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VOL.29 :: NO.26 :: Jul. 01, 2006
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Dynamite TEUTONSMiroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski have done enough to be remembered forever as the `front office' of Juergen Klinsmann's `New Germany' irrespective of whether their team can repeat the home World Cup win achieved by Gerd Mueller and Co. in 1974, writes N. U. Abilash.
Plumbing farcical depthsThe match will be most remembered for four players being sent off, eight others booked and tempers boiling over both on and off the pitch, writes Nicholas Rigillo. 2ND ROUND: ARGENTINA V MEXICO Rodriguez's wonder strike Mexico played with a game plan of tight marking and stifling the creative passing game centred on Riquelme in the midfield. Argentina, as a result, struggled for much of the game before Rodriguez's spectacular volley sent them through, writes Peter Auf der Heyde. ROUND-UP Of Klose's precision and Ronaldo's feat Miroslav Klose's deadly strikes for Germany and Brazilian striker Ronaldo equalling the 14-goal record of Germany's Gerd Mueller were among the high points of the first round play. At the summit with Mueller Ronaldo is not worrying too much about breaking the German legend's record and is keeping his focus firmly on helping Brazil retain the World Cup, writes Michael Church. Counting on Totti Italy's most glamourous attacker, Francesco Totti, is a creator as well as a regular goalscorer. He is perhaps most dangerous playing behind the front two strikers, writes Andy Hampson. Wanted: a sparring partner for Wayne Wayne Rooney keeps badgering his good friend, the WBA welterweight world champion boxer Ricky Hatton, to come and spar with him in his Manchester gym. But, for the moment, he has to make do with goalkeeper David James.
Reputation at stake Risking Rooney as early as the second game against Trinidad was a desperate gesture, not least when Eriksson had initially promised Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson, that Rooney, recovering from his recent metatarsal injury, would be deployed, if at all, only in the latter stages.
A Battle of Attrition Rafael Nadal's unexpected rise over the past year-and-a-half has revived men's tennis. The 20-year-old must raise his level on surfaces other than dirt, but already in many circles he is regarded as the man who will eventually overtake Roger Federer as the world's number one tennis player, writes Vijay Parthasarathy.
Armenia & Ukraine are the bestThe chess Olympiad, the biggest congregation of talent in the game with well over 1000 players from around 150 nations, provides the platform for the super powers to test their strengths once every two years, writes Rakesh Rao.
The Ganga episode A voluble critic at the press conference made no bones of the fact that Runako Morton would have been a better choice than Daren Ganga for the third Test. But then Ganga silenced everyone with a hundred. Finally, everything was forgotten over a handshake, writes S. Ram Mahesh.
Change the formatFudging the age in junior cricket begins with the U-15 inter-state tournament. If the BCCI decides to have inter-school tournaments instead of the U-15 tournament, schools could be penalised for playing overaged boys.
"Football will look after you better" David Seaman is one of the greatest goalkeepers England produce but he now admits he almost plays cricket for Yorkshire. His headmaster wants him to turn to cricket but his sports master, a former footballer, makes him take up soccer, writes TE D CORBETT.
Sreesanth's heel The sore heel suffered by Sreesanth after the Antigua Test is a common complaint with pacemen.
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