China Fires Soccer Coach Haan After World Cup Exit
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China&#39;s Dutch coach Arie Haan was fired after a missed penalty in his team&#39;s 7-0 win against Hong Kong sealed the country&#39;s elimination from qualifying for soccer&#39;s 2006 World Cup in Germany.
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Berti Vogts resigned as Scotland&#39;s soccer manager on Monday with his team standing virtually no chance of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
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BEIJING : China coach Arie Haan&#39;s contract will be terminated, soccer officials said, but insisted he should not shoulder full responsibility for the team&#39;s disastrous elimination from World Cup qualifying.
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Bucharest, Romania (Sports Network) - Anghel Iordanescu resigned as coach of Romania Friday following Wednesday&#39;s disappointing 1-1 World Cup qualifying draw with Armenia.
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China&#39;s former President Jiang Zemin resigned as head of the country&#39;s military, leaving President Hu Jintao as undisputed leader of the world&#39;s most populous nation.
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U.S. captain Claudio Reyna retired from international competition Friday, a day after his final World Cup game ended with a loss and an injury.
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World Cup-winning rugby coach Clive Woodward has stepped down from his role as technical director at English Championship football club Southampton.
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Glasgow, Scotland (Sports Network) - Scotland national team coach Berti Vogts stepped down Monday following a nightmare start to the World Cup qualifying campaign.
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Marcelo Bielsa has resigned as coach of Argentina less than one month after steering the national football team to their first Olympic gold medal.
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Chinese Finance Minister Jin Renqing resigns for personal reasons, the government announces.
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China&#39;s Finance Minister Jin Renqing has quit and been demoted to a think tank, a government spokesman said Thursday, amid reports he was sacked for his role in a sex scandal.
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England go out of the Women's World Cup in China after a 3-0 quarter-final defeat to the USA.
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China&#39;s former Communist Party chief and president, Jiang Zemin, plans to leave government, resigning from his last official position.
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Marcelo Bielsa resigns as coach of Argentina less than a month after steering the country to Olympic gold.
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Berti Vogts quit as Scotland&#39;s national soccer coach after a run of results left the team unlikely to qualify for the 2006 World Cup in his home country of Germany.
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China's Communist Party expels nine officials and businessmen over a big Shanghai corruption scandal.
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BEIJING: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao left here for Kyrgyzstan and Russia a day after embattled Russian oil giant Yukos said it was slashing supplies to China in a move analysts said was designed to cause maximum embarrassment in Moscow.