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Barcelona Sign €150 Million Deal with Nike Nike have signed a five year kit sponsorship with Barcelona which will
earn the CONI Reduce Calciopoli Sentances In a disgraceful move CONI, the court of arbitration for the Italian Olympic Committee have further reduced all but one of the points penalties handed out to the clubs implicated in the Calciopoli scandal. Milan, who had a 15 point penalty reduced to 8 points and re-instated in European Competition had no further reductions despite being the club least implicated in the scandal Lazio, originally relegated with a 7 point penalty before being re-instated into Serie A with a 11 point penalty now have a 3 point deduction Fiorentina, originally relegated with a 12 point penalty before being re-instated into Serie A with a 19 point penalty now have a 15 point deduction Juventus, originally relegated with a 30 point penalty, which was reduced to 17 points on appeal, have had a further reduction to just 9 points Reggina are still awaiting the results of their appeal. Shearer Donates Testimonal Money To Charity In an act of generousity mirroring several other footballers (Roy Keane and Colin Cooper), Alan Shearer has donated the (€2.43 million) proceeds from his testiomonial match to 14 local charity. He said : "I was lucky enough to live my dream, to play football and get paid for it. There are not many people in the world who look forward to getting up in the morning, and being paid an unbelievable amount of money for doing so. I was one of them, so for me to have taken the money would not have been right. It was an easy decision to give it to the charities, the difficult part was deciding which charities to give it to. We literally had hundreds writing and asking, but we decided on the 14 and I apologise to all the people that unfortunately did not get anything but the 14 that did, I know they are very, very grateful." "I am just delighted. I have said a tremendous thank you to everyone
but the main thank you has to go to all the people who have paid their
money for the dinners Defender Banned for Racial Abuse Wisla Krakow's Serbian defender Nikola Mijailovic has been banned for
five games "UEFA launched the inquiry on the basis of an official complaint submitted by Blackburn, as well as on the basis of an additional report submitted by the match referee. The UEFA disciplinary body, in reaching its decision, repeated its view that racism not only constituted a serious breach of the fair play principle but also presented a serious threat to sport and its ethical values." FIFA Ban Kenya FIFA has banned Kenya from international competition until they
implement a 28 Lippi Back Next Year "I will return to coaching next year. Come February or March I will have a look at my options for a new adventure with a serious club, one that excites me. It's not important whether the club is in Italy or abroad." - Former Italy and Juventus coach Marcello Lippi Platini Wants Champions League Limit Former Juventus and France legend Michel Platini, who will stand for
presidency "Four clubs (from the top four countries in the Champions League) are
too many, In another proposal which will prove unpopular Platini ruled against any plans to introduce video evidence : "We have to help referees who can't see everything and I believe two
more assistants on either side of the pitch would do this. It would help
judging offside decisions as well as a range of off-the-ball incidents. I
am totally against refereeing by video. Where would it stop? If you start
with videos, you will finish with videos and there would be no more
referees." Ballon D'or Shortlist The 50 players nominated for the most prestigious individual honour in
football, Michael Ballack (Chelsea), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Tim Cahill
(Everton), FIFA Reveal Player of the Year List The 30 players who will compete for the 2006 FIFA World Player of the
Year award Adriano (Inter, Brazil), Michael Ballack (Chelsea, Germany), Gianluigi
Buffon Euro 2008 Mascots Named Triz and Flix have been chosen as the
names of the Euro 2008 mascots. The "It's like when parents announce the birth of a child. A child's name isn't always to everyone's liking but the fact 67,406 football fans in Austria and Switzerland cast a vote shows that the names proposed were very popular." The pair polled 36.3% of the vote,
with Flitz and Bitz in second place on 33.7%
Glenn Myernick, Bruce Arena's assistant at the last two World Cup
finals has His wife, Nancy, daughter Kelly and son Travis were with him when he died. German World Cup Documentary Box Office Smash A documentary following the German national team through the World Cup
finals All proceeds from the fill will go to the SOS Children's Villages
charity which Ricardo Oliveira's Sister Kidnapped 35 year old Maria de Lourdes da Silva Oliveira, sister of Milan and
Brazil
In a statement of huge irony Real Madrid's new president Ramon Calderon
bemoaned Chelsea's spending power following years of boasting by the
club's former president of the galactico's wealth : Simon Greenberg, Chelsea's director of communications, argued the money
spent " A very small amount of his current investment went on purchasing the
club. The Benfica Presidential Candidate Promises SGE One of the candidates in Benfica's upcoming presidential elections, Carlos Alberto Quaresma, has promised to bring former coach Sven-Goran Eriksson back to the club : "I am going to win and then Eriksson will be my coach. He would be
returning to Eriksson had two previous stints in charge of Benfica, winning leagues
titles in Paparesta Cleared Gianluca Paparesta, the World's best referee, has had his ridiculous 8
month ban Silva Speaks After Amputation "This would have worried me if it had happened at 20 or 22 years old, in my prime. If it happened before I went to Europe it would have made life much harder but thanks to God, and yes I can thank Him, it has come at the end of my career, when I wanted to stay in Uruguay anyway. Like I said before, I didn't even want to live anymore. When I realised I had lost a leg, I wanted to die. I've lost a match but I want to recover and fight on to qualify. I have to continue going forward." Klose Rules Out Bayern Move Werder Bremen striker Miroslav Klose has ruled following in the
footsteps of many other German internationals in joining Bayern Munich
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