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...Japan's sapped economy and bruised ego, there's a lot at stake. The Japanese have laid out $4.5 billion for new facilities, three times what France spent for the whole show. Sure, the Nikkei is lower than a striker who just shanked a penalty, but football has nearly ousted yakyu (baseball) as Japan's national pastime, and the country boasts more players in the premier European leagues than any other Asian nation. South Korea, too, is out to prove it belongs on football's greatest stage. A five-time participant in the finals, South Korea has never made...
...Group B, Spain could sleepwalk its way to the next round. With quality players like Raul Gonzalez Blanco, Luis Enrique Martinez Garcia and Gaizka Mendieta, the Spaniards should cream Paraguay, as well as Slovenia, the smallest country to qualify; and South Africa is hopelessly out of its depth with striker Sean Bartlett lost despite Benni McCarthy's recent run of form. Spain as ever oozes class. The only question seems to be: Will the Spaniards choke in the quarters this year or wait until the semis...
...situation is traumatic enough for those networks that put too much faith - and cash - in the ability of football striker Michael Owen or Formula One champion Michael Schumacher to draw viewers. But it's likely to be just as bad for the football clubs, car-racing teams and other sports organizations that have become overdependent on the broadcasting cash. Their costs are going up; their revenue ... well, that's the problem. And in the long run, as pay-TV networks consolidate - they will have no other choice - a two-tier rights hierarchy could develop, even in the same sport...
Heaven knows why they call it a consolation goal, because it's usually anything but. When Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine's star striker, scored in the dying moments of the second leg of his country's World Cup play-off against Germany on Nov. 14, he knew the goal would serve no purpose: the Germans were already leading by four. As the final whistle sounded in Dortmund's Westfalenstadion, the Ukrainians slumped to the turf. Shevchenko was shattered. "The door of the World Cup is closed to me," he said later. Football fans around the world mourned with Shevchenko, for they...
...early goal from sophomore striker Ladd Fritz was all the offense Harvard needed as the men’s soccer team blanked Columbia 1-0 on Saturday afternoon in New York...