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| Boca Juniors showed why they are favorites to win the Argentina Clausura title by winning their opening game 2-0 over Olimpo of Friday. Dario Cvitanich scored in the 41st minute and Pablo Mouche added another in the 67th for Boca, which won the Apertura title in December -- the first half of Argentina's split season -- and are expected to complete the double. |
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| Werder Bremen says midfielder Wesley is set to return to Brazil and sign for Palmeiras, pending a medical exam. Werder's general manager Klaus Allofs says the transfer contracts are ready to be signed if Wesley passes the medical exam. He is flying to Brazil on Friday. Wesley joined Werder in 2010 from Santos but never seemed to settle in the Bundesliga. |
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| Santos Laguna kept its lead atop the Mexico Clausura football championship with a 2-1 victory over Pumas over the weekend. Santos leads by three points over both Atlante and defending champion Tigres. Atlante defeated Queretaro 3-2 and Tigres defeated America 1-0 on Sunday, ending America's undefeated start to the season. |
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| The 20-year-old will stay at Camp Nou until 2015, and has a buy-out clause of €20 million |
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| Santos Laguna took a
two-point lead in the Mexican Clausura championship with a 3-1
win at Tijuana on Sunday as bottom-place Guadalajara ended a run
of three defeats with a 0-0 draw at Pumas UNAM.
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| Santos Laguna defeated Club Tijuana 3-1 on Sunday to move alone into first place in Mexico's Clausura championship after four rounds. The result improves Santos Laguna to 10 points, two clear of second-place America, which won 3-1 against San Luis on Saturday. Chivas picked up their first point of the season with a 0-0 draw against Pumas on Sunday in coach Ignacio Ambriz's first game in... |
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| American midfielder DaMarcus Beasley scored in the third minute in Puebla' 1-0 victory at Jaguares on Saturday night in Mexico's Clausura season. A 29-year-old from Fort Wayne, Ind., Beasley received a pass just inside the penalty area, cut to his right and scored on a right-footed shot from about 14 yards. |
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| Werder Bremen says it has agreed to sign Austria attacking midfielder Zlatko Junuzovic from FK Austria Wien. Bremen's general manager Klaus Allofs says the 24-year-old Junuzovic only needs to pass a medical examination to complete the transfer. Junuzovic, who is of Bosnian descent, will receive a three-and-a-half year deal. |
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| Mexican club Chivas has hired Ignacio Ambriz as its new coach, replacing Fernando Quirarte who resigned on Saturday after the club's third straight defeat to open the Clausura season. Ambriz coached Mexican club San Luis until last year, and was an assistant for Javier Aguirre at Spanish club Atletico Madrid. |
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| The struggles of Guadalajara's three teams, which now occupy the bottom three spots in Mexico's Clausura standings, highlighted the weekend in Mexican soccer. |
