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...DAMIEN DUFF, 23, IRELAND Coming off a good domestic season with Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League, Duff excelled in attack for the plucky Irish. He can both create and finish, and has also shown he can take the pressure of international football matches. VALUE: $12 million-$15 million, up from $7 million...
...BEST SAVE Showing why he's rated as the world's best shot-stopper, German Oliver Kahn flung himself to the right to palm away an attempt by Korea's Lee Chun Soo in their tense semifinal match. Honorable Mention: Spaniard Iker Casillas's intercepts of the efforts by Ireland's David Connolly and Kevin Kilbane in the penalty shoot...
...what about Spain? The toreros came to Korea to win the Cup and, as usual, went back home singing piercing, lamenting flamenco songs of despair, squandered chances and conspiracies. In short, after struggling past Ireland and failing to bump Korea in traditional fashion, they resorted to the national pastimes of making excuses. They may have somewhat of a point this time, but what about the other 16? The truth is that Spain plays with the flair of the promising matador that always fails to insert the sword in the neck of the bull in the first try, which...
...discussion and skepticism, of irreverence and sensuality, of technology and pop culture, I felt equally at home. Like many Catholics of my generation (I'm in my late 30s), I grew up not in a tightly knit urban Catholic enclave--most of my family emigrated to Britain from Ireland at the beginning of the last century--but in the booming suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s. My Irish grandmother was barely literate. Her grandson has an Ivy League Ph.D. But while my peers left the church or scorned its structures, I stayed. Even as I discovered that I was homosexual...
...state of their art might want to send away to Darjeeling for a certain (very thin) coaching manual. Because the most obvious lesson to be drawn from the first round of the tournament is that the simplest strategies are the most effective. The surprising success stories?Sweden, Ireland, Denmark?hewed closest to the St. Paul's school of football. They packed their defenses with up to eight large bodies and booted the ball up toward a couple of speedy forwards. It bored spectators to distraction, but delivered the results the teams wanted...