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GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany Schalke goalkeeper Manuel Neuer's unwillingness to commit his future to the
club has angered fans for a while now and during the celebration in Gelsenkirchen on Sunday after
Saturday's DFB Pokal win, one supporter made his slappy feelings very clear to Neuer's face. The
Bayern Munich and Manchester United target rode in [.
MOSCOW, Russia Seydou Doumbia struck in each half to secure CSKA Moscow a 2-1 win over second
division side Alania Vladikavkaz in the Russian Cup final on Sunday. The Ivory Coast striker opened
the scoring with a low shot following good work by Brazilian forward Vagner Love in the 13th minute
but Love's compatriot [.
LONDON, England Goals from Kim Little and Julie Fleeting saw Arsenal reclaim the FA Women's Cup
with a 2-0 victory over Bristol Academy at the Ricoh Arena. The Gunners had lost out to Everton in
extra-time in last year's final, but they put that heartache behind them to secure a comfortable
win. Saturday's success [.
LEYTON, England Leyton Orient's players will be jetting off to Las Vegas after hitting the FA Cup
jackpot by securing a £1 million replay against Arsenal. Jonathan Tehoue grabbed a dramatic
89th-minute equaliser for the East London club to give Orient a 1-1 draw with Arsenal that earns
them a replay against Arsene Wenger's [.
LONDON, England — A double by England striker Carlton Cole inspired Premier League strugglers
West Ham to a 5-1 thrashing of Championship side Burnley and earn them a place in the FA Cup
quarter-finals here on Monday. The 27-year-old struck in the 48th and 50th minutes to add to German
Thomas Hitzlsperger's opener on his [.
LONDON, England Manchester United will face the winners of the tie between Arsenal and Leyton
Orient in the FA Cup quarter-finals, throwing up the possibility that the Premier League's top two
sides could clash at Old Trafford. The two great rivals last met in the competition when United
defeated Arsenal 4-0 in the fifth [.
MANCHESTER, England Richard Brodie might have supplied a dream finale in stoppage time, but his
header came back off the United crossbar. Nonetheless, Steve Evans's players deserve enormous
credit after defying the 93 league places between the sides with a superb display. Although they
did not see the giantkilling they travelled north for, the [.
WIGAN, England — Ivan Klasnic fired Bolton Wanderers to a 1-0 win over Wigan Athletic in their FA
Cup fourth-round replay at the DW Stadium on Wednesday. Owen Coyle's side can look forward to a
fifth-round trip to Fulham this weekend thanks to Croatian striker Klasnic's second-half winner.
While Wanderers' Wembley bid remains alive, Wigan [.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Johan Cruyff has returned to Ajax on an advisory basis after agreeing to
become a member of one of three "sounding board groups". A meeting on Thursday night between
general manager Rik van den Boog, Ajax's board of directors and Cruyff confirmed the former Holland
playmaker's willingness to advise on technical issues.
BARCELONA, Spain It's not like it was a gigantic to surprise to any experts who bet on soccer or
any soccer fans in general, but it's still worth noting: Barcelona has advanced to the Copa del Rey
final. Barcelona already had an astounding 5-0 lead over Almeria after the first leg between the
teams [.
MADRID, Spain — Real Madrid will face arch rivals Barcelona in a mouthwatering Kings Cup final
after Jose Mourinho's Madrid side defeated holders Sevilla 2-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu on
Wednesday to reach their first final since 2004. Togo forward Emmanuel Adebayor scored his first
Real goal deep in stoppage time to add to an [.
PARIS, France — Fifth division amateurs Chambery continued their dream French Cup run on
Wednesday, a 2-1 victory over Sochaux seeing them progress into the quarter-finals. Sochaux became
Chambery's third first division scalp after they had previously knocked out Monaco and Brest. It is
the first time a club as lowly as the Savoyards has [.
LONDON, England — Edin Dzeko opened his goalscoring account for Manchester City to salvage a 1-1
draw with Notts County as Tottenham were sent crashing out of the FA Cup in a humiliating 4-0 rout
by Fulham on Sunday. Bosnian striker Dzeko netted in the 80th minute to rescue City, who were left
staring down [.
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 [.
LUBUMSASHI, DR Congo Morocco and South africa will host the 2015 and 2017 editions of the Nations
Cup respectively Morocco have won the right to stage the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations while South
Africa will host the 2017 edition. The decision was taken at a meeting of the executive committee
of the Confederation [.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Veteran goalkeeper Muteba Kidiaba starred as Club World Cup runners-up
TP Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of Congo collected a seventh African title Saturday.
Kidiaba saved a shootout kick against FUS Rabat from Morocco in southern Congolese city Lubumbashi
and then converted a penalty to give his team a 9-8 victory [.
ROME, Italy — AS Roma booked an Italian Cup semi-final against Inter Milan on Thursday after a
2-0 win at Juventus achieved with second-half goals from Montenegrin Mirko Vucinic and Rodrigo
Taddei. Vucinic bagged the opener after 65 minutes after taking a pass from Daniele De Rossi in his
stride and Taddei then produced an [.
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.
ROME, Italy — Italian football badboy Antonio Cassano celebrated his return to his former club
Sampdoria on Wednesday as his new team AC Milan ran out 2-1 winners in their Italian Cup
quarter-final. Brazilian striker Pato struck twice Sampdoria's new signing Massimo Maccarone
getting the hosts goal to give Cassano some revenge against [.
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands FC Twente progressed as the top two in the Eredivisie met in the last eight
of the KNVB Beker, securing a 7-6 triumph over PSV Eindhoven in a penalty shootout after the game
had ended 1-1. Midfielder Theo Janssen put Twente ahead from the penalty spot after 70 minutes but
a last-gasp [.
BERLIN, Italy — German Cup holders Bayern Munich booked their semi-final berth on Wednesday with
a comfortable 4-0 win at second division Alemannia Aachen as the German giants began life without
Mark van Bommel. After their Dutch captain's shock exit on Tuesday, when he signed for AC Milan
until the end of the season, Germany [.
BARCELONA, Spain — Karim Benzema led Real Madrid to a 1-0 win at Sevilla before Barcelona rolled
over Almeria 5-0 in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday. Benzema, the much-questioned
France striker, answered his critics with a valuable away goal in the 17th minute of the first-leg
match at Sanchez Pizjuan stadium.
BIRMINGHAM, England Birmingham's Craig Gardner booked a League Cup final showdown against Arsenal
as his extra-time goal sealed a 3-1 victory over West Ham in Wednesday's semi-final second leg that
secured a 4-3 aggregate win. Gardner, a boyhood Birmingham fan, capped an impressive fightback from
Alex McLeish's side, who can now look forward to [.
LONDON, England Arsenal secured their place in the League Cup final after sweeping aside Ipswich
with a 3-0 win in the semi-final second leg at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday. Ipswich had an
upset in their sights when the Championship side reached half-time at 0-0, but second half goals
from Nicklas Bendtner, Laurent Koscielny [.
MILAN, Italy Ajax midfielder Urby Emanuelson is going to AC Milan. The Dutch player signed a 3,5
year contract. The 24-year-old can play at left-wing, left-back, wing-back or in midfield. "He was
one of our objectives in the transfer market and I am happy for him to come," said coach
Massimiliano Allegri.
PARIS, France — Fifth-tier Chambery claimed another major French Cup scalp on Saturday, following
up a success over Monaco with a penalty shootout win over another top flight side in Brest to reach
the last 16 along with fellow amateurs Drancy. Bordeaux promptly became the 12th first division
side to exit the tournament after they [.
LEEDS, England — Samir Nasri helped Arsenal overcome a potentially tricky FA Cup third round
replay as Arsene Wenger's side defeated Leeds 3-1 on Wednesday to book a fourth round date with
Huddersfield. After being held 1-1 by Simon Grayson's Championship team at the Emirates 11 days
earlier and losing to Ipswich in the League [.
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 [.
SEVILLE, Spain Sevilla reached the Copa del Rey semifinals for the fourth time in five seasons
after beating Villarreal 3-0 on Tuesday and 6-3 on aggregate. Villarreal needed victory at the
Sanchez Pizjuan stadium but saw its hopes deflated from the 10th minute following Renato's opener.
Villarreal created opportunities but the holders put the [.
NEW YORK, NY CONCACAF wants FIFA to award them an extra place at the next World Cup, giving the
region four guaranteed places for the 2014 tournament in Brazil. Under the previous qualifying
format used for the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, the Confederation of North, Central American and
Caribbean Association Football was awarded [.
IPSWICH, England Tamas Priskin fired Championship strugglers Ipswich to a deserved win over a
strong Arsenal side in Wednesday night's Carling Cup semi-final first leg at Portman Road. The
Tractors boys had been thrashed 7-0 at Chelsea in their FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday after
axing Roy Keane.
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 [.
LONDON, England Giant-killers Stevenage have been rewarded with a home tie against Reading in the
fourth round of the FA Cup. Graham Westley's Stevenage take on Championship Reading looking for a
repeat of their famous victory over Newcastle on Saturday. Manchester United, fresh from their home
win over Liverpool, face a tough trip to [.
LIVERPOOL, England — The Football Association will open an investigation after Liverpool winger
Ryan Babel posted a digitally altered picture on Twitter of referee Howard Webb wearing a
Manchester United shirt. Webb awarded a penalty against Liverpool and later sent off its captain
Steven Gerrard as Man United won 1-0 in the third round of [.
MANCHESTER, England Manchester United ruined Kenny Dalglish's first game back in charge of
Liverpool with a 1-0 win at Old Trafford in the third round of the FA Cup. Manchester United ruined
Kenny Dalglish's first game back in charge of Liverpool with a 1-0 win at Old Trafford in the third
round of the [.
LONDON, England The Football Association will launch an investigation after a Stevenage player was
punched by a fan while celebrating the shock FA Cup victory against Newcastle. Defender Scott Laird
was floored by the blow following the final whistle as the League Two side celebrated their 3-1 win
over their Premier League opposition.
MADRID, Spain Real Madrid, cushioned by an 8-0 first leg lead, secured their place in the Spanish
Cup quarterfinals on Thursday despite a 2-0 defeat in the return match at Levante. Levante's two
second-half goals by Xisco Nadal and Sergio Gonzalez were not enough to overturn Real's huge
advantage secured over the Valencia-based side [.
