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ST. LOUIS -- Bosnia-Herzogovina made its second
appearance in St. Louis in six months. This time, it gave
its large, raucous local fan base plenty to cheer about.
Edin Dzeko scored both goals in a 2-1 victory over Ivory
Coast on Friday night in the run-up to the countrys first
World Cup appearance. "We knew they were going to be a
powerful team with good pace and they showed that,"
goalkeeper Asmir Begovic said. "It was a good test for us
to play against a good team and we enjoyed it." Its
estimated more than 30,000 Bosnians relocated to St.
Louis from the former war-torn Yugoslavia, and the games
have provided an opportunity to display national pride.
Argentina shut out the national team 2-0 in November
across downtown at Busch Stadium. "It was the engagement,
Im happy with the way they were involved in the game,"
coach Safet Susic said through an interpreter. "The last
time they left disappointed, not in the result, in the
way they played." Long-time Ivory Coast standout Didier
Drogba scored on a free kick in the 91st minute. The 36-
year-old Drogba did not start but had another good
scoring chance after entering in the second half. "The
coach needs to see everyone before he makes his
decisions," Drogba said. "I feel good. I was working out,
I was injured a few weeks ago and I worked hard to come
back to fitness. Im pretty happy with what Im doing at
the moment." Drogba was almost apologetic about getting
the free kick, said it was "not a good reason." The
attendance was 14,101, less than half the turnout for the
Argentina match and more than 50,000 shy of capacity at
the Edward Jones Dome while the Cardinals-Giants game was
sold out. Virtually all of the fans were near field level
and Bosnian supporters concentrated behind the net
defended by team in the first half did their best to make
up for the low numbers, chanting and singing songs to an
incessant drum beat. Fans hurled numerous smoke bombs and
some flares, too, in the vicinity of Ivory Coast
goalkeeper Sylvain Gbouhouo in the second half. Gbouhouo
tossed them aside when he had the chance while clouds
accompanied by an acrid odour hung over the pitch. "It is
something which is normal for us, for our supporters,"
Susic said. "We have had more." A grass field at the
dome, where the Rams play on field turf, was installed
earlier in the week for the game. Crews began digging it
out a little more than an hour after the game ended.
Dzeko, a striker for Manchester City and Bosnias top
offensive threat, scored 10 of the countrys 30 goals in
World Cup qualifying. Dzeko had an empty net in the 17th
minute after an Ivory Coast defender blocked a shot by
Zvjezdan Misimovic. He corralled a hard pass from Miralem
Pjanic in the 53rd minute and scored just inside the left
post. Bosnian forward Vedad Ibisevic, who played at Saint
Louis University, was a reserve and entered in the 60th
minute. Susic said Ibisevic didnt start because he didnt
want two offensive players at forward. Next week, Bosnia
plays Mexico in Chicago and Ivory Coast plays El Salvador
in Frisco, Texas.
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Rondo made a key jumper with 24.1 seconds remaining, as
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challenging shots on goal in their 1-0 loss Friday night,
the Bruins had 18 shots in the first period after
managing just 25 in the entire opener. Luke Glendening
cut Bostons lead to 2-1 at 13:20 of the second period
before Milan Lucic scored late in the second and Zdeno
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high jumping, and finished with 4,830 points, while
Theisen-Eaton, from Humboldt, Sask., set a national
record of 4,768.MADRID, Spain -- Luis Aragones, the
former Spain coach who shaped the teams rise from
perennial underachiever to global powerhouse with a long-
awaited title at the 2008 European Championship, has
died. He was 75. The Spanish football federation
announced the death early Saturday, saying Aragones died
at a Madrid hospital. He had been battling leukemia.
Federation president Angel Maria Villar said Aragones
would be remembered as "very special" -- both for his
contributions to Spanish football and as a person. "With
him we have lived the beginning of an extraordinary phase
in football as well as for Spanish society," Villar said.
"This has been a painful dawn for our football." Aragones
had a successful playing career as a sharpshooting
international forward who earned 11 caps for Spain, and
then spent the rest of his life as a much-travelled
coach. However, he will mostly be remembered for what
happened on June 29, 2008, when his team beat Germany 1-0
in Vienna to claim its first major title in 44 years.
"Luis Aragones changed the history of Spanish football,"
Spain captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas said. "And for
that we will always be thankful." The Euro 2008 triumph
was the culmination of Aragones four-year reign as Spain
coach, having taken over a team that for the last 20
years had earned a reputation for always coming up short
in major tournaments. But Aragones instilled a new sense
of belief in his players, even after losing to France in
the second round of the 2006 World Cup. He also made the
team adopt the quick-passing "tiki-taka" style of
football made famous by Barcelona, and which his players
came close to perfecting at Euro 2008. Led by Barcelona
midfielders Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta -- and the
goalscoring of David Villa -- Spain went undefeated
through the tournament, but needed a penalty shootout
against Italy to advance from the quarterfinals. While
Aragones stepped down after the tournament, the team went
on to win its first World Cup two years later and then
added an unprecedented third straight major title at Euro
2012 under his successor Vicente del Bosque. "Without a
doubt, our current run of success is a result of his
legacy," Del Bosque said on Saturday, after paying his
respects to Aragones family. "He had a long history of
coaching experience and he had a special appreciation for
the game." But Aragones time in charge wasnt without
controversy. He made a racist slur about France striker
Thierry Henry -- who is black -- during a training
session in October, 2004, and followed that remark with
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comments were believed to have prompted ugly racist
chants directed at Englands black players during a
friendly against Spain in Madrid. The Spanish Football
Federation refused to bow to pressure to fire Aragones,
although it fined him 3,000 euros, a punishment which
many felt was too lenient. Denying he was a racist,
Aragones explained that his comment about Henry was an
attempt to motivate forward Jose Antonio Reyes, and he
received important backing from several black players he
had coached previously. In February, 2007, Aragones won a
legal appeal against the Spanish Committee for Sporting
Disciplines ruling that his behaviour could have fostered
"violent, racist or xenophobic acts." Spanish media also
often complained about his grouchy demeanour and had
regularly called for his dismissal during the two years
before the teams triumph. There was another uproar toward
the end of 2006 when he dropped the national teams all-
time leading scorer and captain, Real Madrids Raul
Gonzalez, arguing that he was past his prime. It proved a
masterstroke. The team embarked on a 22-game unbeaten run
which culminated with the 2008 title, making Aragones the
oldest coach to win a European Championship title.
Despite the victory, the Spanish federation made no
attempt to persuade him to extend his contract and five
days later he moved abroad for the first time to take
charge of Turkish club Fenerbahce, a couple of weeks
before his 70th birthday. "Im leaving because there wasnt
more done for me to stay," Aragones said at the time. His
playing career began 43 years earlier, when Aragones
joined Atletico Madrid. He scored 123 times in 265 games
for the team -- the second highest in its history -- and
helped the club win three Spanish league titles and two
Copa del Reys. It also reached the 1974 European Cup
final, where it lost to Bayern Munich in a replay.
Aragones, nicknamed "The Sage of Hortaleza" in reference
to the Madrid suburb of his birth, was then appointed as
Atletico coach and led the team to the 1975 World Club
Championship, the 1976 Copa del Rey and the 1977 league
title. He coached Atletico on a total of five occasions
and he had two spells each at Mallorca and Real Betis. He
was also in charge of Barcelona, Espanyol, Sevilla,
Valencia and Oviedo in a career total of 757 games, a
Spanish league record. Aragones is survived by his wife
Pepa, five children and 11 grandchildren.
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