Top dollar for Pele&#39;s shirt
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London - The No 10 shirt worn by Pele during the 1958 World Cup final was sold for Â£70 050 (about R808 000) to a private buyer, auction house Christie&#39;s said on Tuesday.
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Having seen their club invest the best part of Â£33 million on two defenders in the summer, Chelsea fans must have been curious to see what came for the price.
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Sport: Russian steel magnate Alisher Usmanov purchases 14.58% stake in the club for Â£75m.
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The 24-year-old edged out Arsenal&#39;s Thierry Henry and AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko to the prize. &quot;Just to be here brings me great joy.
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Manchester United, the world&#39;s richest soccer club and 15 times English champions, are being approached again: American billionaire Malcolm Glazer, owner of the NFL franchise Tampa Bay Buccaneers and No.2 United shareholder with 28.1% stake, is to make a
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AC Milan signed Brazil striker Ronaldo from Real Madrid on Tuesday for 7.5 million euros ($9.7 million).
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A successful bidder for Manchester United could have to pay more than 300p a share, City sources suggested yesterday. The stock rose 13.
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The England defender completed his Â£13.4m (â¬19.8m) move to the Bernabeu from Newcastle on Friday and was introduced to the media this lunchtime.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Russian billionaire pays over Â£25m for treasures Â· Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment
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Shares in Manchester United Plc rose 3.1 percent after a newspaper report yesterday said the soccer club&#39;s two biggest investors may sell their stake to billionaire Malcolm Glazer for 310 pence ($5.
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Sir Alex Ferguson is not easily won over but Gabriel Heinze may just have bucked the trend at Manchester United. The Â£6.9million Argentina defender had a debut to remember after only linking up with his new team-mates four days before the game.
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The Gunners are delighted with their Â£100 million deal with the Dubai-based airline this week. But The Sun says Arsenal could have banked a total of Â£123m by separating the naming rights and shirt deal.
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Perhaps Amado Guevara, who became the first MetroStar to earn the Golden Ball as MLS Most Valuable Player, can turn some of that gold into real money.
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Tottenham will have cash to spend on players when the transfer window opens in January, gaffer Martin Jol has said. Freddie Kanoute&#39;s 57th-minute strike at Manchester City yesterday sent Spurs two places up
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The Brazil international is said to be the subject of a Â£2 million offer from the Gunners ahead of the January market. Marcos almost joined the Gunners two seasons ago and has been out for six months following surgery on a hand injury, but is now fit.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Brazilian star Ronaldinho was named the world&#39;s top soccer player by FIFA, the sport&#39;s governing body on Monday.
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Chelsea, soccer&#39;s biggest-spending team, will play defending champion Porto in the group stage of European soccer&#39;s Champions League, pitting Blues coach Jose Mourinho against the team he took to last year&#39;s final.