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Mexican football clubs ban major sports tabloid (AP)
MEXICO CITY (AP)—Nearly all of Mexico’s first-division football clubs and the Mexico Football Federation have agreed to ban access to one of the country’s most important sports newspapers.
‘I prefer to support Chelsea and Inter’ – Mourinho hints he is not interested in returning to former clubs (Goal.com)
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has admitted his love for previous clubs Chelsea and Inter, but intimated his affection for the duo should not be overestimated.
Manchester City’s Yaya Toure hits back at Wayne Rooney: ‘Hopefully he won’t be laughing at the end of the season’ (Goal.com)
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has hit back at Wayne Rooney after the Manchester United striker taunted him and his brother Kolo on Twitter. Rooney used the social networking site to poke fun at the two Ivory Coast internationals after they lost the Africa Cup of Nations final to Zambia last week. “If Rooney thought Ivory Coast losing was funny then that’s up to him.
Libertadores Cup results (Reuters)
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US Women to play 2 games in Japan (AP)
CHICAGO (AP)—The U.S.
3 French games brought forward due to cold snap (AP)
PARIS (AP)—The French league says three first division matches scheduled for Saturday evening have been brought forward to an earlier kickoff because of freezing weather conditions. The LFP said Friday that Dijon vs. Valenciennes, Nancy vs
Terry removed as England captain over racism case (AP)
LONDON (AP)—John Terry was dumped as England captain on Friday while awaiting trial for racial abuse, but the Chelsea defender will remain eligible to play for the national team at the European Championship. With the trial delayed this week until after Euro 2012, the English Football Association said executives went over coach Fabio Capello’s head and stripped Terry of the captaincy “until the allegations against him are resolved.” Terry is the first top footballer in England to be charged with such a racially aggravated public order offense after prosecutors found there was enough evidence to prove he hurled abuse at Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League match in October
Prosecutor says Redknapp dodged tax on "bonus" (Reuters)
LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp cheated the taxman over a bonus he once received for a transfer, a prosecution lawyer said as he concluded his case against the man tipped to be the next England coach. Redknapp, 64, has denied tax evasion over two payments totalling $295,000 made to a Monaco bank account, named Rosie 47 after his bulldog, when he was in charge of Portsmouth who are now in the second tier of English football
Olympics, World Cup preparation bring evictions (PA SportsTicker)
By JULIANA BARBASSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)—Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos’ devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn’t watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium – this nation’s temple to the sport. But Santos says he’ll never set foot in the place again.
Brazilian unions threaten to stop work on World Cup stadiums (Goal.com)
Brazil’s trade unions have threatened to go on strike next month, casting further doubt over the country’s hopes of having all of the stadiums ready in time for the start of the 2014 World Cup. The Union Force, the Central Workers, the International Trade Union Confederation (CSI) and the National Federation of Industrial Heavy Construction have declared that they are willing to tell their members to down their tools in March if a dispute over minimum wage benefits is not resolved to their satisfaction inside the next fortnight. “There is the possibility of a strike if our demands are not met,” Joao Carlos Goncalves, the secretary general of Union Force (Forca Sindical) told Globoesporte