England, Italy, Scotland win in soccer
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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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England ended the latest round of World Cup qualfiers sitting pretty and well on course for Germany in 2006 - sadly not the same can be said for Wales and Scotland, two countries in turmoil.
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Sport: The All Blacks made a rampant start to their World Cup campaign, beating Italy by 76-14 in a match which was over after less than 20 minutes.
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England got strikes from sparkling debut starter Jermain Defoe and Michael Owen to defeat Poland in a Uefa World Cup qualifier in Chorzow.
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Shaun-Wright Phillips scores the winner as England beat Switzerland in Fabio Capello's first game as boss.
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Italy made its bid to qualify for next yearâs European Championship a lot more difficult yesterday, and England made it much more likely.Italy, the World Cup champion, was held to a 0-0 tie against France yesterday, dropping them into third place in Group B with four matches to go.England defeated Israel, 3-0, in Group E. It plays host to Russia on Wednesday in a match that will probably leave one of the two teams facing elimination.
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LONDON: After a mixed bag of results in the weekend&#39;s soccer qualifiers, Europe&#39;s major countries asserted their authority this morning with France, England and Italy all winning away.
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David Beckham produced an inspirational captain's performance as England swept Ukraine aside with a 3-0 friendly victory that will send Sven-Goran Eriksson's squad into their World Cup qualifying campaign in high spirits.
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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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Fabio Capello's first match in charge of England ended in a 2-1 victory over Switzerland that offered the Italian as much encouragement about the potential of his new charges as evidence of the deficiencies that resulted in them failing to reach Euro 2008.
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Argentina, England, the Czech Republic and Tunisia got ready for the World Cup with victories in warmup games Tuesday.
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Fifa World Cup European Qualifying continued tonight with games across the continent and wins recorded for Holland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Portugal, Greece and the Ukraine, among others.
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David Beckham lurches from one crisis to another. Michael Owen projects a squeaky clean image. The country which invented soccer should have no problem deciding who&#39;s the best choice to captain England&#39;s national team.
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England start the defence of their World Cup crown with a 28-10 victory USA in Lens.
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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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Italy overwhelmed Scotland 37-17 to record their first away win in the Six Nations in front of a stunned Murrayfield crowd here Saturday.
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Scotland start their Euro 2008 qualifying campaign confidently with a high-scoring win.