Soccer teams angle for Euro '08 position
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Qualifying for the 2008 European Championship is just past the halfway stage, and most of the leading teams are rising to the top of their groups.
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Italian club Lazio, England&#39;s Newcastle United and Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart are among the top group of seeds for Tuesday&#39;s UEFA Cup group draw.
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GENEVA, Switzerland : Top seeds Lazio of Italy drew last year&#39;s semi-finalists Villarreal, English Premiership side Middlesbrough and the experienced Partizan Belgrade in the UEFA Cup draw.
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The next five days present the US men&#39;s soccer team a pair of chances to reinforce why it is considered the region&#39;s top squad.
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England's four Champions League teams are in the hat for the knockout stage of the competition.
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World Cup champion Italy is held to a 1-1 tie by Lithuania during qualifying for the 2008 European Championship while Germany, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands struggle to beat underdog opponents.
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Just why the United States team is considered the favorite in the Ryder Cup is a bit of a mystery, given the simple fact that the European team is 5-3-1 in the last nine matches.
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Wales coach John Toshack has been handed a selection dilemma ahead of crucial Euro 2008 qualifiers against Slovakia on Saturday with Ryan Giggs in a race against time to be fit.
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Inter (4-4-2): Toldo, J.Zanetti, Cordoba, Materazzi, Favalli, van der Meyde, Veron, Stankovic, Emre, Vieri, Adriano. All.: Mancini. Werder Brema (4-3-1-2): Reinke, Fahrenhorst, Pasanen, Ismael, Stalteri, Borowski, Baumann, Ernst, Micoud, Klasnic, Klose.
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Sport: Lawrence Dallaglio and other old hands face a last chance to make a respectable World Cup defence, writes Robert Kitson.
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Sport: Euro 2008 qualifier: England move into second place in Group E after a convincing victory.
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NO SPECTATORS will be watching in the ground, but the eyes of Europe will be trained on Romeâs Olympic Stadium tonight as Real Madrid seek the win they probably need to avoid a humiliating, early exit from the Champions League.
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Chelsea take on Barcelona, Real Madrid face Juventus and AC Milan return to Manchester, scene of their 2003 European Cup triumph, following Friday&#39;s draw for the first knockout round of the Champions League.
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The defending Champions League winner, A.C. Milan, was given a relatively easy draw for the group stage of this seasonâs tournament.
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Some of Europe's top scorers Wednesday pushed their teams closer to places in the 2006 World Cup. Jan Koller and Dimitar Berbatov scored two goals each while Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Owen also produced goals.
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British quarter discover their fate in the Uefa Cup group stages.
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Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho expects a top team when the draw for the knockout stage of the Champions League is made. Mourinho&#39;s team cannot be drawn against another British team, one from their group or a group winner on 17 December.