[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Barcelona isn’t going to defend its UEFA Champions League title the way it played Tuesday at Stuttgart. The Spanish club needed asecond-half equalizer from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to earn a 1-1 tie. In Tuesday’s other game, visiting Bordeaux edged Olympiakos, 1-0. “We had to fight, it was a hard game,”Barca coach Pep Guardiola […]
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Barcelona looks to avoid upset
[PREDICTIONS] Can defending champion Barcelona avoid an upset at red-hot Stuttgart? Visiting Bordeaux and Sevilla appear to have the edge against Olympiakos andCSKA Moscow, respectively. The big match in the second set of first legs in the UEFA Champions League’s round of 16 again takes at the San Siro. Last week it was DavidBeckham and […]
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Bocanegra endures rough night
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Carlos Bocanegra’s string of solid outings came to an end Sunday night when he was taken off athalftime of Rennes’ 2-1 loss to visiting Lille. His “2” rating (out of a possible 10 in the France Football ratings) was the worst of anyone on the field. Lille has one of the mostdangerous attacks […]
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Juventus and Liverpool open with wins
[EUROPA LEAGUE] Juventus and Liverpool, two of the great names of European soccer, are enduring rough seasons but picked up wins in the Europa League, the oldUEFA Cup that moved into the knockout phase this week. Juve was the more impressive of the two teams, winning, 2-1, at Ajax, another former European giant, on a […]
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Davies: 'I've come a long way' [VIDEO]
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Charlie Davies is back in France at Sochaux four months after being seriously injured in a caraccident that took the life of another passenger in Northern Virginia on the eve of the USA-Costa Rica World Cup qualifier. In a lengthy and quite revealing interview for the Sochaux web site,Davies talks about his injuries, […]
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Lion is unlikely Lyon hero
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Cameroonian Jean II Makoun was the unlikely hero of Lyon’s 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the firstleg of their UEFA Championship round-of-16 series on Tuesday, scoring a stunning goal to give th French team its third win in three games at home against Real Madrid. Real Madrid’sGalacticos didn’t have a shot […]
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Beckham set for emotional game
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] David Beckham faces Manchester United for the first time since he left Man U in 2003 when Milanhosts United at the San Siro. French striker Karim Benzema returns to the stade Gerland for the first time since time being sold by Lyon to Real Madrid forapproximately $50 million last summer. Tuesday, Feb. […]