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| Netherlands coach Marco van
Basten dropped four players on Friday from his provisional squad
for next month's European Championship finals.
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| French football legend Zinedine Zidane will play an exhibition match in Sydney next month alongside a number of teammates from his 1998 World Cup winning side, the promoter said Friday. |
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| Midfielder DaMarcus Beasley, sidelined by a knee injury since November, was among 33 players on a preliminary roster announced Thursday for upcoming U.S. exhibition games. A veteran of two World Cups, Beasley returned to training last month after surgery to repair his right knee, injured while he was playing for Scotland's Glasgow Rangers in a European Champions League match on Nov. |
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Striker Jared Borgetti scored a hat-trick to help Ricardo La Volpe's Monterrey to a shock 4-1 win over nine-man Guadalajara in the first leg of their Mexican championship quarter-final. |
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| Switzerland said on Thursday it
had no evidence of al Qaeda plans to attack next month's Euro
2008 soccer tournament, despite reported militant threats on the
Internet.
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| Houston Dynamo defender Eddie Robinson saw his first in-game action in nearly a month after receiving a long suspension for conduct against Wizards defender Tyson Wahl that was deemed overly violent. |
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| As Germany bid to conquer Euro 2008, head coach Joachim Loew will scale one of the country's highest mountains on Friday to announce his team for next month's European Championships. |
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| Striker Jared Borgetti
scored a hat-trick to help Ricardo La Volpe's Monterrey to a
shock 4-1 win over nine-man Guadalajara in the first leg of
their Mexican championship quarter-final.
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| The LA Galaxy were defeated by the Vancouver Whitecaps, 2-1, on Tuesday night in front of 37,104 fans at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Canada. |
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Brazilian striker Ronaldo said on Tuesday that he was eight kilos overweight but hoped to shed most of the excess within a month. |
