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The future is now
Son Heung-min is part of a new wave of players aiming to enhance South Korea’s status at the World Cup, no longer content with merely being Asia’s most successful performer on soccer’s biggest stage.The South Koreans have progressed past the group stage in two of the last three World Cups, reaching the semifinals as cohost in 2002 and the last 16 in 2010.Approaching its eighth consecutive appearance at the World Cup, South Korea boasts a young team full of players with European experience and le
Soccer April 13, 2014
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Chelsea takes lead in EPL
LONDON (AP) ― Chelsea reclaimed the lead in England ― at least for a day ― Atletico Madrid remained in front in Spain and Bayern Munich’s record 53-game unbeaten run in the Bundesliga ended with a 1-0 loss to Augsburg on Saturday.Chelsea provisionally dislodged Liverpool from the top spot by cruising to a 3-0 victory over Stoke, while title rival Manchester City routed Southampton 4-1.Atletico found it tougher, only overcoming Villarreal 1-0, while Barcelona beat Real Betis 3-1 and Real Madrid r
Soccer April 6, 2014
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Chelsea loses but stays top; Spain’s leading 3 win
LONDON (AP) ― While Spain’s top three all won, none of the England’s leading sides could produce a victory on Saturday.Chelsea remains top of the Premier League despite losing 1-0 at lowly Crystal Palace after title rivals Arsenal and Manchester City drew 1-1, presenting Liverpool with the chance to go top on Sunday with a win at Tottenham.La Liga’s star forward all found the net as Diego Costa’s Atletico Madrid remained top, followed by Lionel Messi’s Barcelona, and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Real Mad
Soccer March 30, 2014
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Madrid slips in race as Barca rolls
BARCELONA (AP) ― Real Madrid lost 2-1 at Sevilla on Wednesday to slip behind Atletico Madrid and Barcelona in the race for the Spanish league title Wednesday.Cristiano Ronaldo put Madrid in charge with his league-leading 27th goal of the season in the 14th minute, but Sevilla striker Carlos Bacca scored twice, in the 19th and 73rd, to complete the comeback.Diego Costa’s second-half header gave Atletico a 1-0 victory at home over Granada as it moved three points clear of Madrid with eight rounds
Soccer March 27, 2014
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Messi’s hat trick guides Barca
LONDON (AP) ― Living up to the “clasico” billing, Lionel Messi upstaged Cristiano Ronaldo on his own turf to reassert Barcelona’s title credentials on Sunday.Messi scored a hat trick, including two penalties, as Barca won 4-3 in an entertaining and at times controversial encounter at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, where the host finished with 10 men.And having been written off too early in its title defense, Barca is now just a point behind Madrid rivals Atletico and Real at the top. The match t
Soccer March 24, 2014
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Chelsea rolls as ref ejects wrong player
LONDON (AP) ― While Bayern Munich is close to wrapping up the Bundesliga title, the English Premier League remains unpredictable and full of drama.Arsene Wenger’s 1,000th match in charge of Arsenal ended in one of his heaviest humiliations ― a 6-0 collapse at Chelsea ― and included the referee ejecting the wrong player from Arsenal on Saturday.Although Luis Suarez scored three of Liverpool’s six against Cardiff and Yaya Toure claimed a hat trick for Manchester City against Fulham, the goal of th
Soccer March 23, 2014
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Kim Shin-wook stretches scoring streak as Brazil World Cup nears
There are several South Korean footballers plying their trade in Europe and Asia, but the hottest player for the country today is based in the domestic league.Kim Shin-wook, a striker for Ulsan Hyundai in the top-flight K League Classic, scored in his fourth straight game on Sunday, helping his club to a 3-0 win over Gyeongnam FC at home and further improving his chances of making the South Korean team for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil this summer.Kim has netted a goal in each of Ulsan’s first tw
Soccer March 17, 2014
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Bayern Munich president admits to evading taxes
BERLIN (AP) ― Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness admitted Monday to dodging millions of euros (dollars) in taxes through an undeclared Swiss bank account at a trial that could see one of the most powerful figures in German soccer receive a lengthy prison sentence.Prosecutor Achim von Engel told the Munich state court that Hoeness evaded 3.5 million euros ($4.9 million) in taxes by concealing 33 million euros income in the Swiss bank account, the dpa news agency reported. Hoeness reported himsel
World News March 11, 2014
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Barca stumbles again
LONDON (AP) ― Bayern Munich has virtually wrapped up the German league title, the French championship is Paris Saint-Germain’s to lose and there’s seemingly no stopping Chelsea’s march to the English Premier League trophy.As for Spain, however, who knows where the title will end up after Barcelona lost on Saturday for the third time in six games.Barcelona’s title defense took a blow when it stumbled to a 1-0 defeat at Valladolid, missing the chance to move to the top of the Spanish standings.Lio
Soccer March 9, 2014
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Bundesliga's Bayer Leverkusen to visit Seoul in summer
Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen will visit Seoul this summer to play a South Korean opponent, the German team announced Friday.On its website, Bayer Leverkusen, which has two South Korean players, Son Heung-min and Ryu Seung-woo, said it will face FC Seoul of the K League Classic on July 30."(Son) can expect a hero's welcome when die Werkself travel to the South Korean capital Seoul as part of the club's preseason preparations this summer," Bayer Leverkusen said, referring to itself by the Germ
Soccer March 7, 2014
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Few passing grades for Korea in football win over Greece
South Korea may have defeated Greece 2-0 in their pre-World Cup match on Wednesday in Athens, but it was a misleading result that masked some of the side’s problems.And if this game was indeed the final test for players hoping to make the World Cup team ― as head coach Hong Myung-bo had often said ― then only a few players earned passing grades. Others failed spectacularly.Forward Park Chu-young, who opened the scoring in the 17th, deserves an A, though he only played the opening half.In his fir
Soccer March 6, 2014
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Madrid, Robben headline soccer poll
LONDON (AP) ― Real Madrid’s 6-1 thrashing of Schalke followed by its 2-2 draw with La Liga title rival Atletico Madrid sent it to the top of this week’s Associated Press global soccer poll.Madrid edged Bayern Munich by three points to take team of the week honors for the second time this season.It was even closer in the player poll, where Munich’s Arjen Robben beat Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo by two votes.Robben scored a hat trick in Bayern’s 5-1 Bundesliga victory, also against Schalke, and runn
Soccer March 5, 2014
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Man City wins League Cup title
LONDON (AP) ― Manchester City staged a second-half comeback to beat Sunderland 3-1 in the League Cup final on Sunday, with exquisite goals from Yaya Toure and Samir Nasri inside two minutes sparking the recovery.Returning to the stadium where Roberto Mancini’s City career ended in an FA Cup final loss last May, further Wembley misery appeared to be beckoning when Fabio Borini put Premier League struggler Sunderland in front after 10 minutes.Instead, City, which has now scored 121 goals this seas
Soccer March 3, 2014
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Chelsea builds lead in EPL
LONDON (AP) ― As the tightest English Premier League title race in years is playing out, the Bundesliga is witnessing its most one-sided.Although Chelsea moved four points clear at the top of the English standings with a 3-1 victory at Fulham on Saturday, Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City remain in close reach. In Germany, though, Bayern Munich powered a Bundesliga record 20-points clear after 23 games by beating Schalke 5-1.Chelsea recovered from a sluggish first-half performance to see of
Soccer March 2, 2014
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Real thumps Schalke
GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) ― With an overwhelming offensive display, Real Madrid became the first road team to score six goals in a knockout-stage game of the Champions League and put itself in position for its fourth straight trip to the quarterfinals.Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema scored two goals each Wednesday night in a 6-1 rout of Schalke in the first leg of its second-round matchup.“We played a very, very good match,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. “We got well into
Soccer Feb. 27, 2014
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Chelsea stays on top of table
LONDON (AP) ― Wins by Chelsea and Manchester City, and a potent attacking display by Arsenal, left the top of the Premier League unchanged Saturday.Chelsea leads the way after captain John Terry clinched a 1-0 victory over Everton in stoppage time by bundling in from Frank Lampard’s cross, with goalkeeper Tim Howard’s body helping to turn the ball into the net.Arsenal is just a point behind its London rival as Olivier Giroud scored twice in his return to the starting lineup in a 4-1 victory over
Soccer Feb. 23, 2014
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Arsenal misses chance to go top
LONDON (AP) ― Arsenal and Manchester United played to a scoreless draw that frustrated both teams, while Liverpool beat Fulham 3-2 on Wednesday to return to the Premier League title race.Fourth-place Liverpool came from behind twice to maintain its three-point lead over Tottenham, which won 4-0 at Newcastle. Liverpool’s last-gasp win, secured by Steven Gerrard’s penalty, left Brendan Rodgers’ side four points behind league leader Chelsea.Arsenal missed the chance to go to the top after Chelsea’s
Soccer Feb. 13, 2014
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Ronaldo propels Real Madrid into Copa del Rey final
MADRID (AP) ― Cristiano Ronaldo helped Real Madrid reach its third Copa del Rey final in four seasons with a 2-0 win over Atletico Madrid on Tuesday and a 5-0 victory on aggregate.Ronaldo, who was hit on the head by a cigarette lighter at halftime, converted a pair of early penalties at the Vicente Calderon to put the match beyond Atletico’s reach.Atletico beat Madrid at its Santiago Bernabeu Stadium to lift the trophy last season, but exits the domestic cup competition with doubts about its sur
Soccer Feb. 12, 2014
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Messi nets 2 as Barca fights back
BARCELONA (AP) ― Lionel Messi scored two goals and set up another to lead Barcelona to a 4-1 comeback victory at Sevilla on Sunday, moving the defending champions into a three-way tie for the Spanish league lead.Despite Barcelona showing the same vulnerability in defense, Messi’s best performance since returning from a lengthy injury layoff ensured that his side bounced back from a defeat by Valencia in the previous round. Barcelona is now level with Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the top of
Soccer Feb. 10, 2014
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Chelsea moves to top of EPL
LONDON (AP) ― This season at Chelsea, the Special One might well be Eden Hazard. The Belgium international produced another superb display on Saturday, scoring a hat trick as Jose Mourinho’s team moved top of the Premier League with a 3-0 win over Newcastle while its main rivals in the race for the title struggled on the road.Liverpool exposed previous leader Arsenal’s frailties in a 5-1 drubbing of the Gunners at Anfield and third-placed Manchester City was held to a goalless draw at Norwich.Ha
Soccer Feb. 9, 2014
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