The remaining four round of 32 places will be decided on Thursday, with Tottenham Hotspur FC and Udinese Calcio among eight teams vying for a place in Friday’s draw.
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Europa League group stage concludes
COLUMBUS – Crew midfielder Dilly Duka is capping a stellar 2011 with more hard work and success.
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Crew News & Notes: Dilly Duka Shines on Generation adidas Trip
Nene tumbles under Gomez’s challenge. Big-spending Paris St Germain were sent crashing out of the Europa League despite snatching a 4-2 win over a much-changed Athletic Bilbao.
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Paris St Germain 4 Athletic Bilbao 2
Fulham FC 2-2 Odense BK Djiby Fall headed in with the last touch of the game to end Fulham’s campaign as Wisła Kraków snatched second place in Group K.
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Fall’s OB equaliser brings down Fulham
The Houston Dynamo’s new soccer-specific venue will be called BBVA Compass Stadium. The team announced Wednesday that it has entered into a “multiyear naming rights” agreement with banking giant BBVA Compass. The 22,000-seat stadium will be Major League Soccer’s 14th soccer-specific venue with a naming rights partner.
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Toronto FC announced on Wednesday that the club has hired Stewart Kerr as the new goalkeeper coach for the club. “We are pleased to add Stewart to our staff.
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Toronto FC Hire Stewart Kerr
AMSTERDAM — Like Christmas music at the mall, the silly season arrives sooner every year for American players. Luckily, Santa Seltzer is here to help you separate the coal from the candy when it comes to which Americans are on which foreign club’s wish list.
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Postcard from Europe: ‘Tis the season for transfer buzz
Munich – FC Schalke 04 capped off their UEFA Europa League group stage campaign with a 3-0 success away to Israeli champions Maccabi Haifa.
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Schalke sign off with a win
Parma striker Hernan Crespo has confirmed that he will leave the Serie A club in January.
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Crespo to quit Parma
Pompey must pay £1.2 million in April as part of the CVA.
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Race Against Time
HOUSTON (Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011) – The Houston Dynamo and Sunbelt bank BBVA Compass announced they are entering into a multi-year naming rights agreement for the Major League Soccer (MLS) team’s new downtown Houston stadium currently under construction.
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Houston Dynamo, BBVA Compass Reach Multi-Year, Naming Rights Agreement for New Stadium
HOUSTON, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Houston Dynamo and Sunbelt bank BBVA Compass announced they are entering into a multi-year naming rights agreement for the Major League Soccer (MLS) team’s new downtown Houston stadium currently under construction. (Logo:…
Goals from Libor Kozak and Giuseppe Sculli, combined with victory for Zurich over Vaslui, mean that Edy Reja’s side will be in Friday’s draw for the last 32
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Lazio 2-0 Sporting CP: Italians progress to Europa League knockout phase with straightforward win
A late flurry saw the hosts score two goals in the final five minutes to earn the victory, but it was not enough to earn qualification into the knockout stages
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Paris Saint-Germain 4-2 Athletic Bilbao: French collect required win but Antoine Kombouare’s side still crash out of …
Real Madrid returns to La Liga action for the first time since an El Clasico loss to Barcelona on Saturday to clash with Sevilla . Los Blancos won all four meetings against the Sevillistas last season by a combined score of 10-2. After taking a lead in the first minute of last weekend’s match against Lionel Messi and co., Real Madrid watched L’equip blaugrana dominate the majority of the final …
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Sevilla FC vs. Real Madrid: Full Preview, Live Stream, Start Time and Schedule
Despite their many millions spent and a victory over Athletic Bilbao at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday evening, Paris Saint-Germain are out of the UEFA Europa League. They needed some help from Slovan Bratislava to go through to the knockout stages, but the Slovakian side fell at home to SV Salzburg, who go through ahead of PSG. PSG’s failings will likely be the biggest story of the day, but …
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UEFA Europa League 2011, Matchday 6, Early Wednesday Scores: PSG Defeat Athletic Bilbao, But Go Crashing Out
Read a full match preview of the Europa League Group H tie between Birmingham City and NK Maribor.
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Birmingham City v NK Maribor: match preview
Called into action in the first seconds of the game, getting down well to save, but from the resultant corner he could do little to deny a thumping header. Might have moved his feet a little faster to get across to the second, but was otherwise assured.
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Player Ratings: Paris Saint-Germain 4-2 Athletic Bilbao
CARSON, CA. (Wednesday, December 14, 2011) Chivas USA announced today an exclusive partnership with Orange County’s leading youth soccer club, United FC. United FC joins Chivas USA’s growing youth club network that supports the development of soccer in Southern California.
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Chivas USA Keeps on Expanding and Announces New Partnership
Parma striker Hernan Crespo has confirmed that he will leave the Serie A club in January, with a move to Qatar or the USA on the cards.
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Football: Crespo to quit Parma
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. Match ends, Paris Saint Germain 4, Athletic de Bilbao 2. Second Half ends, Paris Saint Germain 4, Athletic de Bilbao 2.
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Sport. Lisbon cards shown Match ends, Lazio 2, Sporting Lisbon 0. Second Half ends, Lazio 2, Sporting Lisbon 0.
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LONDON (AP) — Fulham goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer was ruled out for up to six weeks on Wednesday with a spinal injury.
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The 27-year-old is being courted by other potential suitors and the San Siro outfit may miss out on the striker if its waits too long, according to Pietro Lo Monaco.
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Catania reveal that AC Milan is not the only club interested in signing Maxi Lopez
Still the underdogs, the Colorado Rapids were always going to be up against it in 2011 in trying to defend their remarkable 2010 MLS Cup victory. A spate of injuries and grueling travel brought on by their debut in the CONCACAF Champions League made that task almost impossible.
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2011 in Review: Colorado Rapids
No doubt about it, 2011 was an exciting year for fans of Major League Soccer. Beginning with the new expansion teams–the Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps–and ending with the Los Angeles Galaxy winning the MLS Cup, it was a great year.
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Best Goals in MLS in 2011
I want to point out right from the start that not a single “in the know” individual I’ve spoken with believes Thierry Henry will play for anybody but the New York Red Bulls between now and next fall. Still, such transfer rumors are, at the very least, interesting to…
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RBNY Transfer Rumor: Everton Interested in Thierry Henry
The 27-year-old is being courted by other potential suitors and the San Siro outfit may miss out on the striker if its waits too long, according to Pietro Lo Monaco.
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Catania reveals that AC Milan is not the only club interested in signing Maxi Lopez
LONDON (Reuters) – A year of complete stagnation awaits the euro zone economy in 2012, according to a Reuters poll of economists, who said a recession has already started that will last until the second quarter of next year. In the first poll of economists taken since EU leaders took an historic step towards fiscal union at a summit last week, economists lopped half a percentage point from their …
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Year of stagnation awaits euro zone in 2012
Fulham goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer was ruled out for up to six weeks on Wednesday with a spinal injury. The 39-year-old Australia international landed awkwardly on his neck after collecting a cross in the second half of Saturday’s 2-0 loss at Swansea in the Premier League. Fulham said Schwarzer has “sustained a compression injury to his thoracic spine” and isn’t expected back until…
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Fulham goalkeeper Schwarzer out with spinal injury
