Football: Kanoute wins top award
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Mali and Sevilla striker Fredi Kanoute is named 2007 African Footballer of the Year by the Confederation of African Football.
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Brazil striker Ronaldinho won FIFA&#39;s World Player of the Year award on Monday, ahead of France&#39;s Thierry Henry and Ukrainian Andrei Shevchenko.
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Rahul Dravid wins the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy as Player of the Year at ICC Awards. India&#39;s Rahul Dravid claimed the most prestigious individual honour in world cricket after being named Player of the Year at the ICC Awards in London.
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Hicham El Guerrouj shocks world record holder Kenenisa Bekele to win the 5,000m.
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ST. LOUIS - Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson was selected the best player in the NFL by the Sporting News, ahead of reigning co-MVP Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts.
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Tottenham manager Martin Jol today forgave Frederic Kanoute for the âunforgivableâ aberration which cost Spurs a place in the Carling Cup semi-finals.
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New Tottenham manager Martin Jol has refused to blame his expensive shot-shy strike force for the club&#39;s recent plight. Despite the presence of Frederic Kanoute, Robbie Keane and Jermain Defoe in a stellar
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ACCRA, Dec 8 (IPS) - This weekend an award will be presented to the best  farmer in Ghana in recognition of the pivotal contribution that  agriculture makes to the economy of this West African country.
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Justice has been served. Following his dynamic season for Liverpool, breathtaking contribution at Euro 2004, and goals-laden start to his career in Spain, Michael Owen has rightly been named on the shortlist for the FIFA World Player of the Year award.
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AC Milan striker Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko won the Golden Ball awardas as the best European footballer in a poll of journalists from 52 countries.
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PARIS : French striker Thierry Henry, Brazilian Ronaldinho and Andriy Shevchenko of Ukraine were nominated for FIFA&#39;s world player of the year award for 2004.
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Patrick Kluivert was hailed as a world class striker by Newcastle boss Graeme Souness after the Dutchman continued to defy the critics by scoring twice in his side&#39;s 5-1 UEFA Cup win over Bnei Sakhnin on Thursday.
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Florent Sinama Pongolle converted two penalties to send Liverpool into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. The striker had ensured a shootout with his 117th-minute penalty and then decided
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Samuel Eto'o became the all-time record goalscorer at the African Nations Cup Wednesday when he fired Cameroon into the quarter-finals, where Egypt will also feature despite Zambia holding the defending champions to a 1-1 draw.
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Henrik Larsson, the former Celtic striker, has become the first player nominated for FIFA&#39;s World Player of the Year award to have done so on the basis of performances in the Bank of Scotland Premierleague.
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The poll conducted by European football journalists from 52 countries organised by France Football magazine, voted for the 28-year-old Ukrainian for his outstanding scoring record for Milan since he joined the Italian side in 1999.
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Samuel Eto'o becomes the top scorer in the history of the Africa Cup of Nations as Cameroon reach the last eight of the 2008 competition.