1/21/2006 FIFAworldcup.com The race to secure an attacking berth in the Italy squad for Germany 2006 has now officially entered the home straight, and if the events of Wednesday evening are anything to go by, coach Marcello Lippi will be seriously spoilt for choice. With Christian Vieri and Antonio Cassano having had a week to
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1/21/2006 hsv.de Mehdi Mahdavikia picked up a back injury during HSV’s training camp stay in Spain and was considered doubtful of making the opening game of the second half of the season away to Nürnberg. Now though, things are looking up for the Iranian World Cup participant, in fact he could well be in the
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1/20/2006 Afshin Afshar, lastkick.com In the final game of Round 19 Perspolis FC defeated Shamooshak of Noshahr 2:1 in Tehran’s Azadi stadium. The game was played in front of 25 thousand strong Perspolis fans who had braved a very cold winter day in Tehran to cheer on their team. Perspolis scored first in minute thirteen
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1/20/2006 John Duerden, goal.com The standard of Asian football is rising year on year. World Cup success was followed by some of the continent’s best moving to some of Europe’s biggest teams. On a club level Al Ittihad recently demonstrated that the continent is catching up with the best in the world in FIFA’s Club
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1/20/2006 FIFAworldcup.com Aruna Dindane forms a formidable strike partnership for Côte d’Ivoire alongside Chelsea ace Didier Drogba. Having initially come to the attention of the African public through the Asec Mimosas Academy run by Jean-Marc Guillou, Dindane has become one of the key members of the Ivorian national side. FIFAworldcup.com turns the spotlight on this
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1/20/2006 fcbayern.de Bayern made it three wins out of four from their New Year friendly programme with a 2-1 victory over Baltic coast outfit Hansa Rostock on Wednesday evening. Valerien Ismael (19) and Paolo Guerrero (50) netted for the German champions at the Ostsee stadium, Kevin Hansen pulling one back for the home side from
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1/20/2006 AFP KIEV – Ukraine have pulled out of their planned friendly against fellow World Cup finalists Iran, the Ukraine football federation deputy president Vladimir Lashkul told AFP. The game had been scheduled for March 1 in Tehran. “Oleg Blokhin (Ukraine’s manager) told me that he would prefer a less strong opponent to face in
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1/19/2006 EURSOC A little-documented spat has erupted between Israel and Ireland following anti-Zionist remarks by Irish foreign ministry officials. Mathaba references a story in the Jewish Telegraph reporting that an adviser to the Irish Taoiseach (PM) described Zionism as an “Old Testament mandate” and refused to “take a position” on the subject. The aides’ remarks
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