Six players including Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo were shortlisted on Thursday for FIFA'S inaugural Gillette Best Young Player Award at the World Cup.
Argentina will face a stronger, fitter and hungrier Germany when they meet for the third time in 18 months.
Also, reserve goalkeeper Oliver Kahn would not train with the rest of the team.
Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has plotted England's downfall in their last two tournaments
Germany's captain has recovered from a minor foot injury and is fit to play in the World Cup quarter-final, coach Juergen Klinsmann said.
Ecuador's World Cup ended because of a single moment of brilliance by the England captain, said Ecuador coach Luis Fernando Suarez.
David Beckham obliged Wayne Rooney and Real Madrid teammate Roberto Carlos by scoring off a free kick
England midfielder Michael Carrick is looking forward to the biggest game of his career after being told he will play against Ecuador in Sunday's World Cup second round.
England have nearly always won games against South American countires under Sven-Goran Eriksson
"There were no hooligans, just drunk people," a spokesman for the city's police said.
Injured striker Michael Owen said on Thursday he does not expect to play football again in 2006 - but is urging his England team mates to bring him back a World Cup winner's medal.
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Henrik Larsson's last-minute goal gave the Swedes a 2-2 draw and second place in Group B, behind England.
Goals from Peter Crouch and Steven Gerrard gave England a 2-0 victory over Trinidad & Tobago in their second Group B match.
Portugal's captain said he expects a difficult game because it will be one of the last chances for Iran to try to get through to the next round.
The government has notified a list of 57 countries in Africa and South America that would get duty benefits under the Focus Market scheme, announced in the Foreign Trade Policy early this year, to boost exports.
Britain's Andy Murray and Russia's Mikhail Youzhny became the latest seeds to fall in the Kremlin Cup when they lost to lower-ranked opponents in the second round on Thursday.
In the US, recession started in December 2007, and will last at least until December 2009 - the longest and deepest US recession since World War II, with the cumulative fall in GDP possibly exceeding 5 per cent. The recession in other advanced economies (the euro zone, United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand) started in the second quarter of 2008, before the financial turmoil in September and October further aggravated the credit crunch.
Government's refusal to allow Oil and Natural Gas Corporation to acquire oilfields in Nigeria and Ecuador has cost the country 23 million tonnes per annum of oil production, a top official said on Friday.
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