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The Bundesliga club has stated that they will not sell the Bosnia and Herzegovina international for less than £34 million, but City officials value the 24-year-old as worth £22-24 million.
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Il Corriere dello Sport reports Raiola will listen to both clubs as they make their pitch for the Italian striker. And whichever offers the best package for his client will have to shell out €40 million to sign him from the treble champions.
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Good to see Joseph “Just Call Me Sepp” Blatter paying attention to all the important details. If FIFA didn’t take care of things such as this, where would the World Cup be?

So we will have Shakira singing her little heart out, or lip-synching, more likely. We will have a golden ball that will fly around like the beach ball it is. We will have all the vuvuzelas hell could swallow.And we’ll even have a referee. One from England, no less. Isn’t that nice?

I do not know Howard Webb. But I hope and trust that he gets every call correct when the Netherlands plays Spain for all the marbles in Soccer City.
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No offence to the Olympic movement, but a month-long sporting event spread across our entire nation is taking it to the next level. But would Canada ever have a chance of playing host to such an event? And if we were afforded the opportunity, what kind of host would we be?

My gut reaction is yes and with flying colours. Sure, substantial investment would be needed. Greater soccer infrastructure is a must. But with FIFA holding Canada’s hand along the way, it would all come off as planned.
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The Holland playmaker will confront Spain in Sunday’s World Cup final level with David Villa as the tournament’s leading goalscorer with each having found the net five times. Sneijder’s performances both under José Mourinho at Inter last season – where he claimed the Coppa Italia, Serie A title and the European Cup – and in South Africa had prompted United to approach the Italian club regarding his potential availability.
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that the result was predicted by an octopus.

Paul the octopus, a psychic cephalopod at Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany, has become a World Cup phenomenon after correctly predicting the
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Paul the octopus, a psychic cephalopod at Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany, has become a World Cup phenomenon after correctly predicting the victors in all six of Germany’s matches. Tuesday’s ceremony was carried live on German television.
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Spain, with all their inventiveness and imagination, have deservedly set up footballs dream date with the technically-brilliant Dutch in Soccer City on Sunday.

Football deserves this most fitting of final battles, the aesthetes dream where finding of the angle to the goal will be a more satisfying and breathtaking experience than scoring itself.

On Wednesday, in Durbans Moses Mabhida Stadium, over 60, 000 were held enthralled by an exhibition of high-end football as Germany were forced off the rails with a super show of possession football by Spain in the second semifinal.
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