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WARSAW, Poland — Polish second division stragglers Warta Poznan may have found a secret weapon as
they battle to avoid the drop: a former Playboy cover star. Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska, 33, has been
named club chair and is pledging to run a tight ship to try to save Warta from relegation.
Lukomska-Pyzalska told the rolling news [.
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 [.
DOHA, Qatar Mile Jedinak's first-half goal against Bahrain at Al Sadd Stadium was enough to send
Australia through to the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup. The Genclerbirligi midfielder scored his
second goal in as many games to ensure the Socceroos finish top of Group C and go through to the
last eight unbeaten following [.
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.
ROTTERDAM The agony of Feyenoord Rotterdam does not end. Today, a new chapter was added to the
story of the declining club. Three days after the hopeless 2-0 defeat at Ajax, the fans saw De
Graafschap was too strong: 0-1. "Shame on you, shame on you', rolled it from the angry stands. The
only [...]
BARCELONA, Spain Pedro Rodriquez scored twice as Barcelona made heavy weather of beating promoted
Levante 2-1 to move five points clear at the top of La Liga on Sunday. The champions, with 46
points from 17 matches, pulled away from second-placed Real Madrid which visits local rivals Getafe
on Monday.
DOHA, Qatar Gulf Cup champions and strong contenders Kuwait never recovered from a 35th minute
marching orders of their inspirational defender Mesaed Nada and succumbed to a 0-2 defeat to China
in a Group A match of the Asian Cup here on Saturday. Kuwait became the second Gulf team to suffer
a loss after [.
ROME, Italy — AC Milan grabbed an injury-time leveller to share a 4-4 draw with Udinese at the
San Siro on Sunday in a thrilling game that gave them a six-point lead at the top of Serie A.
Udinese had led 3-1 at one stage and also moved into stoppage time with a 4-3 lead [...]
BERLIN — Borussia Dortmund were 13 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday after
second-placed Mainz lost at Stuttgart and champions Bayern Munich drew 1-1 at Wolfsburg in a game
where both sides missed penalties. Borussia had blitzed Leverkusen with three goals in six minutes
on Friday as Jurgen Klopp's young side [.
MILAN, Italy Inter Milan routed visiting Bologna 4-1 in the Serie A on Saturday and continued its
winning run since Leonardo took over as coach. Leonardo replaced Rafa Benitez on Christmas Eve and
Inter has since won all four of its games to move to eight points behind league leader AC Milan,
which was [.
DOHA, Qatar — Reigning champions Iraq stunned the United Arab Emirates 1-0 on Saturday at the
Asian Cup with an injury-time own-goal to put the holders in a strong position to make the knockout
rounds. Three-times champions Iran became the first team at the championships to qualify for the
quarter-finals after they defeated World Cup [.
MUNICH, Germany — Bayern Munich midfielder Franck Ribery admitted Sunday he was relieved his knee
injury is only expected to keep him out of training for five days. The Frenchman was helped off the
pitch after 25 minutes of Bayern's 1-1 draw with Wolfsburg on Saturday in the Bundesliga and the
German champions were bracing [.
MADRID, Spain Barcelona took advantage of Real Madrid's surprise draw at Almeria to move four
points clear at the top of the Primera Division. The Catalans swept aside Malaga 4-1 at the Nou
Camp after Madrid were made to settle for a 1-1 draw against the league's bottom side. Pep
Guardiola's men put Malaga [.
DOHA, Qatar — Shinji Okazaki scored a hat trick and Ryoichi Maeda struck twice to give Japan a
5-0 victory over Saudi Arabia on Monday and a place in the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup. Japan
will play host Qatar on Friday after completely dominating its last Group B match. "We improved
with every game [.
GRONINGEN, Netherlands Eredivisie high-flyers FC Groningen had to come from behind to get past SC
Genemuiden and book their place in the quarter-finals of the KNVB Beker. Florencio Cornelia gave
the third-tier side a shock lead midway through the first half but Groningen showed their class by
turning the game on its head before [.
PARIS, France — Montpellier moved to within one win of their first trophy in over 20 years on
Tuesday as they beat 10-man Paris Saint Germain in their French League Cup semi-final. A header by
Olivier Giroud four minutes from the end of extra-time handed Montpellier who won the second of
their French Cups [.
NEWCASTLE, England Newcastle manager Alan Pardew fears Alan Smith could be out for the season with
the ankle injury he sustained in last weekend's derby against Sunderland. The midfielder had a scan
on the joint on Wednesday and complications from a previous injury mean his absence is likely to be
far longer than first [.
DEN HAAG, Netherlands ADO Den Haag climbed into seventh in the Eredivisie with a comfortable 3-1
victory over Heerenveen. Danny Buijs gave the hosts a first-half lead before Charlton Vicento
doubled their advantage shortly after the break. Bas Dost grabbed a goal back for Heerenveen but
Lex Immers struck to seal Den Haag's success.
MUNICH, Germany — Bayern Munich's Mario Gomez hit a hat-trick as the defending champions went
third in the Bundesliga with a 5-1 win over Kaiserslautern on Saturday as leaders Borussia Dortmund
drew 1-1 with Stuttgart. Despite being held, the leaders remain 13 points clear at the top with
Bayern 14 points behind after Gomez netted [.
DOHA, Qatar — Substitute midfielder Yoon Bit-garam drilled a left-foot shot from the edge of
the penalty box in extra time Saturday to send South Korea into the semifinals of the Asian Cup
with a 1-0 victory over perennial rival Iran. Yoon found the into the lower right corner of the net
during injury time [.
ROME, iTALY — Roma kept themselves in the Serie A title hunt as a 3-0 win over Cagliari at the
Stadio Olimpico on Saturday took them up to second, for a day at least. Club captain Francesco
Totti scored the opener from the spot and Simone Perrotta was gifted the second after a horror
mistake [...]
LEVERKUSEN, Germany — Michael Ballack returned from injury on Sunday as Bayer Leverkusen went
second in the Bundesliga with a 3-1 win at bottom side Moenchengladbach to trim Dortmund's lead at
the top to 11 points. Germany captain Ballack made a low-key return after suffering a fractured leg
which has kept him out since September [.
MADRID, Spain — Misfit striker Karim Benzema reminded Jose Mourinho of his talents on Sunday,
scoring the 60th-minute goal in Real Madrid's 1-0 win over Real Mallorca which cut Barcelona's lead
back to four points. Mourinho said Benzema, a 35-million euro signing from Lyon, needed to step up
his game and the 23-year-old responded as [.
ROME, Italy – Udinese ended Leonardo's perfect record since taking over as Inter Milan coach with
a 3-1 win over the Italian champions on Sunday while city rivals Milan retained their four-point
lead at the top. Inter, aiming for a sixth straight win since the Brazilian's arrival in the San
Siro dugout, took the lead [.
BOLTON Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda, Nicolas Anelka and Ramires were all on target as Chelsea
ended their miserable run of away form with a 4-0 victory at Bolton here on Monday to keep alive
their dim hopes of the Premier League title. Carlo Ancelotti's side had fallen away from contention
for the title with [.
MUNICH, Germany — Bayern Munich captain Mark van Bommel on Tuesday joined Italian side AC Milan,
five months before his contract was due to expire, the German giants have announced. "It was Mark's
express wish to be released from his contract early for sporting reasons, in order to be able to
move to AC Milan [.
DOHA, Qatar — Australia stormed into their first Asian Cup final on Tuesday with a 6-0 thrashing
of 10-man Uzbekistan to set up a decider against three-time champions Japan. Galatasary forward
Harry Kewell got the opener on five minutes and Asian player of the year Sasa Ognenovski doubled
their lead 11 minutes before half-time.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Miralem Sulejmani scored a goal in each half as holders Ajax Amsterdam came
from behind to beat NAC Breda 4-1 on Thursday to reach the Dutch Cup semi-finals. Fouad Idabdelhay
put Breda ahead after eight minutes when he broke through the Amsterdam defence and beat goalkeeper
Maarten Stekelenburg.
MUNICH, Germany — Bayern Munich had to come from behind on Saturday to win 3-1 at Werder Bremen,
while Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund kept up their domination with a 3-0 win at Wolfsburg.
Bremen's Per Mertesacker went from joy to despair as his opening goal just after the break was
cancelled out by an Arjen [.
LONDON, England Holders Chelsea needed a late equalizer by Salomon Kalou to snatch a 1-1 draw that
kept it in the FA Cup after a Louis Saha header had put Everton on course for a fourth-round upset
at Goodison Park. In another of the weekend's five all-Premier League ties Aston Villa beat
Blackburn Rovers [.
ROME, Italy — Giampaolo Pazzini scored a brace on his debut as Inter Milan fought back from a
two-goal half-time deficit to beat Palermo 3-2 on Sunday. The win kept the champions in the title
race following leaders AC Milan's 2-0 win at Catania on Saturday, leaving them nine points behind
but with a game [.
PARIS, France — Marseille boss Didier Deschamps admitted his team flopped in front of Sir Alex
Ferguson on Sunday as the Manchester United boss scouted his Champions League opponents. Marseille
drew 0-0 at relegation-haunted Monaco, a result which left the French champions in fifth place in
the table.
