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Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sportsbooks) - Boca Juniors inked forward Santiago
Silva from Italian side Fiorentina on Tuesday, but the Uruguayan will not be
eligible to play in the upcoming Clausura season.
Silva, 31, will be eligible for Copa Libertadores matches. Boca opens the Copa
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sportsbooks) - Former Argentina coach Alfio Basile
has been named new coach of Racing as the Argentine club moved quickly to find
a replacement for departed Diego Simeone.
Simeone recently left and accepted the head coaching job at Atletico Madrid in
Spain and Ba... |
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sportsbooks) - Uruguayan Jorge da Silva has been
named new manager of Banfield, just days after he surprisingly stepped down as
coach of Godoy Cruz.
Da Silva, 50, signed a one-year contract to replace former manager Ricardo La
Volpe, who guided Banfield to las... |
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Sofia, Bulgaria (Sportsbooks) - Following a 1-0 UEFA EURO 2008
qualifying win over Luxembourg on Wednesday night, Bulgarian National Team
captain Stiliyan Petrov came out to say he will retire from international
football at the ripe age of 27.
The Aston Villa midf... |
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Sofia, Bulgaria (Sportsbooks) - Just days before the start of the
Bulgarian Division I season, Lokomotiv Sofia learned that it will be without
defender Ivan Paskov for four months due to a knee injury.
The 33-year-old suffered the setback in last week's UEFA Cup qualifying ma... |
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Sofia, Bulgaria (Sportsbooks) - Levski Sofia clinched the Bulgarian
Premier League title with a 2-1 win over Botev Plovdiv on Saturday.
With two matches remaining on the schedule, Levski has an eight point lead
over second place CSKA, who lost Saturday, 1-0 to Rodopa Smolyan.
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Copenhagen, Denmark (Sportsbooks) - FC Copenhagen claimed its second
consecutive Danish title on Wednesday after defeating Brondby 1-0 to take a
13-point lead at the top of the standings with just four games to play.
After missing an opportunity to clinch the title on home s... |
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Copenhagen, Denmark (Sportsbooks) - Defending Danish Superligaen title-
holders FC Copenhagen are on the verge of two league records as the Denmark
season closes in on its conclusion.
First, if the champions win at home versus Aalborg BK on Saturday, the Lions
will defend their ... |
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Copenhagen, Denmark (Sportsbooks) - Denmark is in desperate need of two
wins when it plays against Turkey on Saturday and Georgia on Tuesday in World
Cup qualifiers.
Morten Olsen was forced to make one alteration to his original squad when
captain Per Nielsen fractured his c... |
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Enschede, Netherlands (Sportsbooks) - Luuk de Jong's hat trick propelled
Twente to a 4-1 win over Groningen on Sunday, moving the club past third-
place AZ Alkmaar on goal difference.
AZ's surprising 2-0 defeat to Roda on Saturday opened the door for Twente, and
De Jong took fu... |
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Kerkrade, Netherlands (Sportsbooks) - AZ Alkmaar failed to regain the top
spot in the Eredivisie on Saturday as the club slumped to a 2-0 defeat at
Roda.
PSV Eindhoven moved two points clear of AZ after a 3-1 victory against Vitesse
on Friday, but with a chance to take back firs... |
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Eindhoven, Netherlands (Sportsbooks) - Dries Mertens scored his 14th goal
as PSV Eindhoven defeated Vitesse, 3-1, on Friday to move into first place in
the Dutch Eredivisie.
Tim Matavz and Stanislav Manolev also scored for PSV, which could have climbed
to the top of the standings last... |
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Valenciennes, France (Sportsbooks) - Christian Kinkela scored 3 minutes
into stoppage time as 10-man Ajaccio edged Valenciennes, 2-1, on Sunday at the
Stade du Hainaut to climb out of the relegation zone in France's Ligue 1.
Ajaccio won its fourth straight during a five-game unbeaten ... |
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Brest, France (Sportsbooks) - PSG maintained its three-point lead at the
top of Ligue 1 with a 1-0 win over Brest at the Stade Francis-Le Ble on
Saturday.
It looked as if PSG would comfortably cruise to three points after Milan
Bisevac scored in the sixth minute, but t... |
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Brest, France (Sportsbooks) - PSG has continued its spending spree with the
signings of Brazilian defenders Alex and Maxwell, but will be without its most
expensive addition, Javier Pastore, on Saturday at Brest.
Pastore, acquired for approximately $55 million in the summer from Palermo, ... |
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Cologne, Germany (Sportsbooks) - Relegation-threatened Cologne received
some bad news on Sunday as it was revealed that striker Lukas Podolski will be
out for the next three weeks because of a foot injury.
Podolski scored the opening goal for Cologne four minutes into its match with
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Stuttgart, Germany (Sportsbooks) - Monchengladbach remained within one
point of the Bundesliga summit on Sunday after a 3-0 win at Stuttgart.
Mike Hanke's first-half goal gave the visitors a halftime lead before Marco
Reus and Igor de Camargo each scored in the final 10 minutes to... |
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Dortmund, Germany (Sportsbooks) - Shinji Kagawa netted a pair of goals to
lead Borussia Dortmund to a 3-1 win over Hoffenheim on Saturday at Signal-
Iduna-Park, extending Dortmund's unbeaten run to 13 games.
Goals from Kagawa and Kevin Grosskreutz in the first half gave the home sid... |
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