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Soccer coached yanked three weeks before Olympics

About a week after sacking men's national team coach Vladimir Petrovic and, more remarkably, three weeks before the Olympics, China removed its men's soccer (football) Olympic head coach Ratomir Dujkovic on Thursday. The Chinese Football Association (CFA)... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Sun, Jul 20 2008

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