With his 67th-minute penalty against Russian club FC Sheriff Tiraspol on Thursday, Jermain Defoe set Tottenham’s record for most strikes in Europe, with his23rd, surpassing Spurs legend Martin Chivers in the process. Tottenham won the game 2-1, qualifying for the second phase of the Europa League with two games still to play.
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Boyd's Rapid Vienna and Johannsson's AZ settle for ties
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Strikers Terrence Boyd and AronJohannsson both started as their teams played to ties in the Europa League on Thursday. Boyd’s Rapid Vienna came back from two goals down to tie Dynamo Kiev, 2-2, in Vienna. TheU.S. striker was issued a yellow card in the game. Johannsson hit the crossbar in AZ’s 1-1 tie […]
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Mestalla Mauling: Swans Stun Valencia
Swansea City received almost universal applause around the Estadio Mestalla for Thursday’s 3-0 Europa League trouncing of La Liga giant Valencia in what some pundits are describing as the Welshclub’s finest-ever performance. Michael Laudrup’s men, who ironically started the game with six Spaniards to Valencia’s four, outshot the home side by a total of 19shots […]
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Besiktas Banned from Europa League
The European Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday banned Besiktas from the Europa League this season after finding the Turkish giant guilty of match-fixing in its domestic league. Besiktas haddefeated Norwegian side Tromso 3-2 in its Europa League playoff series on Thursday, but the ruling was handed down the next day.
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Fenerbahce Banned From Europe for Two Years
Fenerbahce has been banned from European competition for two years after the Court of Arbitration for Sport opted to uphold the club’s punishment for its involvement in game-fixing in Turkey.The decision means that Fener would not have been able to enter this year’s UEFA Champions League even if it hadn’t lost the competition’s qualifying round […]
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Johannsson scores in fifth straight AZ game
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Aron Johannsson, who recently debuted for the U.S. national team, made it five goals in his first fiveclub games of the season for AZ, scoring in its 3-1 win at Greek club Atromitos in the first leg of their Europa League playoff series on Thursday. Johannsson, who is now AZ’s mainstriker with the […]
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UEFA Hands European Bans to Fenerbahce, Besiktas
UEFA on Tuesday banned Turkish giants Fenerbahce and Besiktas from European competition next season due to a domestic game-fixing scandal, while handing Romania’s Steaua Bucharest a deferredban that will last five years. Fener was handed a three-year ban, with the third year deferred for a probationary period of five years, after being charged with fixing […]
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Americans enter in second qualifying round
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Another season of the UEFA Champions League kicks off next week, and the draw was held Monday for the first two qualifying rounds in whicha pair of Americans will compete. Danijal Brkovic, who was born in Croatia and grew up in Johnson City, N.Y., will play for Bosnian champion Zeljeznicar againstCzech champion […]
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UEFA to Give UCL Spot to Europa Winner
A new UEFA ruling will see the winner of its Europa League given an automatic berth in the Champions League for the following season. The new ruling will take effect from the 2014-15 season; aformal announcement of the change is expected Friday. Soccer’s European governing body is also considering whether to award a fifth Champions […]
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Lampard: Blues Fans Had Every Right to Criticize Benitez
Chelsea vice captain Frank Lampard, who recently inked a one-year contract extension with the club, said that Blues fans had every right to treat outgoing interim-coachRafael Benitez harshly. In an interview with the Sun, Lampard pointed out that Benitez made comments criticizing the club and its former manager JoseMourinho when he was in charge of […]