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Man United gets last-gasp equalizer to thwart Chelsea
Robin van Persie rescued a point for Manchester United to keep Chelsea from moving eight points clear of defending champion Manchester City in the Premier League.Chelsea looked to have sealed the win thanks to veteran striker Didier Drogba’s header, but van Perise leveled in the fourth minute of injury time to secure a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.In Italy, league leader Juventus beat Palermo and in France Marseille missed the chance to notch a club record ninth straight win when it lost at Lyon, wh
Soccer Oct. 27, 2014
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Would soccer be richer without small clubs?
FREIBURG, Germany (AP) ― From a corner office of Freiburg’s homely stadium, club chairman Fritz Keller gazes over one of the loveliest views in football. Autumn’s reds, browns and golds streak the surrounding Black Forest. Buzzards wheel in the air above.But from a football business perspective, this beauty is sterile desert. Black Forest boars make for fine stews, but they don’t buy tickets to games. Thick woods aren’t good places to find young players who could become football’s next superstar
Soccer Oct. 24, 2014
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Ronaldo scores 70th as Real win
PARIS (AP) ― Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 70th Champions League goal and Mario Balotelli again failed to deliver as Real Madrid cruised to a 3-0 win at Liverpool on Wednesday to take complete control of Group B with a third straight win.While Tuesday night’s 40-goal bonanza never looked like being matched, there was still drama elsewhere as Arsenal scraped a 2-1 win at Anderlecht with late goals from defender Kieran Gibbs and forward Lukas Podolski ― a peripheral player this season.German sides
Soccer Oct. 23, 2014
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Ronaldo breaks record, Southampton soars 8-0
LONDON (AP) ― Cristiano Ronaldo rewrote the record books with another two goals in Real Madrid’s latest big victory in the Spanish league.Southampton crushed Sunderland 8-0 in England while Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero scored four goals and Premier League leader Chelsea escaped with a gritty victory.Ronaldo netted his 14th and 15th goals to set a record scoring start in a Spanish league season as Real Madrid eased to a 5-0 win at Levante, while Lionel Messi scored to move one goal from the co
Soccer Oct. 19, 2014
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Korean soccer team to open camp for friendlies
The men’s national soccer team will open camp Tuesday for upcoming friendly matches at home as new head coach Uli Stielike makes his South Korea debut.South Korea is scheduled to host Paraguay on Friday in Cheonan, about 90 kilometers south of Seoul, and then play Costa Rica in Seoul on Oct. 14. Both matches will kick off at 8 p.m.Stielike, the former German international named South Korean boss last month, will open training camp Tuesday at the National Football Center in Paju, north of Seoul,
Soccer Oct. 6, 2014
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Messi, Neymar score as big teams win
Record-chasing Lionel Messi and Neymar scored as Spanish league leader Barcelona eased to a 2-0 win at nine-man Rayo Vallecano on Saturday.Messi chipped goalkeeper Antonio “Tono” Rodriguez in the 35th minute for his 249th league goal, leaving him two behind the all-time scoring record held by Telmo Zarra since 1955.A minute later Neymar added his seventh league goal in as many rounds.While Messi will have to wait for his own landmark, Barcelona goalkeeper Claudio Bravo broke a league record that
Soccer Oct. 5, 2014
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United, Barca roll to victories
LONDON (AP) ― Wayne Rooney scored and then was ejected from a Premier League game for the first time in 5 1/2 years as Manchester United defeated West Ham 2-1 Saturday.Rooney put the hosts in front with a deft volley in the fifth minute, and Robin van Persie doubled the lead in the 22nd minute with his 50th goal for United. Diafra Sakho scored on a header for the Hammers in the 37th.Rooney was ejected by referee Lee Mason in the 59th minute for kicking Stewart Downing high on the leg, which woul
Soccer Sept. 28, 2014
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Leverkusen hold on, jump to second
BERLIN (AFP) ― Bayer Leverkusen were temporarily stopped by some local lightning strikes but ended up beating FC Augsburg 1-0 on Wednesday to remain on the heels of Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich. South Korean international winger Son Heung-min scored the game-winner as Leverkusen jumped to 10 points for second place, one point behind Bayern, who breezed past previous surprise leaders SC Paderborn 4-0 to move to 11 points on Tuesday. After Son scored in the 33rd minute, the Leverkusen match wa
Soccer Sept. 25, 2014
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Barca wins as Chelsea held 1-1
PARIS (AP) ― Manchester United’s new-look attack looked impressive once again only for its suspect defense to collapse in spectacular style in a 5-3 loss to newly promoted Leicester in the Premier League.The day after Cristiano Ronaldo’s hat trick helped Real Madrid thrash Deportivo La Coruna 8-2 away from home, Barcelona cruised to a 5-0 win at Levante despite a rare penalty miss from Lionel Messi, who seems to prefer setting up goals these days ― especially for Neymar.Paris Saint-Germain faile
Soccer Sept. 22, 2014
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Stielike named to head Korean football team
Former German international Uli Stielike has been named the new head coach of the South Korean men’s football team, officials said Friday.The Korea Football Association said the 59-year-old is signed through the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.Stielike fills the vacancy at the football coaching position here left by Hong Myung-bo, who resigned in early July after South Korea crashed out of the World Cup in Brazil with one draw and two losses.The KFA said Stielike will arrive in South Korea on Mond
Soccer Sept. 5, 2014
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Korea’s Asiad soccer squad opens camp
The South Korean men’s Asiad soccer team opened its training camp Monday, launching a quest to end the country’s 28-year gold medal drought in the quadrennial competition.The 20-man squad, coached by Lee Kwang-jong, has been paired in Group A with Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Laos. The top two teams from the group will reach the round of 16.This year’s Asian Games will open on Sept. 19 in Incheon, a metropolitan city west of Seoul, but the football tournament will kick off Sept. 14, with South Kor
Soccer Sept. 1, 2014
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Chelsea wins big
LONDON (AP) ― Chelsea showed off its newfound attacking sparkle in a 6-3 win over Everton on the day Manchester City slipped to a surprise first defeat in its Premier League title defense.City’s 1-0 home loss to Stoke on Saturday was exacerbated by its title rival’s wild victory at Goodison Park, in which Spain striker Diego Costa scored in the first and last minutes to continue the superb start to his Chelsea career.Another big-money arrival in English football, Angel Di Maria, made a promising
Soccer Aug. 31, 2014
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Nexen Tire expands football marketing in Europe
Nexen Tire Corp., South Korea’s smallest tiremaker, said Tuesday it has stepped up football marketing in Europe as part of its strategy to raise brand equity and sales.The company, which recently inked a 1.2 trillion won ($1.17 billion) deal to build a tire production plant in the Czech Republic, said it has started advertising at football stadiums of nine professional teams belonging to Britain’s Premier League, Spain’s Primera Liga, Germany’s Bundesliga and Italy’s Serie A.It said LED ads with
Industry Aug. 26, 2014
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Messi scores twice to start campaign in Spain
LONDON (AP) ― Lionel Messi and Barcelona are already up and running at full speed in the Spanish league. Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United is still stumbling out of the blocks in the Premier League.Messi scored two goals in a comfortable win over Elche, and United is still looking for its first victory of the season after being held to a draw by Sunderland.Messi helped 10-man Barcelona start the Spanish league with a 3-0 win over Elche in the debut of coach Luis Enrique, with the Argentina star
Soccer Aug. 25, 2014
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Chelsea secures 2nd straight win
LONDON (AP) ― Chelsea welcomed back club great Didier Drogba to Stamford Bridge on Saturday but it was another striker who maintained the team’s winning start to the Premier League season.Scoring for the second straight game, Diego Costa set Chelsea on its way to a 2-0 home victory over Leicester to join Swansea with back-to-back wins after two rounds.The Spanish league got underway with Malaga’s eventful win over Athletic Bilbao and the German league was treated to its quickest goal ever.Costa
Soccer Aug. 24, 2014
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Neymar, Suarez back on the pitch
BARCELONA (AP) ― Neymar and Luis Suarez played for the first time since their dramatic World Cup exits, with the Brazilian star scoring twice Monday and showing no signs of his devastating back injury in Barcelona’s 6-0 rout of Mexican champion Leon in a preseason tuneup.The last time Suarez played he infamously bit an Italian opponent at the World Cup, drawing a four-month ban from competitive matches.The Uruguayan striker, who has since transferred to Barcelona from Liverpool, was cheered by h
Soccer Aug. 19, 2014
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Ki scores as United upset
MANCHESTER, England (AP) ― Louis van Gaal lost his first Premier League game with Manchester United on Saturday, with Swansea winning 2-1 to become the first away team since 1972 to open the season with a victory at Old Trafford.Gylfi Sigurdsson took advantage of poor defending to score the Welsh club’s winning goal in the 72nd minute. United captain Wayne Rooney had tied the match after Ki Sung-yueng opened the scoring.“We never played as a team, that is our error,” van Gaal told BT Sport telev
Soccer Aug. 17, 2014
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Reigning Korean league MVP named to Asiad soccer squad
Kim Shin-wook, the reigning MVP of the top-flight South Korean soccer league, was selected on Thursday to represent the country at the upcoming Asian Games on home soil.Kim, the striker for Ulsan Hyundai in the K League Classic, was one of the 20 players named to South Korea’s Asiad men’s football team. Head coach Lee Kwang-jong announced his roster at a press conference at the Korea Football Association headquarters in Seoul.Incheon, a metropolitan city west of Seoul, will host the 17th Asian G
More Sports Aug. 14, 2014
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German club refuses to release Son for Asiad
German football club Bayer Leverkusen has refused to release its South Korean star, Son Heung-min, for the upcoming Asian Games, officials here said Wednesday, throwing the host country’s chance of ending its gold medal drought into doubt.In a statement, the Korea Football Association said the Bundesliga team informed the South Koreans that it would not make Son available for the Sept. 19-Oct. 4 continental competition to be held in Incheon, west of Seoul.The KFA said it first received a rejecti
Soccer Aug. 13, 2014
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Donovan says he’ll retire after season
CARSON, California (AP) ― Landon Donovan, widely considered as America’s best ever footballer, will retire at the end of the MLS season. The 32-year-old LA Galaxy forward is the top goalscorer in MLS history and a five-time league champion. “I feel incredibly blessed and lucky to have played a role in the remarkable growth of MLS and U.S. Soccer during my playing career,” Donovan said in a statement on his Facebook page. “And while my career as a player will soon be over, rest assured I will sta
Soccer Aug. 8, 2014
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