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| Galatasaray midfielder Tobias
Linderoth, plagued by injuries for nearly a year, will miss
Sweden's World Cup qualifying match against Portugal this
month.
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| The teams for Tuesday's
Champions League Group G match between Fenerbahce and Dynamo
Kiev at Sukru Saracoglu stadium:
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| Czech international Milan Baros on Tuesday signed a three-year deal with Turkish champions Galatasaray, the club confirmed. |
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| Welcome back to MLS, Bruce Arena (and associate Dave Sarachan). And thanks, Los Angeles Galaxy, for inspiring this week's First XI, which takes a stroll down memory lane (in some cases not too far back) to chronicle some of our favorite (and not-so-favorite) midseason coaching switches in league history. |
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| Champions League third qualification
round first leg results on Wednesday
Barcelona (Spain) 4 Wisla Krakow (Poland) 0
Vitoria Guimaraes (Portugal) 0 Basel (Switzerland) 0
Standard Liege (Belgium) 0 Liverpool (England) 0
Partizan Belgrade (Serbia) 2 Fenerbahce (Turkey) 2
Sparta Prague (Czech Rep) 1 Panathinaikos (Greece) 2
Twente Enschede (Netherlands) 0 Arsenal (England) 2
Juventus (Italy) 4 Artmedia Petrzalka (Slovakia) 0
Schalke 04 (Germany) 1 Atletico Madrid (Spain) 0
Brann Bergen (Norway) 0 Olympique Marseille (France) 1
Galatasaray (Turkey) 2 Steaua Bucharest (Romania) 2
AaB Aalborg (Denmark) 2 FBK Kaunas (Lithuania) 0
Anorthosis Famagusta (Cyprus) 3 Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece) 0
Levski Sofia (Bulgaria) 0 BATE Borisov (Belarus) 1
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) 2 Dynamo Zagreb (Croatia) 0
Spartak Moscow (Russia) 1 Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) 4
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| American goalkeeper Brad Friedel signed a three-year contract with English club Aston Villa on Saturday. The 37-year-old left Blackburn for an undisclosed fee, one day after Blackburn signed former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson from Tottenham. Friedel, who has made 82 appearances for the United States, has previously played for the Columbus Crew, Galatasaray and Brondby before moving to England... |
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New Galatasaray signing Harry Kewell has defended his move to Istanbul, stressing it is not disrespectful to the two Leeds fans who were killed in the city eight years ago. |
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| Australia midfielder Harry Kewell
issued an open letter to Leeds United supporters on Monday in
defence of his decision to join Turkish club Galatasaray.
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| Carli Lloyd scored on a deflected shot in the 39th minute Saturday to give the United States a 1-0 victory over Sweden in a women's Olympic tuneup. Lloyd dribbled past three defenders inside the box, then fired a low left-footed shot that glanced off Sara Thunebro's leg and past goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl. |
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Harry Kewell revealed Galatasaray were the pick of several clubs interested in him after signing a two-year deal with the Turkish champions. |
