Ghanaians in Europe May 3-6/2002

AUSTRIA
Charles Amoah's Sturm Graz claimed a spot in next season's Champions' League at the expense of city rivals Grazer AK in the penultimate game of the Austrian Bundesliga season on Saturday. Sturm's 4-1 home win over SW Bregenz coupled with GAK's 1-0 defeat at Salzburg was enough to seal the runners-up spot.

BELGIUM

CZECH
FC Slovan Liberec 3
FC Stavo Artikel Brno 3

Slovan Liberec enter the home stretch in the race for the Czech title with the slimmest of advantages after they drew 3-3 at home to Brno while Viktoria Zizkov beat Jablonec. Baffour Gyan came on as a third striker in the 63rd min for Slovan Liberec. Baffour's activity invigorated the home side's attack and in the 69th minute he won a free kick out on the left, which resulted in the third goal. Baffour had two more good chances , but the visitors held on to their point to keep the league season exciting to the last round. and also received a yellow card.

DENMARK

FRANCE
Sochaux 3
Monaco 0

Monaco capped a season to forget by losing 3-0 at Sochaux. Alex Nyako, who had a good season, on loan from Everton, played 90 minutes. Monaco are believed to be on the verge of making a bid for Nyarko although Everton have still not received any contact from the French club.

Sedan 0
Bastia 2

Bastia won at Sedan 2-0 thanks two Tony Vairelles strikes. Essien, played 90 minutes.

GERMANY ( End of Season)
Otto Addo's Borussia Dortmund came from behind to beat Werder Bremen 2-1 and pip Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich to the Bundesliga title. Brazilian midfielder Ewerthon scored a late winner just 60 seconds after coming on for Jorg Heinrich to ensure the win. Addo played the full 90 minutes

Sammy Kuffour's Bayern Munich finish the season empty-handed for the first time since 1995 despite beating Hansa Rostock 3-2.

Borussia M?nchengladbach 2
1860 M?nchen 4

Borussia M?nchengladbach: Melka; Eberl, Korell, Witeczek, M?nch; van Houdt (63. Lawrence Aidoo), Demo (77. Nielsen), Kluge, Felgenhauer; van Lent, Auer (54. Stassin)

Schalke 1
VfL Wolfsburg 2

VfL Wolfsburg: Reitmaier;Rytter, Biliskov, Schnoor, Weiser; Sarpei, Karhan (9. Munteanu), Akonnor; Ponte (86. Kryger), Petrow; Maric (84. Juskowiak)

GERMAN DIVISION 2
FC Saarbr?cken 4
SSV Reutlingen 3

SSV Reutlingen: Curko; Kies, Sbordone, Kovar, Dressler;Hoffmann, Aduobe, Becker (30. Malchow), Weigl;Garcia (46. Djappa), Gerster

Alemannia Aachen 1
VfL Bochum 3

Alemannia Aachen: Straub; Frank Schmidt (46. Bayock), Spanier, Edwin Bediako;Landgraf (46. Caillas), Grilic, Rauw, Heeren (60. Hildmann); Daun, Diane, Ivanovic

GREECE

ITALY
ITALY SERIE B
Bari 1
Cosenza 0

Cosenza: Aldegani, Guzzo (31'Di Sole), Maldonado, Oshadogan, Modesto, Mark Edusei (78'Tatti), Moscardi, Morrone, Antonelli, Lentini (72'Imbriani), Zaniolo.

CROTONE 4 - 14'Sarli, 34'Deflorio, 44'Juric, 92'Gonzales, GENOA 3 -16'Manetti, 58' John Mensah,94'Stroppa

Genoa: Lorieri, John Mensah, Nastase, Giacchetta, Lombardi (46'Bouzaiene), Manetti, Mutarelli, Codrea (75'Stroppa), Malag?, Mihalcea (67'Mhadhbi), Carparelli.

NETHERLANDS ( End of Season)
Yakubu's Ajax wrapped up their 28th Dutch title with a 2-0 win at NEC Nijmegen on the final day of the league season. yakubu came on as a second half substitute

RKC and Vitesse managed to cook up much excitement with a five-goal thriller in RKC's 3-2 win. Jochen Janssen, Yuri Cornelisse and Robert Fuchs all found the net for RKC, while Matthew Amoah and Tim Cornelisse were on target for Vitesse, playing their last game under the stewardship of Edwin Sturing.
PORTUGAL

ROMANIA

RUSSIA

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND (A/B RELEGATION/PROMOTION)
Winterthur 1 - 82 Neny
Wil 1 - 64 Felix Mordeku

TURKEY (End of Season)
Sam Johnson's Fenerbahce hosted Diyarbakirspor and won 3-1. played the whol game. Even though their team missed out on the championship, thousands of Fener fans made sure Galatasaray's title celebrations did not take over the Istanbul streets altogether by staging a long and noisy demonstration of support on Bagdat Street in the club's Kadikoy heartland.

The last outstanding issues in the Turkish Super League were settled on Saturday. Yaw Acheampong's and Yaw Preko's Yozgatspor and Emmanuel Tetteh's Rizespor. were relegated from the top flight

G?ztepe 4
Trabzonspor 2

Trabzonspor: B?lent Ataman, G?ng?r ?zt?rk, Georgi Slavev Markov, G?khan Kolomo?, Osman ?zk?yl?, Hasan ???nc? (80' Patrick Villars), Marco Aurelio Brito dos Prazeres, G?kdeniz Karadeniz, Erman ?zg?r, Robson da Silva Ourique (69' ?enol Erol), Alban Bushi
Diyarbak?rspor: ?enol Karag?l, Murat Duman, Rahim Zafer, Gerino Santos Moura, B?lent B?l?kba??, ?mer Erdo?an, ?nder Deniz Kolgu, Ergin Y?ceta? (73' Anderson Rodrigues da Silva), Celaleddin Ko?ak, Andre Kona N'Gole (55' Deblah Kofi), Fazl? Ulusal (46' Tuncay Aksoy)

?aykur Rizespor K 3 - 19' Tetteh, 30' Hasan, 35' Recep
MKE Ankarag?c? SK 2 - 47' Mehmet, 76' H?seyin

Rizespor: Murat Yi?iter, Evren K?rk??, Oumar Dieng, Recep As?l, G?nd?z G?rol Azer, ?nal Alpu?an, Erhan Naml? (81' Mutlu Sezer), Serkan ?zdemir, ?mit Ozan Kazmaz (69' Zeki Sonbay), Hasan ?zer (61' Okan ?zt?rk), Emmanuel Tetteh

Galatasaray 5
Yimpa? Yozgatspor 0

Yozgatspor: G?khan Tokg?z, Cihat Arslan, Selim ?zer, Mustafa ?zer, Atakan Sancarbarlaz (54' Joachim Yaw Acheampong), ?lhan ?zbay, Hamza Hamzao?lu, H?seyin Sunar Karakay?? (81' ?evki Ko?), Mehmet ?im?ek, Antti Markus Sumiala (68' Muasa Sakyi), Yaw Preko