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Eintracht Frankfurt have signed veteran Greece striker Nikos Liberopoulos following his release by AEK Athens.
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| Libertadores Cup
runners-up Fluminense failed to see the funny side on Friday
after their final defeat to LDU was publicly celebrated by local
rivals Flamengo.
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| Memories of Brazil's 2-1
loss to Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup were revived when
Ecuador's LDU won the Libertadores Cup at the same Maracana
stadium against local side Fluminense, Brazilian media said.
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| Ecuadorean football
celebrated another ground-breaking moment on Thursday after LDU
became the first team from the country to win the South American
Libertadores Cup.
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| Fluminense coach Renato
Portaluppi said that losing the Libertadores Cup final to
Ecuador's LDU at the Maracana was the worst moment of his life,
apart from his father's death.
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| LDU became the first
Ecuadorean club to win the Libertadores Cup, beating Brazil's
Fluminense on penalties after losing the second leg of the
final 3-1 on Wednesday.
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| Goalkeeper Jose Francisco Cevallos helped Liga de Quito become the first Ecuadorean winner in Copa Libertadores history, stopping three penalty kicks in a 3-1 shootout victory over Fluminense. Liga won Latin America's most important club competition after falling 3-1 in regulation, which tied the two-game aggregate score 5-5. |
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| Ecuadorean champions LDU stunned
Fluminense by firing four first-half goals on their way to a
4-2 win in the first leg of South America's Libertadores Cup
final on Wednesday.
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| Dutch defender Andre Ooijer conceded on Saturday that he had deliberately handballed a shot from Thierry Henry in their Euro 2008 Group C clash with France on Friday. |
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| FIFA tightened security rules Thursday for a World Cup qualifier at the stadium where at least 10 people died this month. A stadium security officer and a special observer will be on duty at the Samuel K. Doe Stadium in Monrovia on Sunday when Liberia faces Senegal, soccer's world governing body said in a statement. |
