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| Three Cubans defect before World Cup qualifier in Canada Posted: 14 Oct 2012 08:44 AM PDT BERLIN, Oct 14 — Three members of Cuba's national football team defected before a 2014 World Cup qualifying tournament in Canada this week, world football's governing body FIFA said today. Three players had gone missing on Thursday in Toronto prior to their team's match against Canada a day later, which the hosts won 3-0. "FIFA can confirm that three players defected already last Thursday, leaving the Cuban team with 11 players in the squad for the qualifier against Canada," FIFA said in a statement. There is a history of Cuban athletes defecting to pursue a potentially lucrative professional career outside communist-run Cuba. Seven members of Cuba's Olympic football team defected in Florida in 2008 after a game against the United States. In March, a Cuban football player left his team while they were in Tennessee for an Olympic qualifying tournament. — Reuters |
| Zidane eyes France job as he joins coaching programme Posted: 14 Oct 2012 08:13 AM PDT  Not one of Zidane's most glorious moments: Algerian-born artist Adel Abdessemed casts in a statue in front of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris, Zidane (left) head-butting Italian defender Marco Materazzi during the 2006 finals of the World Cup. — Reuters file pic "I will pass my coaching diplomas (at INF)," 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winner Zidane told French sports daily L'Equipe. Asked if he would be interested in coaching France one day, he said: "Why not, one day, coach this team..." — Reuters |
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