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Fans planning to attend the Euro 2000 soccer championship will be able to buy just two tickets per game, Belgian Interior Minister Luc Van den Bosshe has said.
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SportsLine, the US internet sports information service, which runs web-site such as CBS SportsLine, soccernet and Golfweb, is to develop a $50milion European subsidiary in partnership with Intel, MediaOne and Reuters.

A day after Dutch soccer club Ajax Amsterdam clinched a place in next season's Champions League qualifying rounds, tax inspectors arrived at the club to investigate allegations of irregular payments.
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The Euro 2000 Foundation closed its doors and its books yesterday with an 18 million euro ($17 million) profit to be channelled to youth football in the Netherlands and Belgium, the tournament's co-hosts.
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The eight quarter-finalists from the 1999 World Cup will be granted automatic qualification for the 2003 tournament in Australia and New Zealand, the International Rugby Board said on Friday.
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Glasgow Rangers chairman David Murray has revealed that the Ibrox club, along with rivals Celtic, have agreed in principle to join a new pan-European football league.
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TalkSPORT, the UK's only sports radio station, has defeated the BBC today in London's High Court over its coverage of soccer?s Euro 2000 tournament.
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The 2000 Cuervo Wakeboard Pro Tour, which is taking place this summer in five venues across Europe, has secured a series of five TV programmes in the Meridian, Anglia and HTV regions.

Most players in this year's Euro 2000 tournament will have to pay 18 percent of their earnings in tax, tournament officials have announced.

Dutch soccer club PSV Eindhoven chairman Harry van Raaij believes his club will quit the Dutch championship to play in a 16-team European league by 2002, according to reports.
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Dutch police are expecting to be overstretched during the 2000 European soccer championship and their union is already calling for the three-week tournament to be shortened by a week.
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A joint four nation Nordic bid to host the European Championship finals of 2008 is to be considered, a spokesman for the Danish soccer federation has said.
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Electronic giants Philips has renewed its sponsorship of soccer's Euro 2000 tournament.
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Teleglobe Broadcast Services have been selected by News Corps units Fox Digital and Fox Sports to provide digital video transmission of National Football League Europe games to North American viewers on Fox Sports, Fox Sports Net and DirectTV.
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Italian champions Lazio will move out of the Olympic Stadium to a new 50,000-capacity ground in the suburbs of Rome surrounded by restaurants and hotels, the club said on Monday.

A two-week suspension of Greek domestic football will have no impact on UEFA Champions League fixtures involving Greek teams, both involved clubs said on Friday.

The wealth disparity between big soccer clubs from poor leagues and those from rich leagues has been highlighted by the high-spending guests - Lazio, Barcelona and Arsenal- who have been invited to a friendly tournament hosted by the famous Dutch club, Ajax Amsterdam. For more, see FEATURES

The chief executive of Dutch soccer club Ajax Amsterdam has resigned after overseeing one of the most turbulent periods in the club's history.