Ailing Dutch soccer opts for play-off system
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AMSTERDAM - The Dutch football association KNVB announced on Friday that starting from the 2005-06 season, a play-off system will be introduced in the Premier Division to determine which teams qualifies for the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.
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The proposal by the Premier League to stage matches across the world leads to fears of player burn-out.
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Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Sports Network) - A top of the table clash between Schalke of the German Bundesliga and Dutch power Feyenoord highlights Matchday 4 of the UEFA Cup group stage.
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Manchester - Ruud van Nistelrooy&#39;s reward for the four-goal display that got Manchester United&#39;s Champions League campaign back on track was a suggestion from his manager that the Dutchman now deserved to be bracketed alongside Europe&#39;s all-time greats.
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Organisers were left banking on the Dutch weather to spare Saturday's final of the triangular cricket tournament after deciding against altering the fixture schedule in a bid to beat the rain that has marred this warm-up event for next month's ICC Champions Trophy in England.
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Feyenoord won the battle of the former winners to reach the last 32 of the UEFA Cup on Wednesday after a 2-1 victory over Schalke 04.
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UEFA is contemplating dragging its European competitions down to the level of the average local five-a-side league by paving the way for the return of plastic pitches.
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Van Basten Unhappy With Dutch Display 10/10/2004 10:54:00 PM Holland coach Marco van Basten was unimpressed by his sidea s inability to preserve the lead in a 2-2 draw with FYR Macedonia on Saturday.
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Giovanni van Bronckhorst tells BBC Sport he wants to avoid a Premiership side in the Champions League draw.
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GOALS in either half from Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy lifted the Dutch in this World Cup qualifier today. Marco van Basten&#39;s blundering side got off to a slow start and were put to the test
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PSV Eindhoven won 2-0 at Vitesse Arnhem in the Dutch first division yesterday but the game was marred by a 15-minute suspension after the referee was abused by Arnhem supporters.
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Former champions Ajax, Feyenoord, Parma and Sevilla advanced to the group stage of the UEFA Cup on Thursday when the 80-club field was cut in half after a two-leg first round.
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LONDON: AC Milan, Barcelona and PSV Eindhoven all qualified for the knockout stage of soccer&#39;s Champions League today with one match remaining in their groups.
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The United States Soccer Federation has struck a profitable vein since it began sending its national teams to the Boston area in 1991. The US men's team has an 11-1-3 record in Norfolk County and even the defeat -- 2-0 to the Netherlands -- prepared the Americans for their greatest series of conquests several days later in the 2002 World ...
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Ajax threw themselves a qualification lifeline at the Amsterdam ArenA with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv in Champions League Group C. First-half goals from Wesley Sonck, Nigel De Jong and skipper
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Feyenoord beat Schalke 04 2-1 at the De Kuip stadium on Wednesday evening to progress with their German opponents to the knockout stage of the UEFA Cup from Group A. Schalke, already qualified for the business
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The country isn't ready for another football league.