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Should UEFA consider regional issues in draws?
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The Partizan Belgrade affair this week, which saw them first ejected from the UEFA Cup, then maybe-sort of let back in, brings up an interesting question. Should UEFA take regional and/or ethnic tensions into account when deciding early-round tournament draws? I know it sounds a bit strange, and I do not for a [...]
Category: Partizan allowed to play second leg
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The saga of Partizan Belgrade continues. A week after ejecting Partizan from the UEFA Cup due to fan violence, UEFA has taken a look at their rebuttal and decided to allow the second leg to be played, while they continue to review the situation. Partizan won the first leg, away at NK Zrinjski [...]
Eleven Intertoto winners move on to UEFA Cup
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The match results are in, and these are the eleven clubs from the Intertoto Cup moving on to UEFA Cup qualifying:
União Leiria (Portugal)
Sampdoria (Italy)
Atlético Madrid (Spain)
Oţelul Galaţi (Romania)
Tobol Kostanay (Kazakhstan)
Hamburger SV (Germany)
Lens (France)
Rapid Vienna (Austria)
Blackburn Rovers (England)
Hammarby (Sweden)
Aalborg BK (Denmark)
Hammarby are lone first-round Intertoto survivors
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Last season, two first-round Intertoto teams made it all the way through that tournament and into the UEFA Cup: Ethnikos of Cyprus and Maribor of Slovenia. This year, neither of these made it past the second round, and there is only one hero of the minnows this season, Hammarby of Sweden. Although the [...]
Today’s video lesson: Don’t clear into the box
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Video from Atletico Madrid 1-0 Gloria Bistrita yesterday. It was a nice attack and cross, and all credit to Diego Forlan for the finish, but to be fair, the ball should have been well handled. After all, two defenders got feet on it. This was a rare mistake from a Gloria team [...]
End of the road for Gloria. Madrid barely survives.
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Well, as Meat Loaf would have said if he was slightly less optimistic, three out of five ain’t bad. I called all the easy ones in today’s Intertoto matches – I just mixed up my Romanian sides. I blame the weeks of constant copying and pasting of the letter “ţ”. Anyway, I [...]
Can the Romanians hold on to Intertoto glory?
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Today, the first five of the eleven UEFA Cup spots will be decided in the Intertoto Cup. Two of the highlight matches feature Romanian clubs who scored big in the first leg, and look to hold on as the tie goes on the road. Gloria Bistriţa is up 2-1 on Atlético Madrid after [...]
Partizan out of UC … what’s next?
By: Ian Rose | 4 Comments
Another week, another European ejection for fan violence. All we need now is one from the Champions League and we’ll have the UEFA Trifecta of Shame, a feat not accomplished in modern football history. Sigh … let’s get down to the details.
I predicted … let me look … “a former Yugo derby that [...]
Video: Atletico Madrid falls to Gloria Bistriţa
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All the goals from the shock of the weekend – Atletico Madrid’s 2-1 loss to Romanian side Gloria Bistrita in the third round of the Intertoto Cup. Gloria has been well-named thus far in the tournament, only making the tournament at all because of the spot made available by Scotland’s withdrawal (Damn you, Elton!). [...]
Intertoto, Round 3 … for all the marbles
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This is it, the one that counts. The third round of the Intertoto Cup is underway, and eleven teams will move on from here to the second qualifying round of the (sort of) big show, the UEFA Cup. This week saw the entrance of some of the bigger names into the Intertoto, names [...]
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