All Posts Tagged With: "soccer"
Chelsea plays for high stakes in Champions League (The Associated Press)
MUNICH (AP) Chelsea is playing for a place in European soccer history as well as next season’s competition when it meets Bayern Munich on Saturday in the Champions League final. After nine straight seasons among Europe ‘s elite, Chelsea’s sixth-place finish in the Premier League means its only entry to next season’s Champions League is as title holder. The price of defeat is therefore higher
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Chelsea plays for high stakes in Champions League
By GRAHAM DUNBAR | Associated Press – MUNICH (AP) — Chelsea is playing for a place in European soccer history as well as next season’s competition when it meets Bayern Munich on Saturday in the Champions League final. After nine straight seasons among Europe ‘s elite, Chelsea’s sixth-place finish in the Premier League means its only entry to next season’s Champions League is as title holder
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Women’s Professional Soccer folds (The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The Women’s Professional Soccer league is folding after three seasons.
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Burn it like Beckham: the Olympic flame (The Associated Press)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) David Beckham wants two things: the flame to burn right and a spot on Britain’s Olympic team.
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Marcelo Lippi joins Guangzhou Evergrande as coach (The Associated Press)
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) Marcello Lippi has been hired to coach big-spending Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Evergrande and plans to bring an Italian style to the club immediately.
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Marcelo Lippi joins Guangzhou Evergrande as coach
Associated Press – GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — Marcello Lippi has been hired to coach big-spending Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Evergrande and plans to bring an Italian style to the club immediately.
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Rugby
MELBOURNE (May 17): Australia and New Zealand, the top two rugby nations by world ranking, have welcomed a new financial model for World Cup revenue set to boost their shares of takings from the quadrennial showpiece. The sports global governing body, the International Rugby Board, announced the new model at a meeting in Dublin this week which promised an additional £50 million (RM247.96 million) for the game’s development over 2012-2015.
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Australia, New Zealand hail new rugby World Cup deal
Reuters – MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia and New Zealand , the top two rugby nations by world ranking, have welcomed a new financial model for World Cup revenue set to boost their shares of takings from the quadrennial showpiece.
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Rugby-Australia, New Zealand hail new rugby World Cup deal
Australia and New Zealand, the top two rugby nations by world ranking, have welcomed a new financial model for World Cup revenue set to boost their shares of takings from the quadrennial showpiece. The sports global governing body, the International Rugby Board, announced the new model at a meeting in Dublin this week which promised an additional 50 million pounds ($80 million) for the game’s development over 2012-2015.
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Obama kids Beckham about his age, underwear line
Associated Press – WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is ribbing soccer star David Beckham over his age and his outside interests, saying it’s a “rare man who can be that tough on the field and also have his own line of underwear.” Obama welcomed Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy to the White House Tuesday to celebrate their third Major League Soccer Cup. The president joked that the star-studded Galaxy, led by Beckham, midfielder Landon Donovan and forward Robbie Keane , are the ” Miami Heat of soccer.” Obama told the 37-year-old Beckham that half of his teammates “could be his kids. We’re getting old, David.” The president said the model and athlete was “holding up better than me.” Beckham generated attention in February when H&M aired ads for his new undergarment collection during the Super Bowl.
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