MSN UK News - Giovanni Trapattoni is to become coach of Ireland’s national team and will face his former team Italy in qualifying for the World Cup. Trapattoni, who has won 10 club titles as a coach and two European Cups as a player, will leave Austrian team

Congress has good reason to intervene with baseball
Sports Illustrated - A great many countries have a ministry of sports which oversees athletics, and in nations where soccer is uber alles — which is most of them — the country’s soccer coach is often a national figure on the par with the prime minister. While we don’t

UEFA Cup: Werder enjoy stroll after Wiese saves
ESPN.com - There was also late drama in Athens where AEK, who dismissed Spanish coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer on Tuesday after slipping to third in the Greek Super League, salvaged a 1-1 draw with Getafe. Midfielder Ruben de la Red looked to have won it for the

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