Congratulations to the Davis Cup winner (and the dedicated competition).
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Best World Cup Winner (1930, 1950) How did they qualify?
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Best World Cup Winner (1978, 1986) How did they qualify?
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Their captain, David Villa, did this: David Villa, World Cup winner.
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A four-time Stanley Cup winner as a player, Roy detested losing.
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I consider myself a double World Cup winner despite all these problems.
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God.' with the World Cup winner upset at the use of "hustler".
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Best World Cup Winner (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014) How did they qualify?
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However, the best-selling plush remains Deep Impact, the 2006 Japan Cup winner.
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World number one Dustin Johnson was third followed by FedEx Cup winner Justin Rose.
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"Now it's official," the 1986 World Cup winner said on his Facebook page on Thursday.
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The primary assist earned Kunitz, a four-time Stanley Cup winner, his 600th career point.
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Four-times overall World Cup winner Vonn shook her head in frustration after her run.
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The 82-time World Cup winner has suffered knee injuries, torn ACLs and broken bones.
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Vegas gave up undisclosed future considerations to acquire Kruger, a two-time Stanley Cup winner.
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The U.S. Open Cup winner automatically qualifies for the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League.
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Former USWNT player Brandi Chastain, an Olympic and World Cup winner, tweeted her support on Saturday.
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The 2015 FIFA World Cup winner also reflected on her former teammate and best friend, Solo.
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Another former All Blacks scrumhalf, the 2011 World Cup winner Piri Weepu, has enjoyed himself less.
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Intriguingly, the most searched team in host nation Russia is five-time World Cup winner Brazil.
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"The message was the same as it was before," said Williams, a three-time Cup winner.
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Nawalka said his players were not happy just to have drawn with the 2014 World Cup winner.
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The association has 140,000 members, including World Cup winner Marcel Hirscher and Olympic gold medalist Anna Veith.
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United States' twice women's World Cup winner Carli Lloyd will keep the ball rolling on March 31.
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Paolo Maldini, Italy's greatest defender, and Andrea Pirlo, a World Cup winner in 21, exchanged small talk.
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France's two-time Davis Cup winner Fabrice Santoro said the lack of atmosphere had clearly affected Monfils.
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Oduya, 36, was a two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015.
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Chicago signed four-time Stanley Cup winner Chris Kunitz plus goaltender Cam Ward and defenseman Brandon Manning.
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It did not name the player but local media said it was German World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger.
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As a player for West Germany, he became German Champion, European Cup Winner, European Champion, and World Champion.
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"I think we deserve the result," said coach Didier Deschamps, a World Cup winner with France in 1998.
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Center Jordan Staal, a Cup winner with Pittsburgh, has brought his game up multiple levels in these playoffs.
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He picked up a Ligue 1 title with the former, and was a UEFA Cup winner at the Nerazzurri.
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F Vladislav Namestnikov is the nephew of Slava Kozlov, a two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Red Wings.
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America's Cup winner Spithill was heard on television yelling "that's way too close" as Wild Oats completed a tack.
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"We are aware that we need to improve our game," 2014 World Cup winner Toni Kroos said this week.
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One of his new teammates was none other than future World Cup winner and US national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
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His tale started Saturday night, after he eliminated Ryota "Kazunoko" Inoue, last year's Capcom Cup winner, to enter Top 8.
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She also managed to hypnotise Brazil icon and former World Cup winner Ronaldinho in the Paris Saint-Germain player tunnel.
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Fellow World Cup winner Mesut Ozil did not even make the line-up after 26 consecutive starts at major tournaments.
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In the video you can see the 2-time Stanley Cup winner squaring off with a manager of the gym.
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Scott Gomez, another two-time Cup winner with the Devils, rejoined the team last season but left after one year.
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David Poile made a blockbuster move or two every year, and he built the Predators into a Presidents' Cup winner.
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Birgit Prinz, a former World Cup winner and world player of the year, now serves Germany as its sports psychologist.
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Defending Charles Schwab Cup winner and 2019 Player of the Year Scott McCarron is tied for 28th at 1 under.
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His performances drew comparisons to the FIFA World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane — the man Aouar says he idolized growing up.
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As well as the appointment of Emery, Gazidis oversaw high profile signings of players including German World Cup winner Mesut Ozil.
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"This was huge," said Korean coach Jim Paek, the first Korean-born player in the NHL and a Stanley Cup winner.
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Jorge Valdano, an Argentine World Cup winner, has written of his country's "arrogance" in portraying itself "as a predestined footballing power".
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The 75-year-old triple World Cup winner had hip surgery in December and needs a walking stick to get around.
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" Romário, a World Cup winner in 1994 and now a member of Congress, has called the C.B.F. "a gang of thieves.
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"Our players did their job," said Serbia coach Aleksandar Djordjevic, a former European champion and World Cup winner as a player.
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The Australian coach Phillipe Presti, a French Olympian and Cup winner, said the human filtering of information made data most useful.
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An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the former World Cup winner and majority owner of Real Valladolid.
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Johansson has been rumored to be on the trading block, and Lovejoy has played for a Stanley Cup winner with Pittsburgh.
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Benjamin Pavard's signing was announced in January, though the French World Cup winner will not join the squad until the summer.
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"I'm telling you I've never seen any Stanley Cup winner come even close to the precision these five sharks had," Appel says.
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United, an 11-time F.A. Cup winner, never appeared threatened by third-tier Shrewsbury, the lowest-ranked team remaining in the tournament.
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Olympic gold medalist and World Cup winner Hope Solo has been making her voice heard in the world of soccer for years.
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He's a two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Penguins, and he also played alongside Howe in the legend's final NHL season.
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The 75-year-old triple World Cup winner had the preparatory operation at the Special Surgery hospital in New York on Dec.
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"We want the players to focus on every little detail," said the assistant coach Scott Young, a two-time Stanley Cup winner.
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American Mikaela Shiffrin, last year's overall World Cup winner, led after the slalom leg by 0.39 seconds from Wendy Holdener of Switzerland.
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And now Didier Deschamps is on the verge of becoming the third man to coach and play for a World Cup winner.
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Juve said Matuidi, a World Cup winner with France in 2018, was in self-isolation at home and not showing any symptoms.
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"Jean Ratelle had the same elegance and style as Jean Beliveau," said Cournoyer, a 10-time Stanley Cup winner with the Canadiens.
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SPORTS An article on Tuesday about the former World Cup winner who bought the soccer club Real Valladolid misspelled the player's name.
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NOTES: Marc-Andre Fleury started in goal for Pittsburgh after Stanley Cup winner Matt Murray started and won the previous two games.
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The Kings also have Jonathan Quick, a two-time Stanley Cup winner, who returned Saturday from a long-term lower-body injury.
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Qewy, a seven-year-old gelding rated 25-1, will be ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, a Melbourne Cup winner with Brew in 2000.
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"It's upsetting that my last Italy game coincides with our elimination for the World Cup," said Buffon, a World Cup winner in 2006.
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With thirty seconds left on the clock, Brown eventually succumbed to a rear-naked choke from the three-time BJJ World Cup winner.
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In the handshake lineup was Scotty Bowman, a nine-time Stanley Cup winner as a coach and Chicago's senior adviser of hockey operations.
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Many of those athletes competed during qualification on Saturday, including 2016 bouldering world champion Tomoa Narasaki and multiple World Cup winner Akiyo Noguchi.
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Thankfully, in a statement released by the Blues late Tuesday night ... they say the 2019 Stanley Cup winner was "alert" and "conscious" after treatment.
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She was the season World Cup winner in slalom in 2006 and had won slalom silver in the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek.
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Fleury, a Stanley Cup winner in 03, appeared a bit rusty in making his first start since he sustained a concussion on March 31.
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Tasked with containing a midfield featuring the great Zidane, World Cup winner Didier Deschamps, and the powerful Edgar Davids, Keane would not cede territory.
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Warm greeting on the bench for Januzaj from Thierry Henry, the French World Cup winner who is now a member of Martinez's coaching staff.
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But he showed no ill effects as Ajax, a four-time European Cup winner, made the most of its first European semifinal since 1997.
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It was the second and last combined race of the season and Fill finished as World Cup winner of the category with 140 points.
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Vegas has Fleury, a three-time Cup winner with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and wing James Neal, who played in last year's finals with Nashville.
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Defending Charles Schwab Cup winner and 2019 Player of the Year Scott McCarron scattered seven birdies to shoot the day's low round of 65.
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After his resignation, Uli Hoeness, a former World Cup winner and now president of Bayern Munich, said that he "had been playing rubbish for years".
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He has the distinction of being the only player in the history of the game to win three World Cup winner medals – another Guinness record.
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Zidane, a World Cup winner with France and a Champions League winner with Real Madrid, had most recently been in charge of Madrid's second team.
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Highly-rated young American coach Jason Kreis paid the price for the disappointing season and has been replaced by French World Cup winner Patrick Vieira.
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Out West, the two-time Cup winner Jonathan Quick of the Kings is lagging behind the Sharks' Martin Jones, who backed him up last season.
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Nino Niederreiter provided a midseason boost while Justin Williams, the team captain and a three-time Cup winner, had his most productive season since 2012.
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Russia was the lowest-ranked team in the eight-nation competition, which includes continental champions, the most recent World Cup winner and the host nation.
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"That's been a huge goal of this team — to continue to grow the sport," midfielder and 2015 World Cup winner Julie Ertz told reporters in Reims.
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"The team has grown tremendously in many aspects this year", the 29-year old son of former European cup winner and Ajax captain Danny Blind said.
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Soccer has never been close to being the most popular sport in the United States, but former World Cup winner Patrick Vieira thinks that will change.
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Sullivan said Crosby, a two-time Stanley Cup winner who also has a pair of Olympic gold medals and a slew of individual awards, remained positive.
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And Germany still has Mario Götze, the Tom Thumb-like figure who popped up with the World Cup winner in extra time against Argentina in 2014.
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On the sideline, his manager, the French World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane, pumped his fist to mark his second title in two seasons as Madrid's coach.
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"The top three in the Premier League plus the F.A. Cup winner should go to the Champions League, increasing the value of the trophy," he wrote.
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The biggest climbers anywhere on the list are Japanese soccer side Vissel Kobe, now home to former Barcelona midfielder and 2010 FIFA World Cup winner Andres Iniesta.
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The Supercoppa put reigning Serie A champion Juventus up against seven-time European Cup winner AC Milan on Wednesday in a game that was already causing controversy.
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Vonn, four-times overall World Cup winner and downhill gold medalist at the 2010 Olympics, was racing in the discipline for the first time since early 2016.
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Brouwer, who played for the Blackhawks' Cup winner in 226 and was among the veteran additions to a team trying to break through, swiped in a backhander.
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Among the contenders at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games are several Germans, including the five-time reigning World Cup winner, Eric Frenzel, and the Japanese Akito Watabe.
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In May, she had an exhilarating trip in the water, sailing around the Solent with four-time Olympic champion – and reigning America's Cup winner – Ainslie and his crew.
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A 10-time All-Star and six-time Stanley Cup winner, Robinson was the perfect blend of offensive flash and physical dominance for the era he played in.
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Necalli's costume was chosen by the 2015 Capcom Cup winner Kazunoko, and this year's winner will be able to choose a character to receive a new costume too.
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Pele, 78, was admitted to the hospital in Paris last Wednesday with a fever after attending an event in the city with French World Cup-winner Kylian Mbappe.
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" Anderson, who is currently dating French soccer player and World Cup winner Adil Rami, also offered her thoughts on how technology and computer addictions are affecting "good sex.
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After getting manhandled in a first-round loss to eventual Stanley Cup winner Pittsburgh, the Rangers revamped their roster, including the trade of leading goal scorer Derick Brassard.
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Williams, twice a World Cup winner in the 15-man game, partially ruptured his Achilles charging into a tackle and was replaced in the squad by Sione Molia.
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The Bruins went from Cup winner in 2011 to Cup finalist in 2013 to out of the playoffs altogether in 2015, and the time had come to refresh.
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United, whose squad features French World Cup winner Paul Pogba and Spanish goalkeeper David de Gea, have shrugged off their worst start to a season in 28 years.
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Former Davis Cup winner and Australian Open semi-finalist McNamara coached Wang for several years before he succumbed to prostate cancer at the age of 64 last July.
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One of those was the Cup winner in 1981, as Merrick's goal held up in a 5-1 win over the North Stars in the Game 5 clincher.
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The 1954 game was exciting enough: Tony Leswick scored the Cup-winner for the Wings from 40 feet, beating Canadiens goalie Gerry McNeil after four and a half minutes.
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Luckily for his canary-yellow-shirted squad, Colombia will face manageable rivals in Japan, Senegal, and Poland — with Group H the only one to lack a World Cup winner.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Michelle Payne, the first woman jockey to ride a Melbourne Cup winner, has been suspended from racing for a month after testing positive for a banned appetite suppressant.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian cemetery that buried twice World Cup winner Garrincha in 1983 has lost the player's bones, family and officials in his home town said on Wednesday.
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - Former World Cup winner Diego Maradona arrived in the Zagreb Arena amid much fanfare to support Argentina in the Davis Cup final against hosts Croatia starting on Friday.
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Today, we wrap up the season preview with a look at the very best teams the league has to offer, plus a full set of predictions and a Cup winner.
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A raucous home crowd was matched by an equally fervent Argentine contingent, which included the country's former soccer team captain and World Cup winner Diego Maradona in the VIP box.
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It came amid other reports that Mourinho had dressed down the World Cup winner in front of his team mates, telling him he would never be captain at United again.
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It was probably helpful that the reticent Wright-Phillips, after several years playing in England, began his M.L.S. career in a supporting role alongside the World Cup winner Thierry Henry.
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The BBC reported Ineos had made a 100 million euros ($111.44 million) offer for Nice, currently managed by former France captain and World Cup winner Patrick Vieira, earlier this year.
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Megan Rapinoe, co-captain of the US Women's National Team and a two-time World Cup winner, is one of 85033 women who made the list under its "Sport" category.
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The pressure is instantly on Weight, 45, a Stanley Cup winner with Carolina in 2006 who started his career with the Rangers and finished it with the Islanders in 2011.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Davis Cup winner Radek Stepanek announced his retirement from tennis on Tuesday after failing to recover his fitness following back surgery earlier this year, Czech media reported.
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Those attending were thought to include former European Cup winner Aston Villa, three-time English champions Leeds United and Derby County, currently managed by former Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard.
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Maradona, the 1986 World Cup winner whom Argentines constantly compare him to, went from waving a No. 10 Messi shirt to wiping tears out of his eyes, slumped in his seat.
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Part of Dallas' 1999 Stanley Cup winner, Lehtinen spent all 14 of his NHL seasons with the Stars and is the fifth player to have his number retired in franchise history.
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That section featured a guest performer: Brazilian soccer star and past World Cup winner Ronaldinho, who for a few bars of the song hammered out the rhythm on an African drum.
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Stay here for live updates and analysis from Pyeongchang: • Shiffrin is the reigning Olympic champion, the three-time defending world champion and a four-time World Cup winner in the event.
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Dybala is one of three players at Juventus who have tested positive for the virus alongside defender Daniele Rugani and midfielder Blaise Matuidi, a World Cup winner with France in 2018.
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It was the fifth start and sixth appearance in Pittsburgh's past seven games for Jarry, who lately is getting playing time ahead of Matt Murray, a two-time Stanley Cup winner.
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Former Brazil soccer star and two-time World Cup winner Ronaldo bought a majority share in Spanish La Liga side Real Valladolid for a fee of 30 million euros ($34.6 million).
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Svindal, a double Olympic gold medalist and two times overall World Cup winner whose eight world championship medals include five golds between 2007-13, will also be pushing back the pain barrier.
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" (Arsenal didn't do well in the Champions League this week.) Richard Hill, the England team manager and a World Cup winner in 2003, said of the prince, "He knows the players well.
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"There is no questioning the enormous quality of Brazil's players, Tite and backroom staff," the normally cautious former World Cup winner Tostao wrote before the final two qualifiers against Bolivia and Chile.
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The 2012 Ryder Cup winner, who has since fallen down to 424th in the world rankings, found the water on his last hole but it was overall a great day for Colsaerts.
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At the time, Gulati acknowledged that Klinsmann, a World Cup winner with Germany as a player, had been the only man truly considered for the job, and he initially showed great promise.
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And after the 2014 collapse of Spain, the 2010 World Cup winner — the defending champions won only one match and failed to advance to the knockout round — del Bosque offered his resignation.
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"I will enjoy the Olympics a lot because it will be on home ground, so more and more people are coming to cheer for me," added the reigning combined World Cup winner.
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Forward Patrick Sharp, a three-time Stanley Cup winner with the Blackhawks who spent the previous two seasons in Dallas, was a healthy scratch Thursday for the first time in 23.13 years.
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A three-time Stanley Cup winner with the Penguins, Fleury will be the centerpiece of a team that will not have much time to find continuity before its first game on Oct.
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The Bundesliga runner-up and German Cup winner in 4323, Wolfsburg is fighting relegation this year, with Coach Dieter Hecking and General Manager Klaus Allofs both losing their jobs earlier this season.
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The Bundesliga runner-up and German Cup winner in 2015, Wolfsburg is fighting relegation this year, with Coach Dieter Hecking and General Manager Klaus Allofs both losing their jobs earlier this season.
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"I couldn't say whether we have the advantage one way or another because confidence is pretty critical in these things," said Courier, a Davis Cup winner as a player in 1992 and 1995.
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One of the best puck moving and shut down defencemen of his generation, Savard was a four-time All-Star, seven-time Stanley Cup winner, and won a Conn Smythe Trophy in 1969.
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Sherman will probably never be in the Hall of Fame, but thanks to Chrome, he will forever be known as the trainer of a Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Dubai World Cup winner.
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Defensive end Brandon Graham did his interview wearing a dog mask, while tight end Zach Ertz was interviewed by wife Julie, a midfielder and World Cup winner with the U.S. women's soccer team.
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The waiter and Schweinsteiger, the German soccer star and World Cup winner, exchanged pleasantries before Schweinsteiger was left to his lunch, which had been delayed by unexpected traffic that had made him late.
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Costa, a Davis Cup winner as a player in 2000 and captain in 2009 and 2011, said the new format, where matches are best-of-three sets rather than five, was kinder to players.
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Former World Cup winner Ronaldinho and Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba both exhibit skills to pay the bills — but both footballers have been given a run for their money by teenage sensation Lisa Zimouche.
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Trainer Shug McGaughey said he is happy with how the Travers and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner, who will be rode by Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez, moved on the track this week.
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The 2006 World Cup winner, close to tears at times, said that until two weeks ago he had been set to end his playing career, but changed his mind after receiving "very interesting" proposals.
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The 26-year-old is a two-times World Cup winner in the competition climbing discipline of bouldering — a sport requiring dexterity bordering on contortionism, strength, a penchant for puzzle-solving and iron fingers.
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There hasn't been a repeat Stanley Cup winner in the cap era, and that's mostly due to parity, but it's also partly due to fatigue, and the Penguins must be feeling some by now.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Godolphin's two-decade wait for a Melbourne Cup winner may be set to end on Tuesday, when the powerful stable mounts a formidable assault to gallop off with Australia's richest horse racing prize.
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The teams from Australia, China, France, Britain, Japan and the United States have been assembled by former America's Cup winner Russell Coutts for SailGP, an annual competition kick-started by Coutts and sailing fanatic Ellison.
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Two-times World Cup winner Williams partially tore his Achilles tendon during the rugby sevens tournament at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and was ruled out of action for anywhere between six and nine months.
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The bench also has plenty of experience in the form of veteran hooker Schalk Brits, Ulster loose forward Marcell Coetzee, potentially playing his first test in four years, and 213 World Cup winner Frans Steyn.
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The Swiss, overall World Cup winner in 2016 and bronze medalist in the downhill at the Sochi Olympics, tore an anterior cruciate ligament in her knee at the world championships in St Moritz last February.
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"It's great to be back on my old stomping ground and I'm just grateful to be in such a great side," said Williams, twice a World Cup winner with the 15-man All Blacks side.
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The All Blacks' World Cup winner, who has also shone as one of the world's finest rugby league players and New Zealand's champion heavyweight boxer, is also targetting a place in the inaugural Olympics sevens.
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Long shots have often raced away with the prize, including Prince of Penzance which defied 100-1 odds in the 2015 running and made jockey Michelle Payne the first woman to ride a Cup winner.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - World Cup winner Carli Lloyd said on Tuesday she had been practising for a hoped-for future in the NFL and was not fazed about the idea of playing alongside the men.
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Against the Blue Jackets, he was given his seventh start in the team's past 10 games as he has, at least for now, taken playing time away from two-time Stanley Cup winner Matt Murray.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - World Cup winner Carli Lloyd said on Tuesday she had been practising for a hoped-for future in the NFL and was not fazed about the idea of playing alongside the men.
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Pele's son Edinho told Globo in an interview published on Monday that the three-times World Cup winner was depressed and reluctant to leave his house because he cannot get around properly due to hip problems.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A Waikato Chiefs team shorn of eight All Blacks but inspired by World Cup winner Stephen Donald ran in six tries to beat Wales 40-7 in a tour match in Hamilton on Tuesday.
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Gut, the overall World Cup winner in 2016 and bronze medalist in the downhill at the Sochi Olympics, tore an anterior cruciate ligament in her knee at the same venue at the world championships in February.
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Brazilians are soccer-mad and some even follow Orlando City, whose games are broadcast in Brazil and who are led by Kaká, a World Cup winner for Brazil and a former world player of the year.
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The 1998 World Cup winner, who played in four successive finals, serves as one of manager Roberto Martinez's assistants in what is his first coaching role since the end of an illustrious playing career in 2014.
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Weir, who trained 2015 Melbourne Cup winner Prince of Penzance, was also charged with conspiracy to defraud stewards of the state racing authority, possessing an unregistered Category A firearm and using the controlled weapon without excuse.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stanley Cup winner Brian Gionta will captain a U.S. men's Olympic ice hockey team made up of players from European leagues or the North American development ranks at next month's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
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David Villa, the Spanish World Cup winner who in 2014 became New York City F.C.'s first player, said on Wednesday that he would leave the club when his contract expired at the end of the year.
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The Islanders, whose inconsistent start this season led to the firing of Capuano, have been energized under Weight, a veteran of more than 1,200 N.H.L. games and a Stanley Cup winner with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006.
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Next month's Olympics, however, are likely to be the swansong for the 39-year-old Stanley Cup winner, who retired from the NHL last year after 15 seasons with the New Jersey Devils, Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres.
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"Whether I'm on his line or not on his line, I wanted to be on his team," said Lucic, a Cup winner in Boston who signed a seven-year deal this summer to play left wing beside McDavid.
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Earlier on Monday, Toronto Wolfpack, who signed New Zealand's Rugby World Cup winner Sonny Bill Williams last year, stood down their entire playing staff in the United Kingdom after four players showed "mild possible symptoms" of COVID-19.
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Crosby, a three-time Stanley Cup winner who scored at least 443 points this season for the sixth time in his 14-year career, has more regular-season points against the Islanders (113) than against any other opponent.
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Lothar Matthäus, a World Cup winner for Germany, phoned it in during his brief tenure with the MetroStars, spending much of his time clubbing in Manhattan or vacationing in St.-Tropez when he was purportedly rehabbing an injury.
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Re-energized behind Weight, a veteran of more than 21,22 games and a Stanley Cup winner with Carolina in 21, the Islanders surged from last in the Eastern Conference and were briefly in playoff position in late March.
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Henri scored two goals, including the Cup winner, in a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks in Game 7 of the 1971 finals after he had been benched by Coach Al MacNeil late in Game 103.
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A 2006 World Cup winner with Italy, for whom he remains first-choice keeper, Juve's grand old man Buffon craves a Champions League medal to add to his glittering array of silverware after twice suffering heartache in the final.
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Central defender Niklas Suele, who four years ago had just won promotion from the third division, is also likely to start in the place of the suspended Jerome Boateng, another World Cup winner who was sent off against Sweden.
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Still, signing Llorente – a World Cup winner who has turned out for Juventus and Sevilla – adds a little starpower, and is enough to leave Swans fans of a certain vintage wondering if they're in a beautiful football-themed coma.
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Williams, twice a World Cup winner in the 15-man game, suffered the injury to his left ankle while carrying the ball into a tackle two minutes into the second half and immediately indicated to the bench that he needed help.
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"It's really been a mixture of emotions and it's so surreal for me because I just won a gold medal four months ago and I just was feeling on top of the world," the 13-time World Cup winner said.
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The drivers include World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) world champion Jose Maria Lopez of Argentina, the 2015 FIA GT World Cup winner Maro Engel of Germany and the winner of the 2015 FIA F3 European Championship, Felix Rosenqvist of Sweden.
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Unfortunately for Harlaut, a four-time X Games big air gold medallaist and World Cup winner, the discipline is only available for snowboarders in the current Olympic program but may be included for skiers from the Beijing Games in 2022.
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Richards, a 30-year-old center and a two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Los Angeles Kings, would talk only about getting back on the ice after a year of legal troubles and a trip to the minor leagues.
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Vieira, a Senegalese-born World Cup winner, had been introduced as the club's second head coach and dutifully answered question after question about players whom he is still meeting and a league, M.L.S., that he is still getting to know.
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Pavel Datsyuk, the Russian captain and two-times Stanley Cup winner with the Detroit Red Wings, came in on the right wing and fed the puck across the goal mouth to Gusev, who fired a wrist shot behind Pavel Francouz.
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United, whose squad includes French World Cup winner Paul Pogba, Spain goalkeeper David de Gea and Chile forward Alexis Sanchez, said revenue is expected to be between 615 million pounds and 2177.1 million pounds in the year to next June.
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Sonny Bill Williams, twice a World Cup winner with New Zealand in the longer format, is one of the few high profile test players who have managed to make the transition to the lung-busting exertions of the 14-minute game.
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While many surprises could await the 32 teams at the Cup, the favorites to take the title this year are Brazil, Spain and the last World Cup winner, Germany — who, if they win, will become the first repeat winner since 1962.
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The Dutchman joins fellow European Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi on the payroll of the CFA, with the Italian World Cup winner currently preparing the senior team for the finals of the Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates in January.
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Williams's bow was eagerly awaited as the All Blacks' World Cup winner, who has also shone as one of the world's finest rugby league players and New Zealand's champion heavyweight boxer, now targets a place in the inaugural Olympics sevens.
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The four-times overall World Cup winner, who pipped Sofia Goggia by two hundredths of a second in Saturday's sprint downhill at Garmisch, again edged the Italian in Sunday's conventional race on the Kandahar mountain, this time by 0.11 seconds.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - New Zealand center and twice World Cup winner Sonny Bill Williams has agreed to join the Toronto Wolfpack rugby league team ahead of their debut in England's top-tier Super League next year, the Canadian side said on Thursday.
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Zeman only started training with the players three days before the match, appointed by club president Daniele Sebastiani in the wake of the sacking of 22012 World Cup winner – and architect of Pescara's promotion from Serie B last season – Massimo Oddo.
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" Julie Foudy, a former captain of the national team and a two-time World Cup winner, said of Ms. Rapinoe and her teammates: "In a way that I have never seen before, this team seems to unapologetically own their voice.
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Serendipity has played a part in this year's bid, with Australian jockey and three-times Cup winner Damien Oliver losing his ride on the race favorite after being suspended for 20 races for "improper riding" during the lead-up Cox Plate.
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On realising that the photo was taken down because of copyright infringement and not merely for being reported by a third party, two-times World Cup winner Williams reposted here the image with due credit and an apology to the photographer.
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A few days after the on-field protest, Bom Senso organized a rally of current and former players, such as 22013 World Cup winner Raí, fans, and journalists at the CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, under the hashtag #OcupaCBF ("Occupy the CBF").
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Similarly, its expensive and well- publicized ventures into the global talent market, most recently with the signing of Daniel Carter — the All Blacks legend, World Cup winner and International Player of the Year — have been complemented by investment in developing local talent.
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Despite giving the three-time Stanley Cup winner — who's also picked up two Olympic gold medals throughout his career — a hard time during the game, Lipeika went on to share that Crosby's reaction to his heckles made him like the player more.
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"I do remember it was a good preparation way back when so I thought it would be nice to do it again," the 17-times grand slam champion, a Hopman Cup winner with Martina Hingis in 2001, said in a video release.
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The short track team should add to their record 21 golds while the patchwork ice hockey squad woven together by former Stanley Cup winner Jim Paek has the potential to deliver the kind of 'David v Goliath' storyline the country can respond to.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Brazil winger Neymar is a world class footballer who does not need to exaggerate when his is fouled because it does not earn him any sympathy with the fans, former Germany captain and World Cup winner Lothar Matthaeus said on Wednesday.
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Two-time FIFA World Player of the Year, Olympic gold medalist, and World Cup winner Carli Lloyd has made her name on the soccer pitch, but the United States Women's National Team (USWNT) captain is seriously considering taking her talents to the gridiron.
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Considered by many as the game's finest player and the only man to have won three World Cups, Pele was hospitalized in France last Wednesday after suffering a fever following an event in the city with French World Cup-winner Kylian Mbappe.
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The captain of Italy's 22015 World Cup winning team, Fabio Cannavaro, ended his career in Dubai with Al Ahli, while David Trezeguet, a member of France's Cup winner in 20083, played briefly for Baniyas in Abu Dhabi near the end of his career.
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The captain of Italy's 22015 World Cup-winning team, Fabio Cannavaro, ended his career in Dubai with Al Ahli, while David Trezeguet, a member of France's Cup winner in 20083, played briefly for Baniyas in Abu Dhabi near the end of his career.
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Polish 10th seed Agnieszka Radwanska, the Rogers Cup winner in 2014, kicked off her North American hardcourt campaign with a regulation 6-3 63-3 win over American CoCo Vandeweghe, who lost the final in Stanford on Sunday to compatriot Madison Keys.
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WELLINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Twice Rugby World Cup winner Sonny Bill Williams' quest for an Olympic medal will be put to the test in earnest this weekend after he was named in New Zealand's side for the Wellington leg of the World Sevens Series.
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"For the first time in more than 165 years, the teams have got together for the benefit of not only themselves but for the America's Cup," said Russell Coutts, a five-time America's Cup winner who now leads the organisation that runs the event.
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The twice World Cup-winner took part in a training camp in Cambridge, New Zealand this week ahead of the third leg of the Sevens World Series in Wellington at the end of January, where he is expected to be selected for the first time.
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ISTRA, Russia (Reuters) - France will go into their World Cup semi-final against neighbors Belgium with a "hunger to win" and a desire to show their 1998 World Cup winner Thierry Henry that he picked the wrong side, forward Olivier Giroud said on Sunday.
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UEFA is once again reviewing P.S.G's finances after its recent acquisitions of the Brazilian star Neymar and the French World Cup winner Kylian Mbappé; Neymar's purchase more than doubled the world transfer record, and Mbappé's move from Monaco made him the world's second-costliest player.
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To be fair, several financial institutions like Goldman, ING, Nomura managed to accurately predict at least one final team — France, but CNBC has not yet come across any economist predicting Croatia making it to the final, underscoring the difficulty of predicting a World Cup winner.
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Roy Lassiter (with Tampa Bay in 1996) and Robbie Keane (with LA in 2012) scored six in a single postseason, while Carlos Ruiz bagged a remarkable eight goals in six playoff games for the LA Galaxy in 2002, including the golden-goal MLS Cup winner.
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But it took a moment of brilliance by Nonu, a two-time World Cup winner with New Zealand, to keep the French club in contention last Sunday when it was on the verge of its first-ever home defeat in Europe, by the English club Wasps.
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The Penguins can bring back about as close to an identical team of any Cup winner in recent years but they could use the $5.75 million in cap space to fortify their defense and someone will want Fleury for the next three seasons at that price.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil may be five-time winners of the World Cup and joint favorites to make it six in Russia this year but the South Americans do not yet have the right blend for success, three-time World Cup winner Pele said on Wednesday.
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"If you were ever going to make a mold for a hockey player with five strengths — offense, defense, durability, toughness and versatility — you wouldn't look past Gordie Howe," Scotty Bowman, the N.H.L.'s leader in coaching victories and a nine-time Stanley Cup winner, once said.
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Steve Wicklum is a former college hockey player and chief executive of My Pro Hero, a company started last year in Waterloo, Ontario, that matches players of all levels with the likes of Oates, the Hall of Famer Bryan Trottier and the Stanley Cup winner Theo Fleury.
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During one of the Avalanche's playoff runs in the early 2000s, his team mate Joe Sakic — like Forsberg a two-time Stanley Cup winner and now a member of the NHL Hall of Fame — let him try a new one-piece composite stick he had just acquired.
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Guangzhou Evergrande has won two of the past three Asian Champions League titles, and there is a rising number of famous coaches in the league, such as Luiz Felipe Scolari, the 2002 World Cup winner with Brazil, and Sven-Goran Eriksson, the former head coach of England's national team.
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Ibrahimovic, who, at 37, is nearing the age at which soccer legends are memorialized for the trophies they won and the goals they scored, said he was happy for Beckham, a former teammate of his at Paris St.-Germain and a two-time M.L.S. Cup winner with the Galaxy.
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Around the 28th minute, and for the next several minutes, fans belted out a popular club song, which borrows the melody of "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister: Sechs mal Deutscher meister, Six-time German champion, Drei mal pokalsieger, Three-time cup winner, Immer erste liga, H.S.V.!
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Murray, hired in 2014 by Stanley Cup winner Jim Paek, now the head of South Korean hockey, recalls her first world championship tournament behind the bench when her players dropped their sticks, helmets, even gloves to the ice as the national anthem started - a major taboo in the hockey world.
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Scoreless after one period, Crawford kept the match scoreless with a denial of Alex Killorn's breakaway attempt 236:22 into the second, and the two-time Stanley Cup winner made another point-blank save as Carter Verhaeghe tried to score from the slot to finish a two-on-one rush with under seven minutes remaining.
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Despite having just 100 or so full-time professional footballers to choose from, Iceland succeeded where four-time World Cup winner Italy and three-time runner-up the Netherlands failed because — in everything from lavishing training on kids to making fans feel like they&aposre an integral part of the team&aposs success — Iceland is doing everything right.
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SOCCER-WOMEN-NWSL-INTERVIEW/ Rapinoe calls for more investment in U.S. women's game Two-time World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe has been at the forefront of the U.S. national women's team's fight for gender pay equity but the fiery forward has told Reuters she also hopes for more investment in the domestic league and better pay for club players.
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Whether Germany wins twice on Russian soil in two years, though — and it is worth noting both that no winner of the Confederations Cup has ever won the subsequent World Cup, and that a World Cup winner has never repeated since Brazil in 1962 — should not detract from the broader pattern its latest gilded summer has brought to the surface.
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