped the New York Red Bulls would have had ample time to lick their wounds and be fully healthy when they boarded a plane to Los Angeles Thursday for a match against the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday night. |
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| An additional English club will
qualify for next season's UEFA Cup after England topped Europe's
fair play rankings, UEFA said on Friday.
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| Injured Czech Republic midfielder
Tomas Rosicky has been ruled out of Euro 2008, his English
Premier League club Arsenal said on Friday.
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| The Czech Republic's injured captain Tomas Rosicky announced Friday that he will not be taking part in next month's European Championships due to a recurring knee injury. |
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| Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed that title rivals Chelsea's final fixture of the season will be against a Bolton side that has "been out celebrating all week" and hit out at claims Manchester United will have it easy at Wigan. |
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| Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is concerned that his Euro 2008 side could be handicapped by the absence of talismanic players like Inter Milan veteran Luis Figo and PSG skipper Pedro Pauleta. |
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| Alexander Hleb, the Belarus midfielder who has been one of Arsenal's outstanding players this season, is set to follow Mathieu Flamini out of the Emirates Stadium, according to his agent. |
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| Manchester United
manager Alex Ferguson trusts his former assistant Archie Knox to
make it tough for Chelsea as they bid to wrest the Premier
League title away from the champions on Sunday.
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| Arsenal midfielder Aleksandr Hleb
looks set to follow Mathieu Flamini out of the Premier League
club, according to his agent.
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| Brief news from the Primera Liga
ahead of this weekend's matches:
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| Sun Jihai's future at Manchester City is in doubt with reports saying he will not be offered a new contract, but the Chinese star remains upbeat with other English clubs showing an interest. |
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| The chaotic world of Iranian soccer is not often held aloft as an example for others to follow, but as far as FIFA is concerned, the English Premier League should be taking a page out of Tehran's book. Soccer's world governing body has long wanted the world's richest league to reduce the number of teams from 20 to 18 to free more time for international matches. |
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| Corruption and match-fixing remain key areas of concern for Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohamad bin Hammam who Friday vowed to rid them from the game. |
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Despite setbacks, three soccer players who left Cuba?s under-23 men?s soccer team almost two months ago do not seem discouraged as they try to survive in America, both on and off the field.
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| Brief news from Serie A ahead of
Sunday's penultimate round of matches (kick offs 1300 GMT)
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| San Lorenzo, trailing 2-0
and down to nine men with half an hour left, produced an
extraordinary fightback to draw 2-2 with River Plate and reach
the Libertadores Cup quarter-finals on Thursday.
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| A somber postgame atmosphere settled upon the D.C. locker room following their 2-0 loss to the Chicago Fire Thursday night, already their fifth defeat of the 2008 campaign. |
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The Brazilian championship kicks off at the weekend - with one third of the season already having been completed. |
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| The Chicago Fire are off to their to their best start in team history, wining five of their first seven games, losing only one and drawing the other while their seemingly impenetrable defense has given up just three goals. |
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| Manchester City's Thai
international Suree Sukha, on loan at Grasshoppers Zurich,
wants to leave the club because he is homesick and lonely.
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| The Chicago Fire apparently have the formula to win at RFK Stadium. They bent a little, never leaked and took advantage of their opportunities to hold back D.C. United in a 2-0 victory on a slick turf at the venerable old grounds. |
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| Factbox on relegated Derby County who
could set or equal some unwanted records in their final Premier
League match of the season against Reading on Sunday.
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| Factbox on the Premier League title race
to be decided on Sunday when Manchester United visit Wigan
Athletic and Chelsea host Bolton Wanderers (both 1400 GMT):
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| With yob insurance,
football-shaped cakes and 100 life-size statues of former soccer
hero Hans Krankl, joint host Austria is gearing up for Euro 2008
in its own special way.
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| A couple of teams still looking to find their way in the season meet at The Home Depot Center, when the Los Angeles Galaxy return home to take on the New York Red Bulls. |
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Claude LeRoy is to leave his post as Ghana coach at the end of this month after turning down an extension to his contract, the Ghana Football Association said on Thursday. |
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| The Brazilian championship
kicks off at the weekend -- with one third of the season already
having been completed.
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| Atletico Madrid's formidable South American strike pair of Kun Aguero and Diego Forlan fired them one win away from the Champions League with a 2-0 victory over Espanyol on Thursday. |
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