Fabregas calls on English to quit comfort zone - report
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Arsenal star Cesc Fabregas has suggested the lack of English players trying to improve themselves abroad may be just as harmful to the English game as the steady influx of foreigners in the Premier League.
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England number two Terry Venables on Saturday urged the Football Association (FA) not to be too quick to write off manager Steve McClaren.
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TORSHAVN, Faroe Islands Franceâs coach, Raymond Domenech, said his team had to show more commitment after their 2-0 victory over the Faroe Islands in a World Cup qualifier marred by the expulsion of captain Patrick Vieria for diving.
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MUNICH - Former German football great Franz Beckenbauer has warned national team coach Juergen Klinsmann against fielding too many young players at the expense of experience.
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Spain coach Luis Aragones drew criticism in the country&#39;s press Thursday for his alleged racist comments about French striker Thierry Henry.
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Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira, who almost quit the club to join Real Madrid in the summer, wants to lead out his team at the club's new 400-million pound stadium in 2006 to complete a decade in London.
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Spain coach Luis Aragones was criticized Wednesday by the country&#39;s leading sports daily for his outburst against the English on the eve of his team&#39;s soccer friendly with England.
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RAFA BENITEZ believes Steven Gerrard put too much pressure on himself with his midweek comments and has urged his skipper to &#39;learn from the experience&#39;.
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Cesc Fabregas has warned that Arsenal are out to prove their doubters wrong by winning the Premier League title as they embark on an ambitious year.
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Spaniards used to say they lived in one of Europe's most racially tolerant countries. Soccer has shattered that myth. In Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium &#151; the Yankee Stadium of soccer &#151; Spanish fans bellowed out monkey noises last week each time a black English player touched the ball in a match between England and Spain.
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Spanish officials are set to renege on a promise to the Football Association not to use tomorrow&#39;s friendly with England in the BernabÃ©u Stadium to promote Madrid&#39;s 2012 Olympic bid, a rival to London&#39;s.
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MADRID - The Spanish government said it deplored the racist chants which marred Spain&#39;s friendly win over England, blasting the fans&#39; behaviour as &quot;lamentable&quot; and &quot;intolerable.
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Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas, who recently signed a seven-year deal with Arsenal, has hinted he would like a return to Spain.
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JEAN-ALAIN Boumsong, who appeared an oasis of calm within Saturday&#39;s maelstrom at Ibrox, has urged the Old Firm combatants to disregard any vendettas and restore sanity before the teams collide again.
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Despite denying any problems in the past, England striker Michael Owen has finally admitted he may have to begin worrying if his first team exile at Real Madrid continues.
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Former France goalkeeper Fabien Barthez says he is to retire with immediate effect.
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Rafael Benitez accepts he must plan to stop a Brazilian double act if Liverpool are to emerge unscathed from their European examination in Greece.