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Familiar faces provide ideal preparation...two best sides was extremely tough. It was full of tension, particularly in light of our home loss to FC Internazionale [Milano] and Ukraine's defeat by Greece in the FIFA World Cup play-offs. We had only two days to recover, especially... In this article: FC Zenit St. Petersburg, FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Rubin Kazan, FC Zurich, FC Basel 1893, Donetsk, Swiss Super League, and FIFA World Cup |
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Guardian | November 08, 2009
I am an idol and should be treated like one, says Lothar Matthaeus
...on Sunday. Matthaeus, accused of arrogance during his playing days, captained West Germany to World Cup victory in 1990 and had a glittering career at both Bayern and Internazionale but as a coach he has enjoyed little success. The...
In this article: Lothar Matthaeus, Germany, World Cup, Bild, Bundesliga, World Cup, Hungarian national team, and Franz Beckenbauer
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UEFA Champions League | August 30, 2009
Gattuso blow for club and country
A twisted ankle sustained in Saturday's derby against FC Internazionale Milano has ruled AC Milan's Gennaro Gattuso out of Italy's FIFA World Cup qualifers away to Georgia and home to Bulgaria on 5 and 9 September respectively, while the...
In this article: Gennaro Gattuso, Milan, All rights reserved, Jose Mourinho, FC Zurich, Olympique de Marseille, Real Madrid CF, FC Internazionale Milano, and UEFA Champions League
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Wikipedia | November 06, 2009
Milan
...today the major gorgonzola producers operate in Piedmont. The city hosted, among other events, the FIFA World Cup in 1934 and 1990, the UEFA European Football Championship in 1980. Football is the most popular sport in Italy, and Milan is...
In this article: Milan, Italy, Lombardy, Europe, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, London, Gorgonzola, and House of Sforza
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Buffon soldiers on for Juve cause
...said the custodian following Italy's 2-2 draw away to the Republic of Ireland that sealed the Azzurri a place in the next summer's FIFA World Cup finals. "I will carry on as long as possible - I hope until the game against Inter."
In this article: Surgery, Italy, Gianluigi Buffon, UEFA Champions League, All rights reserved, Serie A, Claudio Marchisio, and Juventus
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2002 in association football
...4-2 on penalties. They also retained the Asian Super Cup. August 31 - Real Madrid signs Internazionale 's World Cup winner Ronaldo with a transfer fee of EUR45 million. October 1 - Gerard van der Lem is named manager of the Saudi...
In this article: Real Madrid, World Cup, Olimpia Asuncion, Feyenoord, 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/japan, Ronaldo, Anyang LG Cheetahs, Gerard van der Lem, Suwon Samsung Bluewings, and Saudi Arabia national football team
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Ronaldo gets black eye after media scrum
...the same knee and was sidelined for several months after more surgery. He recovered in time to help Brazil win the World Cup in 2002 in South Korea and Japan. He was the tournament's top scorer with eight goals in seven matches...
In this article: Ronaldo, Surgery, Brazil, Milan, World Cup, PSV Eindhoven, Real Madrid, Internazionale, and Michelangelo
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ESPNsoccernet - The World's Site for the World Game | March 05, 2008
ESPNsoccernet - Preview: Real Madrid vs Roma - UEFA Champions League
...his collection. Cannavaro has won numerous domestic and European titles during his playing career at Napoli, Parma, Internazionale, Juventus and Real, while in 2006 he captained Italy to World Cup glory in Germany. The 34-year-old...
In this article: Rome, Fabio Cannavaro, Luciano Spalletti, Francesco Totti, Champions League, Real Madrid, Robinho, Recreativo Huelva, Parma, and Internazionale
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The forgotten story of ... Danish Dynamite
...job or the epiphany or even the Jules Rimet Trophy. Johan Cruyff said his Holland side of the 70s were immortalised by their failure to win the World Cup and, when World Soccer invited a group of experts to select the greatest teams of all...
In this article: Denmark, Frank Arnesen, Sepp Piontek, Morten Olsen, Jesper Olsen, Michael Laudrup, Allan Simonsen, Soren Lerby, FIFA, and World Cup
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San Siro
...Club Internazionale Milano . The stadium is named in honour of Giuseppe Meazza, the two-time World Cup winner (1934 , 1938 ) who played for Internazionale, and briefly for Milan, in the 1930s and 1940s. The stadium construction started...
In this article: Internazionale, Milan, Giuseppe Meazza, 1990 World Cup, AC Milan, Italy, World Cup, Carlos Ortiz, and Duilio Loi
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The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.
The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase (officially called the World Cup Finals). The qualification phase, which currently take place over the three years preceding the Finals, is used to determine which teams qualify for the Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation (or nations) over a period of about a month. The World Cup Finals is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final.
In the 18 tournaments held, seven nations have won the title. Brazil, the only team to have played in every tournament, have won it a record five times. The current World Champions, Italy, follow with four titles, while Germany hold three. The other former champions are Uruguay (who won the inaugural tournament) and Argentina with two titles each, and England and France with one title each.
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