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Ronaldinho joins Brazil with ankle injury
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil: Ronaldinho reported for training with Brazil on Tuesday with a twisted ankle, team doctor Jose Luis Runco said.
The Barcelona playmaker took part in a workout in the gymnasium with his teammates but then underwent a physiotherapy session rather than a run around the training fields.
Runco said it was too early to say whether Ronaldinho would be fit in time for Sunday's World Cup qualifier away to Peru.
"His right ankle is a little bit swollen and we will evaluate it day by day," said Runco.
Coach Dunga said: "If the team doctor says it's too early to tell, who am I to say whether he will be able to play.
"But I have every confidence in our doctors and I know that they are working with the idea of him playing on Sunday."
Adebayor fires shot across United bows
LONDON: Emmanuel Adebayor believes Arsenal has proved that it will push Manchester United all the way to the wire in the Premier League title race this season.
The Gunners ensured they will remain at the top of the table for another two weeks after beating Reading 3-1 at the Madejski stadium on Monday night, extending their unbeaten run to 27 matches.
"The most important thing was to do a good job and win the game - but to be back at the top is great as well," Adebayor said. "It is very important going into the international break. It gives us a lot of confidence.
"We wanted to stay ahead of Manchester and show them we are strong - and we have done that.
"Of course, it is a long title race - and it's where you are at the end of the season that matters. But we are very happy with how things are going."
Domenech scotches bottle offer
CLAIREFONTAINE, France: France coach Raymond Domenech turned down the offer of a bottle of Scotch whisky from a Scottish journalist here on Tuesday.
The France coach said that the last time he had accepted a bottle of Scotch from another Scottish journalist, his side had lost to Scotland - the only team to have beaten them twice in the Euro 2008 qualifiers.
Scotland plays world champion Italy on Saturday in Glasgow and it could give France a headache by qualifying for Euro 2008 by beating the Italians.
That would qualify Scotland for its first major international competition in 10 years, but defeat for Alex McLeish's side would qualify France even before its final encounter against Ukraine next week.
If Scotland upsets the Group B odds, France will need at least a draw in Ukraine on November 21 to have any chance of qualifying for the European Championships - otherwise Italy will progress at its expense.
Strange, Green inducted to Hall of Fame
JACKSONVILLE, Florida: Two-time US Open winner Curtis Strange headlined a group of a half-dozen players who were inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Hubert Green, Kel Nagle, Charles Blair Macdonald and Joe Carr and current LPGA star Si Ri Pak made up the rest of the 2007 new members.
Strange finished his career with 17 PGA victories, winning his first major at the 1988 US Open at Brookline.
The following year at Oak Hill, Strange became the first player since Ben Hogan in 1951 to win back-to-back US Opens.
Green won 19 PGA Tour titles, including the 1977 US Open and 1985 PGA Championship.
Nagle, who won more than 60 times on the Australian Tour, famously beat Arnold Palmer to win the 1960 British Open at St. Andrews.
Carr won three British Amateur titles.
The 29-year-old Pak was the youngest person inducted. The five-time major winner is credited with starting the influx of South Korean-born players on the LPGA Tour.
(China Daily 11/15/2007 page23)
