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Defender Evans looking to build on glowing reputation
London - For other Manchester United players Wednesday's Champions League game against Besiktas might be a weary ritual, but for Jonny Evans it is another chance to impress. United have already qualified for the knockout stage, and are playing only t...
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ANALYSIS: The Big Five: Stadiums could become white elephants
Johannesburg - Are the new stadiums built for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, a country where football jostles with rugby and cricket for audience, destined to become white elephants after the month-long tournament?That's the 12.1-billion-rand, o...
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South Africans embrace football kulcha - Feature
Soweto, Johannesburg - Orlando Stadium, Soweto, on a Saturday afternoon in October. The foghorn of hundreds of plastic trumpets, called vuvuzelas, wafts up out of the stands across the sprawling township as if calling Sowetans to prayer. Men and wome...
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Stars that won't be shining - Feature
Hamburg - Andrei Arshavin, Zlatan Ibrahomovic and Andriy Shevchenko are just three of the world's most prominent footballers who will be missing the World Cup. Arshavin, 28, and his Russian teammates dazzled at Euro 2008 for a place in the semi-final...
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On high alert: World Cup security concerns - Feature
Johannesburg - The author of an article in Britain's Guardian newspaper on the subject of why going to South Africa for the World Cup terrifies me must have been thinking last week she spoke too soon. In the July 7 article, which caused outrage in ...
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BACKGROUND: World Cup history - Germany's 'miracle' and Pele
The 1954 tournament turned out to be an even more surprising World Cup than 1950, because hot favourites Hungary were beaten 3-2 in the Berne final - since dubbed the miracle of Berne in Germany - by a West German side t...
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BACKGROUND: It's all in the balls
Hamburg - The draw for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, consisting of the 32 teams that qualify, will be held in Cape Town's International Convention Centre (CTICC) on December 4. Although the exact procedure for the draw has yet to be clarified b...
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