France Turns Table, Beats Italy 3-1
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Two months after losing the World Cup final to Italy, France drubs the Italians, 3-1, getting two goals from Sidney Govou, No. 9, and one from Thierry Henry in a European Championship qualifier.
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England lifts the pressure off Coach Sven-Goran Eriksson with a 2-1 win at Poland in a World Cup qualifier Wednesday night, while Italy and France also get victories.
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France gained some payback Wednesday for its loss in the World Cup final with a 3-1 victory over Italy in European Championship qualifying, while Germany routed San Marino by a championship record 13-0.
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TORSHAVN, Faroe Islands Franceâs coach, Raymond Domenech, said his team had to show more commitment after their 2-0 victory over the Faroe Islands in a World Cup qualifier marred by the expulsion of captain Patrick Vieria for diving.
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The beautiful game turned vicious, even venomous Sunday. It was all still beautiful to Italy. And very ugly for France, which lost captain Zinedine Zidane with a red card after his nasty head butt in extra time, and then went down 5-3 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw.
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Francesco Totti scored from the penalty spot in injury time Monday to lead Italy over Australia 1-0 and into the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
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Tony Parker scores 23 points on Saturday and France defeats Germany, 78-66, moving closer to the quarterfinals of the European basketball championship.
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Anastasia Myskina kept Russia&#39;s Fed Cup hopes alive by beating Moscow-born Tatiana Golovin 6-4, 7-6, in the second singles of the competition final against holders France on Saturday, leveling the score at 1-1.
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France finally won its game of brinkmanship and a World Cup game for the first time since capturing the title eight years ago. Teetering on the edge of another embarrassing first-round elimination from the World Cup, the 1998 champion beat Togo 2-0 on Friday to advance to the final 16 for a game against Spain.
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In a fitting end to a season dominated by Russian women, the country won its first Fed Cup title Sunday by edging defending champion France 3-2 when Anastasia Myskina and Vera Zvonareva beat Marion Bartoli and Emilie Loit 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the deciding doubles match.
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Italy: 1-Gianluigi Buffon; 2-Massimo Oddo (13-Fabio Cannavaro 69), 6-Alessandro Nesta, 5-Marco Materazzi, 3-Giuseppe Pancaro; 7-Aimo Diana (15-Simone Perrotta 65), 4-Gennaro Gattuso, 8-Daniele De Rossi (14-Manuele Blasi 74), 11-Gianluca Zambrotta; 10
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France coach Raymond Domenech said the former world and European champions had to improve drastically after a 2-0 away win over the Faroe Islands in a World Cup Group Four qualifier on Wednesday.
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Sylvain Wiltord and Thierry Henry scored a goal each as France beat Cyprus 2-0 in Nicosia yesterday. France now takes the lead of Israel&#39;s qualifying group along with Ireland, which downed
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World Cup hosts France completed their warm-up campaign ahead of the start of next month&#39;s showpiece tournament with a 34-7 win against Wales at the Millennium Stadium here Sunday.
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Russia secured its third Fed Cup title Sunday after Svetlana Kuznetsova rallied to beat Francesca Schiavone 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5 in the first reverse singles and gave the hosts an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Italy.
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Anastasia Myskina capped a magnificent  year for Russian tennis by leading her country to their first  Fed Cup title with a dramatic win over holders France.
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Zinedine Zidane scored on a penalty kick six minutes into the World Cup final match against Italy to give France a 1-0 lead on Sunday.