UEFA followed the lead of such organizations as diverse as the English Premier League, Little League and FIBA, the world basketball organization, and has banned banned fans from bringing vuvuzelasinto stadiums for UEFA’s national team and club competition games. The South African plastic trumpets were made famous — and notorious — at the World Cup. […]
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Violence threat at United-Rangers game minimized
Martin Bain, the chief executive of Glasgow Rangers, doesn’t expect a repeat of the trouble at the 2008 UEFA Cup final in Manchester when the Scottishchampion travels to Old Trafford to play Manchester United on Sept. 14 in their UEFA Champions League opener. Some 150,000 Rangers fans took over Manchester when Rangers played Zenit St.Petersburg […]
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Inter Milan players sweep Champions League honors
[AWARDS] Argentine Diego Milito, whose two goals gave Inter Milan a 2-0 win over Bayern Munich in the final of the 2010UEFA Champions League was named the competition’s Player of the Year. He and his Inter teammates swept all the positional awards. Player of theYear: Diego Milito, Inter Milan Forward of the Year: Diego Milito, […]
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UEFA Champions League groups
[DRAW] AC Milan, Real Madrid and Ajax — winners of 20 titles — were drawn together in the UEFA Champions League draw conducted Thursday. GROUP A: Inter Milan, Werder Bremen, Tottenham, Twente GROUP B: Lyon, Benfica, Schalke, Hapoel Tel Aviv GROUP C: Manchester United, Valencia, Rangers, Bursaspor GROUP D: Barcelona, Panathinaikos, FCCopenhagen, Rubin Kazan GROUP […]
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UEFA Champions League seedings
[MAKING A LIST] England is the only country with four clubs entered in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League whose draw will be held on Thursday. The elimination of Sevilla and Sampdoria left Spain and Italy, respectively, with only three entrants. France and Germany also qualified three teams. The Netherlands, Portugal andRussia all […]
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Spurs is one of six debutants
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Tottenham will be one of six teams playing in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League for the first time after it beat Young Boysof Switzerland, 4-0, and completed a comeback from 3-0 down in the first leg to qualify 6-3 on aggregate. Slovakian champion Zilina, Portuguese runner-up Braga and Israel’s […]
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Bad grass costs Anderlecht $20 million
It’s being called the worst groundskeeping job in Belgian soccer history, and it will cost American Sacha Kljestan‘s Anderlecht an estimated $20 million. Thearea around the white penalty spot where the shootout at Tuesday’s Anderlecht-Partizan game at Anderlecht’s Constant Vanden Stock Stadium was conducted was so soft that three Anderlecht players skiedtheir shots over the […]
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No Champions League for Kljestan
[AMERICANS ABROAD] There will be no UEFA Champions League for American Sacha Kljestan. In a cruel blow to its ambitions,Belgian champion Anderlecht was knocked of the competition when it fell to Serbian club Partizan, 3-2, on penalty kicks in Brussels after the clubs played to a 2-2 tie for the second time. Kljestan had scored […]
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There's life after Ozil at Werder Bremen
Werder Bremen moved closer to returning to the UEFA Champions League group stage thanks to a 3-1 win over Italy’s Sampdoria on Wednesday, only hours after its star Mesut Ozil signed for Real Madrid. Clemens Fritz, Torsten Frings and Claudio Pizarro scored for Bremen, but Sampdoria, which played the last 23 minutes with 10 men, […]
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Suarez instrumental in Ajax success
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Luis Suarez is at it again. The Uruguayan, who scored 35 goals in the Dutch league last seasonand was instrumental in the Celeste’s fourth-place finish at the World Cup, scored to help Ajax earn a thrilling 3-3 tie at Greek club PAOK and move into the playoff round of UEFA Champions Leaguequalifying […]