European Soccer Roundup: England, Italy, Scotland Win
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England, Italy, Scotland, the Netherlands and Spain won important qualifiers Wednesday night for next year's European Championship.
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The inaugural night of Uefa Cup group football produced handsome victories for Stuttgart - who beat Beveren 5-1 â-enit St Petersburg â - thrashed AEK Athens 5-1 â Ra-rs â 5-0 -ners in Poland â and Fe-oord, who triumphed 3-0 over Hearts
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Nothing changed at the top of Serie A as all top teams won their games to keep the distance between one another unaltered. Juventus came back from behind against Lazio to win thanks to another goal by Ibrahimovic
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England has defeated Wales, 2-0, while Scotland lost to Norway in first round qualifying matches for the 2006 World Cup football tournament in Germany.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Shaun Wright-Phillips scored in his international debut as England beat Ukraine 3-0 in a warm-up for soccer World Cup qualifying, while Italy lost 2-0 to Iceland.
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Fiorentina, Atalanta, Messina and Livorno all won their first-round matches of the Italian Cup on Sunday, stepping closer to qualification for the next round.
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Del Piero finally lives up to the expectations and puts Italy top of the group. Six points were what Marcello Lippi wanted but it wasnât at easy as it looks for the azzurri because only with a goal by Toni
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Steffen Iversen&#39;s penalty in the 55th minute lifted Norway to a 1-0 victory Saturday over Scotland in their Group 5 World Cup qualifying group.
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England finally got a result against Sweden it can live with. No, not a win &amp;#151; that has been too much to ask for. A 2-2 tie Tuesday, however, was enough for the English to win Group B at the World Cup.
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England squandered a two-goal lead in being held to a 2-2 draw by Austria in its opening match of qualifying for the 2006 soccer World Cup, while Italy beat Norway 2-1.
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English Premiership side Middlesbrough had a workmanlike 1-0 victory at Athens club Aigelo in the first ever UEFA Cup group stages though Scottish club Hearts lost in a mixed night for Britain in early matches.
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England still can&#039;t get past Portugal or Luiz Felipe Scolari. After the English lost David Beckham to an injury and Wayne Rooney to a red card, Portugal won a shootout 3-1 Saturday night following 120 minutes of scoreless soccer.
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Italy beat 10-man Czech Republic 2-0 Thursday to win Group E at the World Cup and avoid a likely matchup with Brazil in the second round.
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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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Mauro Bergamasco's late try gives Italy an historic, but controversial Six Nations victory over Wales in Rome.
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Maybe the World Cup is the easy part for Italy. With scandal tearing apart the national sport back home, the Italians kept plowing through soccer&#039;s premier event Tuesday night with a last-minute win just when it seemed a penalty shootout was inevitable.
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Real Madrid, Lyon and Arsenal were the big winners in the Champions League on Tuesday.