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PARIS, France — French league leaders Lille saw their 13-game unbeaten run in all competitions
come to an abrupt end on Sunday as they sank to a potentially damaging 1-0 defeat at Montpellier.
Moroccan attacking midfielder Younes Belhanda claimed the game's only goal in the 84th minute,
condemning Lille to a first league defeat since [.
NEW YORK, – Today Major League Soccer and FOX Soccer announced the TV schedule for the upcoming
season. year. The premier soccer-only channel in North America will broadcast up to 31
regular-season games, plus three exclusive MLS Cup Playoff matches including a Conference Final –
all in high definition.
LONDON, England A British judge will rule Thursday whether Liverpool's former American owners can
sue in the United States over the enforced sale of the club to the Boston Red Sox ownership group.
Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. claim that an "epic swindle" by Liverpool directors and the club's
lenders led to a [.
MANCHESTER, England - Wayne Rooney said it was the best goal he had ever scored, and Manchester
United Manager Alex Ferguson called it the greatest strike he had seen in 25 years at Old Trafford.
The opposing goalkeeper did not even budge. Rooney put a troubled season behind him Saturday as his
spectacular bicycle kick [.
LONDON, England - The court battle over the sale of Liverpool resumed Wednesday with the former
American co-owners seeking approval to pursue a $1.6 billion damages claim for what they called a
"giant swindle." The case in London comes as Liverpool's fortunes on the field have been revived
for the first time since Tom Hicks [.
PORTLAND, Ore. Portland Timbers striker Bright Dike is set to miss a significant amount of the
upcoming season after suffering a torn Achilles tendon in an exhibition match. Dike underwent
successful surgery Monday. Dike sustained the injury in the 20th minute of a preseason exhibition
against the Ventura County Fusion on Friday.
?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.
LIVERPOOL/NEWCASTLE Andy Carroll last night launched a scathing attack on Newcastle United owner
Mike Ashley for selling him against his wishes to Liverpool for £35m in the most extraordinary
transfer deadline day in memory. The England striker said that he had been "pushed out the door" by
Ashley whose chairman Derek Llambias negotiated a [.
ALMATY, Kazakhstan Miroslav Beranek, who guided his native Czech Republic to a surprise European
Under-21 title triumph in 2002, was named Kazakhstan coach on Monday. Beranek, 53, takes charge of
a Kazakh team who are rooted to the bottom of Euro 2012 qualifying Group A. The Kazakhstan job had
been vacant since October following [.
It has been difficult to explain the recent down-turn in Chelsea's fortunes on the pitch these last
few months. Following a breathtaking start to the season in which they won their first five games,
and had breathing space at the top following indifferent starts by their rivals, they are now only
just recovering following a [.
CHESTER, Pa. — Goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon, the 39-year-old former starter for Colombia's national
team, has agreed to a contract with Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union along with Colombian
defender Carlos Valdes. Mondragon terminated his contract last month with Cologne in Germany's
Bundesliga.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Forgotten American defender Oguchi Onyewu made his debut for the Dutch
club Twente in a 5-0 league win over Heracles Almelo on Wednesday night. Onyewu was loaned to the
Eredivisie champion for the rest of the season on Jan. 11 by AC Milan, where he failed to make a
single appearance this [.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Forward Kenny Cooper has signed with Major League Soccer's Portland Timbers.
The 26-year-old had 40 goals in 90 games for FC Dallas from 2006-09. Cooper then signed with 1860
Munich and scored three goals in 15 games in all competitions. He spent part of this year on loan
at Plymouth as it [.
PARIS, France — French international striker Andre-Pierre Gignac finally justified his
18-million-euro transfer fee on Sunday when he scored his first home league goal for champions
Marseille in a 2-1 victory over Bordeaux. It was only Gignac's second league strike of the season
his first was at St Etienne in October although he [.
LONDON, England — An injury-time goal from Sunderland's Ghanaian international Asamoah Gyan
denied Newcastle home-and-away victories over their northeast rivals as Birmingham and Aston Villa
drew in the Premier League on Sunday. Newcastle, seeking to bounce back from their shock FA Cup
exit to lowly Stevenage last week, looked to be heading to a 1-0 [.
DOHA, Qatar — Qatar stormed into the Asian Cup quarter-finals for only the second time in their
history on Sunday with a commanding 3-0 victory over Gulf champions Kuwait, who were eliminated
from the tournament. They went through after Uzbekistan drew 2-2 with China to top Group A,
allowing Qatar to finish second and make [.
MOLDE, Norway Rising American soccer star Josh Gatt has officially joined Norwegian Division One
professional club Molde FK. Gatt, who signed his first professional contract to play with Austrian
club SCR Altach in January of 2010, has emerged this past year as one of the premier young talents
in the United States.
