As Euro 2012 looms, Poland fans got a chance on Friday to get up close to the tournament trophy, though few here expect their team to lift it in the final.
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Football: Poles get up close to Euro trophy
* Euro, gold surrender gains after Spanish debt auction * Markets cautious as yields rise on longer-dated paper * Anglo American Platinum maintains 2012 output target (Releads, updates prices, adds comment) …
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Poland’s national stadium, where Euro 2012 kicks off in two months, cleared a new hurdle on Tuesday with its first ever club game, pitting Polish league leaders Legia Warsaw against Spanish side Sevilla.
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Poland's Euro 2012 stadium clears new hurdle
Manchester City forward Mario Balotelli has attempted to placate angry Italy boss Cesare Prandelli by declaring that the national team are more important than anything else.
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Balotelli Bids to Safeguard Italy Spot
Real Madrid and Barcelona’s titanic duel to be crowned kings of Spain and Europe comes to a head over the next nine days when they face Bayern Munich and Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals, with a ‘clasico’ sandwiched in between.
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Spain Braces for More 'Clasico' Fever
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus Crew goalkeeper William Hesmer and forward Tommy Heinemann have undergone microfracture surgery that will sideline them for the season.
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Soccer Capsules: Crew loses Hesmer, Heinemann to injury
MADRID (Reuters) – Italy’s Euro 2012 chances were dealt a blow on Friday when striker Giuseppe Rossi tore the same ligaments in his right knee that have already sidelined him for six months.
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Villarreal's Italy forward Rossi out of Euro 2012
KYIV, Ukraine, April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –The UEFA President Michel Platini expressed his admiration for Ukraine’s preparation to host EURO 2012 championship. Platini, together with the President of …
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Michel Platini: EURO 2012 in Ukraine – True Holiday for Football Fans
Technical Cross Report – Euro vs. Great British Pound (2012-04-11)
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Euro vs. Great British Pound (2012-04-11)
European soccer’s governing body promised its 53 national affiliates record broadcasting revenue of about $1.5 billion for rights to qualification matches to Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup, two people familiar with the matter said.
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National Soccer Teams Said to Get $1.5 Billion Promise From UEFA
Look into a sports deal in 2001 and you can see how Spanish austerity is doomed.
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Getting Real About Spain
KYIV, Ukraine, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –American digital sports media network Bleacher Report ranked the Ukrainian EURO 2012 facility – National Sports Complex Olimpiyskyi in Kyiv – the best stadium …
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Kyiv Olympic Stadium is Top Euro 2012 Venue – Bleacher Report
It wasn’t how the average 17-year-old girl would prepare for a 10-day, spring trip to Southern California. Not showing up to the otherwise deserted soccer field at Mines Falls Park on a bone-chilling late March morning, a few lonely snow flakes dancing in a light breeze. But Morgan Andrews, a junior at Milford High School, is no ordinary teenager. She’s the captain of the Under 17 United States …
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Milford’s Morgan Andrews still determined to represent US women’s soccer at Olympics
Euro 2012 host Poland lacks a database of foreign hooligans banned from stadiums in their homelands, raising the risk of trouble at the looming tournament, monitors warned on Tuesday.
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Football: Poland lacks foreign hooligan list for Euro 2012
NEW YORK, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, the public relations arm of global communications giant Euro RSCG Worldwide, today announced three clients it has added to its roster over …
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Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, North America, Extends Its Winning Streak With Nine New Clients
Technical Cross Report – Euro vs. Japanese Yen (2012-04-04)
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Euro vs. Japanese Yen (2012-04-04)
CHIBA, Japan (AP) — Carli Lloyd, Shannon Boxx and Amy Rodriguez scored to power the United States to a 3-0 victory over Brazil in the three-team Kirin Cup on Tuesday.
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Soccer Capsules: United States tops Brazil in women's Kirin Cup
Bayer Leverkusen have sacked Robin Dutt after a run of five successive defeats in all competitions and installed Sami Hyppia as caretaker coach until the end of the season.
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Bayer Leverkusen have sacked Robin Dutt as their coach after a run of five successive defeats in all competitions.
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Bayer Leverkusen sack Robin Dutt as coach
Bayer Leverkusen have sacked Robin Dutt after a run of five successive defeats in all competitions and installed Sami Hyypia as caretaker coach until the end of the season.
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Electronic Arts will be releasing its tie-in with the European Championships as a downloadable extra for the current Fifa title Electronic Arts has announced its official UEFA Euro 2012 tie-in – but in an interesting break from tradition, the title won’t be available as a full-price standalone release. Instead, it will be an expansion pack for Fifa 12. The downloadable package will contain all …
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Euro 2012 game announced as DLC for Fifa 12
Newport Beach resident is a key player as a center back on U.S. Under-17 national soccer team.
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Bauer among elite
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers are likely to agree to temporarily almost double their financial backstops on Friday as one of the final moves to end the sovereign debt crisis, although Germany continues to favor a smaller increase. The 17 countries sharing the euro have already agreed to adopt balanced-budget rules in an effort to convince markets that euro zone public …
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Euro zone set to boost debt-crisis firewalls
The inevitable licensed Euro 2012 title from EA Sports will be a digital-only release, MCV can reveal. Furthermore, the game will skip a stand-alone release entirely and instead be made available as a DLC expansion for existing title FIFA 12. Called EA Sports UEFA Euro 2012, the download includes all 53 UEFA member national teams and the eight official stadiums of the tournament. As well as …
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EA's FIFA Euro 2012 is a download-only title
Club Atlético de Madrid coach Diego Simeone has called on his players to “stand up and be counted” against a Hannover 96 side who believe they can rub shoulders with the very best.
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Simeone wants Atlético 'to sort men from boys'
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – European broadcasters will be asked to bid for the rights to national team soccer games under a new system modelled on the Champions’ League – the lucrative competition for top clubs. UEFA, European soccer’s ruling body, will sell rights to future qualifiers for European Championships and World Cups collectively on behalf of all its 53 members. Individual football …
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National games get Champions League makeover
European broadcasters will be asked to bid for the rights to national team soccer games under a new system modelled on the Champions’ League – the lucrative competition for top clubs.
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Broadcasters to bid for national soccer
Gelsenkirchen – Until recently they were dreaming of Real Madrid and Barcelona, but after their 2-0 loss to Schalke Bayer 04 Leverkusen will now have to make do competing for a place in the Europa League. Three consecutive defeats suggests die Werkself are spiraling downwards in a similar fashion to their player’s recent performances.
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Goodbye Champions League!
NEW YORK (AP) — For all the talk about the strides soccer has made in the United States, results of late have been stark and disappointing. The Americans were eliminated by Ghana in the last two World Cups. The under-20 team’s streak of seven trips to the world championship ended last year.
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Soccer Capsules: U.S. stumbles as it pushes to join soccer elite
Technical Cross Report – Euro vs. Japanese Yen (2012-03-27)
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Euro vs. Japanese Yen (2012-03-27)
