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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - England manager Fabio Capello has set his team a minimum target of reaching the World Cup semi-finals in South Africa this year.
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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Double Olympic gold medallist Maria Riesch handed Lindsey Vonn a rare downhill defeat on Wednesday and also forced her American friend to put her third successive overall World Cup title on hold.
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Followers of Arsenal got the prophesied knockout performance from Nicklas Bendtner that they had been waiting for.
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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Maria Riesch handed Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn only her second downhill defeat of the season when she won the final World Cup race in the discipline on Wednesday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese company ordered to stop making soccer World Cup mascots because of poor working conditions in their factory hit back at the accusations on Wednesday, saying they were victims of South African politicking.
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| Debt-ridden English minor
league side Chester City were wound up by the High Court on
Wednesday, the Press Association reported.
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| One of five former European champions in Europa League action on Thursday, Juventus is up against an unfamiliar opponent. The Italian club beat Ajax in the last round in a rerun of the 1996 Champions League final but now meets English side Fulham, which has reached the round of 16 in its first ever season of continental competition. |
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| Bayern Munich striker Mario
Gomez will be out for up to three weeks after tearing a calf
muscle in Tuesday's Champions League game at Fiorentina, the
club said.
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| The Football for Hope movement has received the award for Philanthropy and Cooperation through Sports at the Global Sports Forum. Football for Hope is a social development project led by FIFA and streetfootballworld which has carried out a range of initiatives in areas such as education, children's rights and anti-discrimination since 2005. |
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| Germany striker Mario Gomez will be out for two to three weeks with a calf injury. Bayern Munich says that Gomez ruptured a muscle in his right calf during Tuesday's Champions League match at Fiorentina. Gomez was replaced by Miroslav Klose in the 30th minute. He may be back in time to face his former club Stuttgart in the Bundesliga on March 27. |
