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| Morocco's Wydad Casablanca
will entertain holders Entente Setif of Algeria in the first
leg of the Arab Champions League final on Friday.
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| Ex-Algeria boss Cavalli to coach in Casablanca |
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| French coach Jean-Michel
Cavalli has signed a contract for the rest of the season with
former African champions Wydad Casablanca of Morocco, the club
announced.
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| Former Brazil striker Casagrande was released from the hospital on Tuesday after recovering from a car accident over the weekend. Casagrande, who played in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, was briefly in a coma after the car he was in rolled over and struck several parked vehicles late Saturday night on a Sao Paulo street. |
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| Casagrande, a star striker for Brazil on its 1986 World Cup team, left the intensive care unit Monday and was breathing on his own after a weekend car accident. The 44-year-old ex-player "improved considerably" from a day ago and remained in stable condition, Albert Einstein Hospital said. Casagrande was briefly in a coma after his car rolled and hit parked cars Saturday night. |
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| Former Brazil striker Casagrande was in stable condition in an intensive care unit Sunday after being injured in a car accident. Casagrande, one of Brazil's strikers during the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and a popular TV commentator, was taken to a hospital after the car he was in rolled over and struck several parked vehicles late Saturday night in Sao Paulo. |
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| Soccer news in brief from
around the world:
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| Portuguese coach
Nelo Vingada has signed a one year deal with Morocco's Wydad
Casablanca, the club announced on Monday.
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| Midfielder Mbark Boussoufa
and defenders Abdeslam Ouaddou and Walid Regragui have withdrawn
from Morocco's squad for their African Nations Cup qualifier
against Zimbabwe in Casablanca on Saturday.
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| ASEC Abidjan prevented a
north African clean sweep of places in the last eight of the
African Champions League with a goalless draw in Morocco on
Sunday to overcome hosts Wydad Casablanca 2-0 on aggregate.
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