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ROBERTO MARTINEZ NEWS
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has confirmed he will bid for Mario Balotelli should Inter Milan opt to sell the highly-rated striker.
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Roberto Mancini has said he will bid for Mario Balotelli should Inter Milan opt to sell the highly-rated striker.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italian Roberto Rosetti quit refereeing on Thursday but said his decision had nothing to do with allowing a clearly offside goal in the World Cup.
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MANCHESTER (AFP) - Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini believes his side are well-placed to improve upon last season's fifth place finish in the Premier League and join European's elite.
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Wood-burning stoves, in-room recycling, fine cuisine featuring local produce: from bed-and-breakfasts to five-star palaces, France's hotel industry is opening its eyes to the lucrative advantages of going green."Our business involves a lot of water, electricity and rubbish, so our goal is to limit our impact on the environment and considerably reduce our carbon emissions," said Bernard Granier, director general of Concorde Hotels, which runs the opulent Le Crillon in Paris and the Hotel Martinez in Cannes.
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Toronto FC has signed Spanish forward Miguel Angel Ferrer Martinez for the remainder of the MLS season.
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Christian Karembeu did it in 1998. Roberto Carlos repeated the feat in 2002. This year it could well be Wesley Sneijder, on course to be part of a Champions League and World Cup-winning team in the space of little more than a month.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Peter Thomson, Tom Weiskopf, Bob Charles and Roberto de Vicenzo will captain the seven teams in the Champions Challenge to be held on the eve of next week's British Open at St Andrews.
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POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa (Reuters) - Spain midfielder Javi Martinez hurt an ankle in training and may be unavailable for the European champions' quarter-final against Paraguay on Saturday.
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Germany are the uncrowned kings of World Cup penalty shoot-outs, but coach Joachim Loew is taking nothing for granted ahead of Saturday's quarter-final against Argentina.Germany beat Argentina 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out four years ago when spot-kicks decided their quarter-final clash at Berlin's Olympic Stadium at the last World Cup as the hosts finished third.Ex-Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was the hero of the hour then as he saved penalties by Roberto Ayala and Esteban Cambiasso after theatrically reading a briefing note just before the spot-kicks to put off the pair.
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Argentina were leading Mexico 2-0 at half-time in their World Cup last 16 match at the Soccer City Stadium here on Sunday with Carlos Tevez and Gonzalo Higuain on target after 26 and 33 minutes.A match against Germany awaits the winners.But Tevez's goal was controversial as he was in an offside position when he scored, a situation confirmed by replays on the giant TV screens.With the goal already awarded, referee Roberto Rosetti was unable to change his decision.
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Olympic road race champion Samuel Sanchez of Spain will lead the Basque team Euskaltel's efforts at this year's Tour de France.The 32-year-old from Oviedo heads the team that is hoping to match last year's success on stage 16 and pick up at least one stage win during the July 3-25 race.Inaki Isasi and Ivan Vedasco come into the all-Spanish team.Euskaltel:Inaki Isasi (ESP), Juanjo Oroz (ESP), Alan Perez (ESP), Ruben Perez (ESP), Samuel Sanchez (ESP), Egoi Martinez (ESP), Amets Txurruka (ESP), Ivan Velasco (ESP), Gorka Verdugo (ESP)
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Slick suits by Roberto Cavalli at Milan Menswear Fashion Week.
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The Red Sox' Victor Martinez tried several gloves before settling on the best one to catch the knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
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Fourteen people were killed after suspected Mara 18 gang members attacked two buses in El Salvador, police officials said.In the first attack on the outskirts of San Salvador, arsonists thought to be Mara 18 members set fire to a minibus, killing 11 passengers, Roberto Villalobos, a top commissioner with the national civil police, told AFP.In the second incident, suspected Mara 18 members boarded a public bus in the same area and opened fire on its passengers, killing an adult and two girls, aged seven and nine.
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Eleven people were killed and eight left wounded after suspected gang members set fire to a public bus on the outskirts of San Salvador, police officials said.Arsonists thought to be members of the Mara 18 gang set fire to the minibus, but "there are no clear motives" for the attack, Roberto Villalobos, a top commissioner with the national civil police, told AFP."It seems that the gang wanted to prove something to authorities, for the actions being taken against gangs and crime," Villalobos said.
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Roberto Alomar, the former Toronto Blue Jays second baseman who dazzled fans with his glove and his bat, was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday in St. Marys, Ont.
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Roberto Alomar, the former Toronto Blue Jays second baseman who dazzled fans with his glove and his bat, was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Fall of Fame on Saturday in St. Marys, Ont.
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Italian champion in acrobatic pizza-making, Roberto Fabiani, gave RT a masters class, sharing his experience of living and hanging out in Moscow.
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Nine people have been killed when a plane belonging to a politician running for governor in a Mexican state crashed, his staff said.But Roberto Borge, the powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)'s candidate for governor in the state of Quintana Roo, was not aboard at the time, said spokesman Gabriel Mendicutti."There were nine people, unfortunately all dead," said Mendicutti. "Roberto Borge was not aboard but we have found the airplane."
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