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Soccer News of Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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Ghanaians in Europe March 14 - 16


The performances of Ghanaian players across the leagues in Europe at the weekend: (Updated constantly...Check for updates)

AUSTRIA
Sturm Graz 2-1 VfB Admira Wacker: Charles Amoah played 90 minutes

Salzburg 1-1 Liebherr GAK : ADU SKELLEY TUTU played 90 minutes

BELGIUM: Jupiler League
KFC Germinal Beerschot Antwerpen are still in relegation trouble after Ole Martin Aarst's strike gave R. Standard de Li?ge a single-goal victory in Antwerp. Anthony Obodai played 45mins; Kwame Quansah played 90mins on the losing side.

CZECH

DENMARK: Superleague
FC Midtjylland moved into third place after a well-deserved 2-0 win against Esbjerg fB. Frank Kristensen scored for Midtjylland after 38 minutes, and midway through the second half. Razak Pimpong came on in the 72 min. Six minutes later captain Thomas Thomasberg decided the match from the penalty spot.

FRANCE
French Cup, so no league matches.

Division 2
Friday : Saint-Etienne/Amiens 4-1 (Ligue 2). Quaye didn't play (he was not qualified for this postponed game). Razak didn't play.

Sunday : Saint-Etienne/Luzenac 1-0 (Ligue 4). Razak played and had a very bad game. He is not the same player that he was in August 2002 !!!
Report by Eric VINCENT

(from Abeeku Gaisie) --Yesterday 16th of March 2003, is a day I will never forget. why? because it was my birthday and we were eliminated in the gambadella cup for the u/18 sides of France my coach had to convince three players of the team B, including me to play in this match , because it was a very tough match. We where leading by A lone goal when the referee gave out a freak penalty to them in the 92nd minute to the end of the match. Unfortunately for us, we lost in the penalty shoot out.
How we scored. I took on two defenders at the right Wing because I am very fast i managed to fall in front Of them to give a shoot across to our striker who Controlled the ball and placed it in the goal. The match was between amien a second division club. The picture attached was taking during warm-up bye

GERMANY: Bundesliga
Hansa Rostock 1 Werder Bremen 0
Lineup for Hansa Rostock Schober;Hill, Jakobsson, Hirsch;Persson, Lantz, Wibran (70. Arvidsson), Kovar,Meggle (90. Adoube);Salou, di Salvo (79. Prica)

Arminia Bielefeld 4 Borussia M?nchengladbach 1
Lineup for M?nchengladbach: Stiel;Eberl, Pletsch, Strasser, Embers;Korzynietz (78. Felgenhauer), Demo, Kluge; L. Aidoo (46. van Houdt), Forssell, Ketelaer (78. Skoubo

DIVISION 2
Eintracht Trier 1 SSV Reutlingen 2
Lineup for SSV Reutlingen: Curko;Kies, Sbordone, Uns?ld, Ogungbure;Weigl (26. Spanier), Becker, Rolfes, Bashiru Gambo;Hoffmann (89. Paeslack), Frommer (76. Gerster)

GREECE: Hellenic National League
Ionikos - Olympiakos 0-2
Second-placed Olympiakos Piraeus FC kept up the pressure on the leaders with a deserved 2-0 win away at Ionikos FC. Defender Giorgios Amanatidis put the away side in front after 34 minutes from a Predrag Djordjevic corner, before forward Peter Ofori-Quaye doubled the lead. It could have been even better for Olympiakos, but Djordjevic's last-minute free-kick hit the post.

IRAKLIS - PAS Giannina 3-0: Very good appearance for IRAKLIS FC. The team won PAS Giannina 3-0 Eben Hagan played the full game.

ISRAEL
Hapoel Petah Tikva 3 Maccabi Netanya 2
Hapoel Petach Tikva 3 - Maccabi Natanya 2 Maccabi Natanya took a 2-0 lead after goals from Lobarski in the 45th minute after Tzarfati's pass and in the 53rd minute with Ishmael Addo's goal from 6 meters after Tzarfati's pass.
But Hapoel Petach Tikva didn't sleep, and 5 minutes later Eliav scored the 1-2 after Gal Cohen's pass. In the 67th minute Hasan scored the equalizer from the spot after Eliav was fouled in the box. 14 minutes from time Osibob scored the winner from 6 meters.

ITALY: Serie A
Josep Guardiola scored from the spot to give Brescia a 1-0 victory over Torino. Stephen Appiah played the full game on the right side of midfield.

Parma secured a fine 4-0 victory at tough-to-beat Chievo. John Mensah was in defence for Chievo

Muntari had a rare start in the center of midfield as his side Udinese went down 0-1 away from home to Bologna. Muntari was substituted in the 70min

Serie B Genoa - Venezia 0-0
(4-4-2): Soviero; Adami, Calori, Gargo, Maldonado; Rossi, Anderson, (st 45' Amerini), Firmani, Mancini (st 42' Guerra); Fantini, Da Costa (st 13' Poggi).

Cosenza - Triestina 1-0
(4-4-2): Agliardi; Brioschi, Oshdogan, Marco Aurelio, Sabato; Antonelli (45' st Tedoldi), Edusei, Tedesco, Lentini (26' st Baldi); Gonzales, Guidoni.

NETHERLANDS
Ajax 2 : 1 Excelsior : Yakubu, Abubakari played 90 minutes

Vitesse Arnhem 0 - 0 PSV Eindhoven: Matthew Amoah played 90 min for Vitesse

Roda JC Kerkrade 0-0 NAC Breda: Eric Addo played 90 minutes for Roda. Kofi Mensah played the full game for NEC

NORWAY: Tippeligaen

POLAND
Ablade's ITC has not been provided by GFA, so he is at the moment not able to play the League.

PORTUGAL

ROMANIA

RUSSIA

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND

TURKEY
Turkish Super League leaders Besiktas JK maintained their three-point advantage at the head of the standings thanks to a narrow 1-0 win against MKE Ankarag?c?. Augustine Ahinful played 90 minutes for Ankarag?c?

Elaz??spor 3-3 Fenerbah?e
Elaz??spor: Richard Kingston, Mehmet Ali ?akmak, Cem Beceren, Hac? Arif Durgut, Erdem Gen?, Juray Cz?nege, ?m?t Hatipo?lu, Erhan Eren Kurnaz, Z? Roberto, Erhan Naml?, Lubomir Meszaros

Richard Kingston
MuntariEric Addo Gargo A. Yakubu
E. HaganS. AppiahEduseiAdu Skelley Tutu
Ofori-Quaye I. Addo