Solid performances by Inter Milan, AS Roma, Barcelona and Sevilla saw the four teams through to the round of 16 on the penultimate match day of UEFA Champions League group play.
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1st goal of the match by David Trezeguet
2nd goal of the match by Vincenzo Iaquinta
3rd Goal of the match and first by Del Piero
4th Goal by Marco Marchionni
Last goal of the game by Alessandro Del Piero
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so everybody cherishes soccer there but is Brazil a good choice for hosting the world champ? are their stadiums any good for the numerous fans which are going to be there? they should get themselves together and start working
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The Football Association is expected to announce England manager Steve McClaren has been sacked at a news conference at 0945 GMT.
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England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 after losing a sensational game against Croatia at Wembley. The result will surely cost Steve McClaren his job as England manager and after such an abysmal display, he can have few complaints.
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England earned a Euro 2008 qualifying reprieve with their fate again in their own hands after Group E rivals Russia dramatically lost 2-1 in Israel.
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Football governing body FIFA may introduce goal-line technology at the 2010 World Cup if it proves effective at the world club championship in Japan next month. In the experimental system, a microchip in the ball relays an electronic signal to the referee’s watch when it crosses the goal line.
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About 50,000 members paid £35 (US$72.42), creating a fund of about £1,375,000, and today the site announced that they had parlayed that cash into a deal in principle to acquire a majority stake in English minor league football club Ebbsfleet United for US$1.45 million.
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For NYC-based soccer fans, things are sadly heading back downhill. It doesn’t need to be this way. Mr. Dolan: Tear down that wall! I want my GolTV!
A few years ago, Fox Soccer Channel offered a cornucopia of live action from the top leagues in Europe and Latin America. My how times change. This morning, when I went to turn on the TV, I got…nothing? Yet at this very moment, Premiership and Bundesliga teams were in action on GolTV, which, as a New York City-based hostage subscriber to Jim Dolan’s Time Warner Cable I can’t get even if I were to pay extra for it (trust me, I’ve tried)…
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How to successfully come out of the goal and slide or dive for a soccer goalkeeper. Things you MUST remember.
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