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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2010

Tiger Woods (in pic with wife Elin Nordegren) tops theBloomberg BusinessWeek list of America’s most

powerful athletes, with the companies saying he wouldhave held the top spoteven if his infidelity hadbecome public earlier

last year. The list released on Wednesday is based onearning potential and was compiled with the assistanceof CSE and Horrow Sports Ventures. LeBron James ofthe NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers was second, followed bygolfer Phil Mickelson. AP

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Egypt, Ghana in title clashBenguela: Egypt and Ghana have ad-vanced to the African Nations Cup final,maintaining their records as the tour-nament’s most successful teams. Theywill both play in a final for an eighth timewhen they meet in Luanda on Sunday af-ter Ghana edged out Nigeria 1-0 and Egyptthumped Algeria 4-0 in the semifinals.

Egypt, who remain on course for arecord-breaking third successive title,will be heavily fancied against the in-jury-hit Ghanaian team, who overcamethe absence of several key players tobook their first final in 18 years.

Egypt had been eliminated fromWorld Cup qualification by Algeria butextracted a measure of revenge with thevictory in a game that saw three Alger-ian players sent off. Rafik Halliche, Nad-er Belhadj and goalkeeper FawziChaouchi were red-carded while HosniAbd Rabou (penalty), Mohamed Zidan,Mohamed Abdelshafi and MohamedNagui scored for Egypt.

“It’s clear the referee spoilt the game.The first red card was for nothing andwe were completely deflated by that,” Al-

geria coach Rabah Saadane said. Ghanaturned in a tight defensive performanceto beat Nigeria, Asamoah Gyan’s 21st-minute header the difference betweenthe sides. Ghana went into the tourna-ment without several key players andthen lost captain Michael Essien afterhe suffered a knee injury in training.

Egypt, who stretched their record-breaking unbeaten run at the NationsCup to 18 games after Thursday’s win,

have won six titles while Ghana havewon four. Thursday’s losers meet in aplay-off match in Benguela on Saturday.

Inter win: Mario Balotelli scored a minutefrom time to give Inter Milan a 2-1 winover beleaguered Juventus in their Ital-ian Cup quarterfinal on Thursday, leav-ing Juve coach Ciro Ferrara on the brinkof the sack. On Friday, Juventus endedCiro Ferrara’s troubled stint as coachand installed former AC Milan and In-

ter Milan boss Alberto Zaccheroni inhis place until the end of the season.Juve went ahead in the 10th-min-utethrough Diego.

Hosts Inter deservedly equalized whenLucio prodded in Wesley Sneijder’s de-flected free kick midway through the sec-ond half and forward Balotelli sealed vic-tory after Gianluigi Buffon could only par-ry Thiago Motta’s shot.

Atletico, Getafe in semis: Diego Forlanfired Atletico Madrid into the King’sCup semifinals on Wednesday when hisclinical finish sealed a 2-1 aggregate winat second-division strugglers Celta Vigo.

The Uruguay striker robbed defend-er Francisco Noguerol in the 26th minuteand after sprinting clear lashed a pow-erful shot into the bottom corner pastgoalkeeper Yoel Rodriguez.Results: Italian Cup: Quarterfinal: Inter Milan 2 (Lucio

70, Balotelli 89) btJuventus 1 (Diego 10).

Spanish King’s Cup quarterfinal (second leg): Getafe 0 lost

to Mallorca 1 (Aduriz 45), 2-2 on aggregate, Getafe win

on away goals; Celta Vigo 0 lost to Atletico Madrid 1 (For-

lan 26), Atletico Madrid win 2-1 on aggregate. AGENCIES

FOOTBALLFOREIGN ROUND-UP

I-League to be16-team affair

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New Delhi: The I-League willbe a 16-team affair in its next edi-tion. It was decided at the AIFFexecutive committee meetingpresided by president Praful Pa-tel in the Capital on Friday.

Currently it is a 14-teamcompetition. However, the se-lection criteria of the teams willbe decided later, the AIFF sec-retary said. The relegation oftwo teams and the promotionof two from the 2nd divisionwill stay.

It was also decided that play-ers selected to the national teamwill not be allowed to play inSantosh Trophy. The tourna-ment has come under fire fromnational coach Bob Houghtonas well as a few national teamplayers as it imposes extra pres-sure on them.The decisions:

1. All affiliated state associations to con-

form their statutes in line with FIFA, AFC

& AIFF constitution by Dec 2010.

2. To have at least two dedicated venues

for the AIFF to conduct competitions.

3. To add two teams to the I-League next

year by direct selection. These teams

shall not be from either West Bengal,

Goa or Maharashtra. Special criteria to

be laid by AIFF for such teams.

4. Two teams will be relegated from I-

League 2009-10. Two teams will be pro-

moted from 2nd Division and two by di-

rect selection to make it 16 teams for

2010-11.

5. All I-league clubs to meet club licensing

criteria in the time frame to be issued

by AIFF.

6. National team players (Asian Games

and senior national team ) will not be al-

lowed to play in the National football

championship for Santosh Trophy.

7. The national team preparation pro-

gramme was approved. The following

camps will be held:

Senior team: Feb 4-26, 2010 in Dubai.

Jun 24-Aug 15: camp in Europe.

Asian Games Team: Feb 4-14 at Pune.

The team will participate in the AFC Chal-

lenge Cup in Sri Lanka from Feb 15-27.

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