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| Spanish and Russian fans braving
rainstorms on Thursday night to cheer their teams playing
kilometres away bore witness to a phenomenon that has now become
a fixture for any major tournament: the fanzone.
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| After they sneaked past a rather mediocre Austria with a 108 kilometres-per-hour bullet free kick from Michael Ballack's boot Germany coach Joachim Loew admitted an improvement would be needed to see off Portugal. |
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| Bartolome 'Tintin' Marquez is to
be promoted from within to coach Espanyol next season, the
Primera Liga club said on Monday.
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| On the first floor of his villa, 30 kilometres from Munich, Germany and Bayern Munich striker Lukas Podolski has set up an office where his most treasured sports memorabilia are kept. |
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| Ivory Coast striker Didier
Drogba did not win the 2007 African Footballer of the Year award
because he refused to attend Friday's ceremony in Lome, his team
said on Monday.
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| Two kilometres from the
state-of-the-art Tamale Sports Stadium, built especially for the
African Nations Cup, lies the home of local first division side
Real Tamale United and the contrast could not be starker.
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| Ivory Coast captain Didier
Drogba faces competition from Chelsea team mate Michael Essien
and Frederic Kanoute in his bid for a second successive African
Footballer of the Year award in Lome on Friday.
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| Ghana midfielder Michael Essien
will not attend Friday's African Footballer of the Year ceremony
in Lome, Togo, coach Claude LeRoy said.
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| One of India's leading business conglomerates, Bharti Enterprises, inked a deal here on Friday aimed at boosting football in the cricket-crazy country. |
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| Czech international striker Milan Baros was clocked doing 271 kilometres an hour (168 miles an hour) in his Ferrari on a motorway east of here on Thursday, police sources said on Friday. |
