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NYON, Switzerland — AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso was banned by UEFA for four matches
Monday after he head-butted a Tottenham coach at a Champions League match. UEFA's disciplinary body
"ruled that Gattuso had assaulted the Tottenham assistant coach Joe Jordan after the match," the
European football authority said in a statement.
CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt want a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa during
March postponed until mid-year because of recent political upheaval that led to President Hosni
Mubarak being toppled. The record seven-time winners of the premier Pan-African national team
competition are scheduled to play the Group G leaders at an unannounced [.
HAMBURG, Germany — Frank Arnesen will take over as sporting director of Bundesliga club Hamburger
SV in the off-season, German media reported on Saturday. The 54-year-old Dane, last employed in the
same capacity by Chelsea, will receive a three-year contract, Bild said. Hamburg's first choice,
Matthias Sammer, the technical director of the German football association, [.
WASHINGTON — D.C. United assistant coach Pat Onstad is coming out of retirement because the club
is in need of healthy goalkeepers. The team said Thursday that Onstad will begin working with the
team at training camp to prepare to play in the regular season. The 43-year-old Canadian was the
oldest player in MLS when [.
FIORENTINA, Italy — Inter Milan kept up their title challenge with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at
Fiorentina on Wednesday. An own goal from Michele Camporese gave the champions the lead before
Manuel Pasquale's cross trickled over the line to restore parity. But Giampaolo Pazzini struck the
winner from close range to keep Leonardo's team in [.
MILAN, Italy - Peter Crouch's goal 10 minutes from time handed Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 win over
below-par AC Milan in a bad-tempered Champions League last-16 first leg on Tuesday. Milan
midfielder Gennaro Gattuso, who will miss the second leg after a booking, is likely to face UEFA
repercussions after appearing to headbutt Spurs assistant [.
VANCOUVER, BC Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced Nizar Khalfan and Gershon Koffie as their first two
international player signings on Wednesday. The duo became the sixth and seventh signings from last
season's USSF D-2 Pro League squad and the latest in an ever-growing pool of African MLS players.
Eschewing big name signings like David Beckham [.
LONG BEACH, Cal. The Seventh Annual Cal South Soccer Nation Expo will be taking place on Saturday
and Sunday at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center — its first year in the city.
According to organizers, the expo is the country's largest free soccer expo. To back up that point,
it was announced [.
?WOLFSBURG, Germany — Former England coach Steve McClaren was sacked by Wolfsburg on Monday, with
the club battling against relegation from the Bundesliga. "We were no longer convinced that we
could finish the season with stability by working together with Steve McClaren," the Wolfsburg
general manager Dieter Hoeness said on the club's website.
COLUMBUS, OH Columbus Crew veteran Duncan Oughton announced his retirement on Thursday, ending a
10-year career in which he became the longest-serving player in club history. Oughton will join the
Crew's front office as the assistant to the technical director, a newly created role in which he
will be involved in a variety of [.
ANTALYA, Turkey Nana Attakora scored the team's lone goal Wednesday as Toronto FC played Partizan
Belgrade to a 1-1 draw to open the Major League Soccer pre-season. The Canadian defender connected
on a corner kick in the sixth minute, but Toronto couldn't hold onto its lead as Nemanja Tomic tied
the game for the [.
LONDON, England Arsenal kept the pressure on Premier League leaders Manchester United as they came
from behind to beat Everton 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium. Everton took the lead via Louis Saha's
contentious 24th minute strike but substitute Andrey Arshavin equalised 20 minutes from time before
Laurent Koscielny headed home the winner five minutes [.
MANCHESTER Dimitar Berbatov scored a hat trick as Manchester United dominated Birmingham, 5-0, in
English Premier League action on Saturday. With the win, United stays at the top of the table, all
alone after Manchester City's loss later in the day. Arsenal actually jumped into second, two
points back of the leaders.
HARRISON, N.J. Jan Halvor Halvorsen has been hired as an assistant coach of the New York Red Bulls
under Hans Backe. Halvorsen replaces Goran Aral, who left after the 2010 season. The 45-year-old
Halvorsen has coached in Norway and Sweden since 1996, and steered Sogndal to an eighth-place
finish in the Norwegian Premier League [.
DOHA, Qatar — Uzbekistan reached the Asian Cup quarter-finals after drawing 2-2 with China in a
topsy-turvy and fiercely contested final Group A game at the Al Gharafa Stadium here on Sunday.
Having fallen behind early on, Uzbekistan equalised and then went ahead early in the second period
through a fine long-distance effort from one-time [.
LONDON, England Ben Foster handed under-pressure Avram Grant a lifeline with a huge error to gift
10-man West Ham a narrow 2-1 lead going into the second leg of their Carling Cup semi-final against
Birmingham. The England stopper, who produced a series of stunning saves in the first half, failed
to control Carlton Cole's [.
LOS ANGELES, Cal. German second-division club Ingolstadt has signed United States forward Edson
Buddle. Buddle's contract with Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy had expired. He was MLS's
leading scorer for most of last season despite missing more than a month for the World Cup. Buddle
ended the regular season as the second-highest scorer [.
LONDON, England Harry Redknapp will try to press home Tottenham's bid to sign David Beckham on
loan this week just as the Football Association was refuting claims that it was lining up the pair
to work together for England after Fabio Capello's tenure at the end of Euro 2012. Redknapp wants
to land the [.
TORONTO, Ont. Toronto FC's new head coach and technical director Aron Winter answers a question
during Thursday's press conference. (Chris Young/Canadian Press) Thursday marked a new era in the
history of the Toronto FC, with the Major League Soccer club undergoing a major managerial
makeover. TFC named former Dutch national team star Aron Winter [.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Ajax Amsterdam have confirmed Frank de Boer in the post of manager until
June 2014 to replace Martin Jol who left last month, the club said on Monday. The 40-year-old
former Dutch international, an assistant to Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk, took charge of Ajax
on a temporary basis last month.
HOFFENHEIM, Germany Hoffenheim owner Dietmar Hopp has confirmed the sale of Luiz Gustavo was one of
the main reasons for Ralf Rangnick's departure from the club. Rangnick and Hoffenheim parted
company after four and a half years together by mutual consent after the Brazilian midfielder was
sold to Bayern Munich behind the coach's back.
