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| Landon Donovan heads 23 players picked Monday for a U.S. national team training camp ahead of a Jan. 19 exhibition game against Sweden at Carson, Calif. Three players on the roster are from Scandinavian clubs on winter break: defender Dan Califf, captain of Denmark's Aalborg; defender Ramiro Corrales of Norway's Brann; and forward Jeremiah White of Denmark's Aarhus. |
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| Denmark can move closer to
what only a few months ago seemed an unlikely qualification for
the Euro 2008 finals when they face Spain in Aarhus on
Saturday.
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| Defender Raul Albiol and mifielder Albert Riera got their first call-ups on Friday as Spain coach Luis Aragones named his 20-man squad for a Euro 2008 Group F qualifier against Denmark on October 13 at Aarhus and a friendly against Finland four days later in Helsinki. |
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| Spain coach Luis Aragones named
the following 20-man squad on Friday for the Euro 2008 Group F
qualifier against Denmark in Aarhus on Oct 13 and the friendly
against Finland on Oct 17:
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| Soccer news in brief from
around the world:
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| Didier Drogba insists there is no chance he or John Terry will miss Chelsea's Champions League final showdown against Manchester United. |
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| Alex Ferguson has won two Manager of the Year awards in recognition of Manchester United's Premier League triumph. |
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| Mexican club America,
mired in crisis only one week ago, host Santos this week with
an eye on becoming the first team from their country to win the
South American Libertadores Cup.
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| Japan's Kashima Antlers have made
peace with controversial referee Masaaki Iemoto after his
bizarre performance in this season's J-League curtain raiser.
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Glasgow Rangers are in their first European final since 1972, when they won the Cup Winners? Cup. And their success this season is reflected in their workload.
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