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| The young defender will join St. Louis for the second time. |
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| Coach Ottmar Hitzfeld says Switzerland may have to stop playing home matches at St. Gallen after fans jeered captain and record scorer Alex Frei during Friday's friendly against Australia. Swiss fans turned on Frei after he missed a 60th-minute penalty in a 0-0 draw at the AFG Arena. Minutes later, Hitzfeld replaced the 31-year Basel forward who is Switzerland's all-time leading scorer with... |
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| Switzerland midfielder Tranquillo Barnetta has flu and could miss the European Championship qualifier against England on Tuesday. The Switzerland football federation says Barnetta became sick on Friday morning and must sit out the friendly match against Australia in St. Gallen later in the day. Coach Ottmar Hitzfeld has called up Sampdoria midfielder Marco Padalino as cover if Barnetta does not... |
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| Italy is intent on starting anew after its disastrous first-round World Cup exit, and Friday's European Championship qualifier at Estonia is new coach Cesare Prandelli's first real test. When he coached Parma and Fiorentina, Prandelli's teams often showed a lot of flair and he has declared he wants the Azzurri to create a better spectacle. |
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| A St. Lucian soccer player who scored a goal in a New York City tournament and was celebrating his team's victory has been shot and killed. The slaying of Isidore Phillip Tisson occurred early Monday outside a nightclub in Brooklyn. Tisson's coach says he had gone there after scoring the winning goal on Sunday against St. |
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| Ajax moved joint top of the Dutch league Sunday after trouncing De Graafschap 5-0. Luis Suarez, the league's top scorer last season, opened the scoring in the 14th off Gregory van der Wiel's pass before adding another with a free kick in the 41st. Urby Emanuelson netted the third from another free kick in the 68th and Demy de Zeeuw set up Suarez for the fourth in the 85th minute. |
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| Defending champion Rangers went top of the Scottish Premier League on Saturday thanks to a 2-1 win at home to St. Johnstone and Aberdeen's 1-0 home defeat by Kilmarnock. Rangers bounced back from conceding the opener to Danny Grainger in the 25th minute by scoring either side of the break, through Sasa Papac and Kenny Miller, to claim its third win from three matches this season. |
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| Auxerre qualified for the Champions League for the first time since 2002, beating nine-man Zenit St. Petersburg 2-0 on Wednesday to advance 2-1 on aggregate. Cedric Hengbart rose above the Zenit defense to head in a corner by midfielder Benoit Pedretti in the ninth minute. Auxerre doubled the lead in the 53rd. |
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| Sevilla is set to sign defender Alexis Ruano from Valencia to replace Sebastien Squillaci. The 25-year-old Alexis will sign with the Andalucian club for five seasons but first has to pass a medical test. Squillaci, a 30-year-old France defender, is joining Premier League club Arsenal. Alexis, who can play at fullback but normally plays at center back, has played more than 130 Spanish league games... |
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| Different week, same old story at the top of the Goal.com WPS rankings -- FC Gold Pride is the top team. They secured that up with their regular season title clinching win at Chicago this weekend. But there's a new no. 2 on the list. Find out who that is in this week's ranks. |
