Many football players arrive on the pitch with weird, wonderful and wacky superstitions
Bayern Munich has agreed to sell Germany’s striker Mario Gomez to Italian club Fiorentina, says the Bundesliga club.
Mario Gómez’s hat-trick has probably put him in the starting line-up for Bayern Munich’s Champions League duel next week against Barcelona.
Bayern Munich hammered FC Basel to progress into the quarterfinals of the Champions League and keep their hopes of reaching the final alive.
Italian football’s Champions League fortunes suffered a further blow on Wednesday as holders Inter Milan could not stem the tide of home defeats.
They are the men who will reap the plaudits and milk the applause — the goal poachers who can grab glory for their nation in an instant. And they will deserve the adulation if they can rise above the increasingly defensive fare of the modern international game and the fear of losing, which hung heavy over the finals of both Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup.
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/ 26 November 2007
Inter Milan, Barcelona, AS Roma and Rangers are on the brink of qualifying in Tuesday’s Champions League group matches though Arsenal and Manchester United have already reached the knockout stages. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger intends to give some of his young Gunners another chance to impress in the Group H trip to Sevilla.
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/ 20 September 2007
Manchester United, Arsenal, FC Barcelona and AS Roma opened their Champions League campaigns with victories on Wednesday. United won at Sporting Lisbon 1-0 with a goal by Cristiano Ronaldo, while Arsenal beat visiting UEFA Cup champion Sevilla 3-0.