Franz Beckenbauer News
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Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt was named sportsman of the year at the 2013 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. Gold-medal winning heptathlete Jessica Ennis of Britain took the women’s award.
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The following is a roundup of soccer stories from U.K. newspapers, with clickable Internet links.
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Soccer’s governing body FIFA is closing down an advisory group that was set up to suggest ways of making the sport more attractive.
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The head of soccer’s global governing body is asking former German World Cup winning captain Franz Beckenbauer to find an alternative to penalty shootouts to decide tied matches.
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World Cup-winning captain and coach Franz Beckenbauer, the man heading a task-force responsible for suggesting ways to improve soccer, didn’t show up for its first meeting in Zurich today.
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Manchester City, the English Premier League team owned by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, is close to being awarded a Major League Soccer expansion franchise in Queens, New York, for a record $100 million, three people with direct knowledge of the talks said.
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Soccer rulemakers will consider a proposal that would allow a fourth substitution in extra time in games, among measures put forward by a group trying to improve the sport.
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German soccer players are perceived -- especially by the English -- as being totally steadfast when faced with taking a penalty kick. It wasn’t always so.
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Major League Soccer is taking its plan to build a 25,000-seat home for a new team in New York City to the politicians in Queens who will decide the project’s fate.
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Holger Osieck , an assistant to Franz Beckenbauer on Germany’s 1990 soccer World Cup-winning team, was hired as Australia coach to oversee a “period of rejuvenation and transition,” Football Federation Australia said.
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