Iraq Reaches Olympic Soccer Quarterfinals
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Iraq became the first team to reach the  Olympic quarter-finals after a comfortable 2-0 victory over  Costa Rica on Sunday.
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The European summer is barely over, the Olympic Games have come and gone, and still soccer&#39;s insatiable thirst for do-or-die intensity revs up toward the qualification for the 2006 World Cup.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece - Abby Wambach will never score an easier goal. From one foot away, she tapped the ball into the net and put the United States into the Olympic semifinals...
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Iraq&#39;s Munir Qusai evades a tackle from Australia&#39;s Anthony Danze in Iraq&#39;s 1-0 victory. Photos: AP.s. From the ashes of war-torn Iraq an unlikely Phoenix is rising.
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Hicham El Guerrouj finally won an Olympic gold on Tuesday to underline his status as the greatest 1,500 meters runner in history, but the Iraqi soccer team&#39;s fairytale run was halted one match from a strike at gold.
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L'Australia &egrave; stata battuta 3-1 dall'Iraq a Bangkok nella Coppa d'Asia e rischia una clamoros...
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THESSALONIKI, Greece -- Abby Wambach will never score an easier goal. From 1 foot away, she tapped the ball into the net and put the United States into the Olympic semifinals.
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Iraq beat Australia 1-0 to reach the semi-finals of the men's football.
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An Iraqi soccer star can't sign with a professional British club because Iraq's Asian Cup-winning national team barely missed being ranked in the world's top 70 Â a situation blamed partly on violence in the country.
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Hushing a boisterous crowd with its all-around domination, the United States defeated Greece 102-72 Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Olympic women's basketball tournament. The Americans, seeking their third straight gold medal, will play Russia in the semifinals Friday.
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The Socceroos were tough on Italy. The referee was tougher on Australia. Another questionable call in this World Cup showed Italy the way to the quarterfinal Monday, giving the Italians a penalty kick that Francesco Totti converted for the 1-0 win as time expired.
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The recently crowned European Champions are out of the running for a medal in men&#39;s soccer. In the group rounds, Greece lost to Mexico 2:3 and watched as its favorite sons had to give up a chance for a gold to teams like Mali, South Korea, Iraq and ...
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Iraq's fairytale Olympic run continued  on Sunday when they beat Costa Rica 2-0 to reach the  quarter-finals of the Athens Games.
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Spain coach Luis Aragones told his fringe players to make his life difficult, and some of them lived up to the challenge. A Spanish squad full of substitutes beat Saudi Arabia 1-0 Friday to clinch first place in Group H. The backups tried to win a spot in the starting lineup for the round of 16 match in Hanover on Tuesday.
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ATHENS - Iraqi dreams of winning only their second Olympic medal were shattered on Friday when Italy beat them in a men&#39;s soccer bronze match overshadowed by the killing of an Italian hostage in Iraq.
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In Athens Greece, the South Korean Olympic soccer squad has secured a ticket to the quarterfinals for the first time in 56 years.
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Nigeria and Germany won their quarterfinals at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup yesterday in South Korea, completing a semifinal lineup of four former finalists.Nigeria defeated Argentina, 2-0, to end South American participation in the tournament, while Germany dominated England, 4-1. Nigeria and Germany will meet in one semifinal, and the other will pit Ghana and Spain.