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Soccer News of Tuesday, 4 February 2003

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Ghanaians in Europe Feb 1-3/2003


The performances of Ghanaian players across the leagues in Europe at the weekend:

AUSTRIA

BELGIUM: Jupiler League
The Belgian Football Association (URBSFA-KBVB) called off last weekend's league fixtures in the face of heavy snowfalls across the country.

CZECH

DENMARK: Superleague

FRANCE
The Corsician derby between AC Ajaccio and SC Bastia ended 1-1, with Bruno Rodriguez giving Ajaccio the lead shortly before half-time before Franck Silvestre salvaged a point for Bastia with a free-kick equaliser. Micka?l ESSIEN played 90 minutes

Division 2

Ibrahim Razak (ASSE) played in "A" team (Lorient/ASSE 1-1). Lawrence Quaye(ASSE) played in "B" team (Ajaccio/ASSE 2-0).

Last week, Quaye signed his first professionnal contrat.

GERMANY: Bundesliga
1. FC N?rnberg 0-1 FC Hansa Rostock
Rostock: M. Schober - R. Maul, D. Hill, A. Jakobsson, G. Wimmer - M. Lantz, P. Wibran - J. Persson, G. Aduobe - M. Arvidsson (78. D. Hirsch) - R. Prica

DSC Arminia Bielefeld 0-0 FC Bayern M?nchen
Bayern: O. Kahn - S. Kuffour, R. Kovac, T. Linke, B. Lizarazu - O. Hargreaves - B. Schweinsteiger (72. M. Feulner), J. Jeremies - A. Zickler - G. Elber, C. Pizarro

GREECE: Hellenic National League

ISRAEL
Maccabi Tel Aviv's season didn't start so well, but the stars have moved in their favour lately. This time Maccabi beat MS Ashdod 4-1 to go into 2nd place in the league. Ashdod, on the other end, are in a bad situation and placed in the relegation zone.
Maccabi Tel Aviv finished the game in the 83rd minute when the new arrival John Pantsil passed a wonderful ball between two Ashdod defenders to Torgeman who scored nicely from 10 meters against Ben Ishay, 3-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Maccabi Tel Aviv: Shtraober 6; Strol 5, Brumer 5, Ben Haim 5, Abu Siam 6; Banin 6, Heyes 6, Biton 5(Pantsil 57'- 6), Goldberg 6(Nimni 64'- 6), Dego 8; Prohanenkovas 6(Torgeman 78').

Natanya's good days continued with a nice away win. Ishmal Addo scored the first goal in the 63rd minute after a great pass from Reoven Atar. Atar himself scored the second in the 72nd minute when Tzokol kicked the ball but Ben Hamo saved it, Atar collected the rebound and scored.

ITALY: Seria A
BRESCIA strengthened their chances of avoiding relegation from Serie A and increased Piacenza's with a 4-1 victory at Stadio Galleana.

The visitors were dangerously close to the drop zone prior to the contest, but following the rout they now have breathing space between themselves and the bottom four.

The contest began evenly enough with Dario Hubner cancelling out Stephan Appiah's opener, though it was one-way traffic for the remainder of the contest.

Italian legend Roberto Baggio restored the visitors' advantage, and the win was looking good when Luca Toni made it three shortly after the interval.

With the contest entering the closing stages, and the home fans heading for the exit, substitute Igli Tare completed the rout with a last-gasp fourth.

Parma 3-2 Udinese
(3-5-2): De Sanctis; Bertotto, Sottil, Kroldrup; Alberto, Pinzi (30' st Muntari), Pizarro, Rossitto (33' pt Warley), Gemiti; Jankulovski; Muzzi.

Serie B

Bari 0-1 Venezia
(4-4-2): Soviero; Adami, Gargo, Calori, Maldonado; Rossi, Anderson, Firmani, Manetti (34' st Guerra); Fantini, Paulo Costa (44' st Soligo).

NETHERLANDS

NORWAY: Tippeligaen

PORTUGAL
EMMANUEL DUAH came on as a subtitute in the 70th minute with his team, Vicente, down by four goals to one. The game ended 5-3 against DUAH's team. They played against top of the league FC PORTO

ROMANIA

RUSSIA

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND

TURKEY
Elazığspor 0-0 G?ztepe

Elazığspor: Richard Kingston (70 Orkun Uşak), ?nal Sarı (62 Erdem Gen?), B?lent Bal, Cem Beceren, Mehmet Deliorman, Erhan Eren Kurnaz, Lubomir Meszaros, Erhan Namlı, ?m?t Hatipoğlu, H?seyin Yenikan (62 Cem Yanık), Osman Yeşilmeşe

Malatyaspor 3-1 Ankarag?c?
37 Augustine Ahinful (Missed penalty - goalkeeper saved)
Ankarag?c?: Zafer ?zg?ltekin, Adem Dursun, G?kmen Barış, Yılmaz ?zlem, Stelian Carabas (46 ?zg?r Volkan Yıldırım), Hakan Keleş, H?seyin Kartal, Augustine Ahinful, Mehmet T?rkmehmet (83 Rogerio De Jesus Albuquerque), Reinaldo Vicente Sim?o (46 Stephen Baidoo), İhsan Burak ?zsara?

Fenerbah?e 0-1 Beşiktaş
Fenerbah?e: R?şt? Re?ber, Fatih Akyel, Og?n Temizkanoğlu, ?mit ?zat, Abdullah Ercan, Ali G?neş, Hakan Bayraktar (67 Miroslav Stević), Ceyhun Eriş (59 Arnaldo Ariel Ortega), Samuel Johnson, Tuncay Şanlı (46 Mustafa Doğan), Serhat Akın