England finally found their fighting spirit and along with it a place in the second round with a battling 1-0 win over feisty Slovenia on Wednesday.
Midfielder Michael Bradley’s late goal sealed the US’s fightback as they drew 2-2 with Slovenia at the Soccer World Cup on Friday.
Slovenia coach Matjaz Kek has made no surprise choices in his final 23-man Soccer World Cup squad.
A nation of just two million people, Slovenia have already punched above their weight to secure a place at the Soccer World Cup.
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/ 16 November 2009
The names of the final four European teams to qualify for next year’s World Cup will be known after the final leg of the play-offs on Wednesday.
Rising above the escalating violence in and around Tibet, the message from around the world was loud and clear: ”Let the Games begin.” European nations and Olympic committees said on Monday they opposed a boycott of the Beijing Games over China’s handling of the unrest in Tibet.
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/ 26 December 2007
In 1999, Texas governor George Bush publicly confused Slovenia with Slovakia at a time when both belonged to a group of ex-communist East European states striving to join the European Union. In January, Slovenia, tucked below Austria on the eastern shoulder of Italy, takes over the EU’s six-month presidency.
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/ 28 September 2006
Nato defence chiefs were set on Thursday to agree to assume command of peacekeeping across all of insurgency hit Afghanistan next month despite some allies’ concerns over tactics and troop shortfalls. The move into eastern Afghanistan could take effect quickly because it would largely involve placing under Nato command about 12 000 mostly United States forces already in the region.