Italy must forget all about the "Totti Factor" or they are in danger of coming unstuck against a confident, in-form Sweden.
Karel Brueckner says his team got the start it wanted.
Germany went down 2-0 in their final warm-up match for Euro 2004.
Germany face Hungary in a friendly, 50 years after a memorable triumph over the same opponents in the 1954 World Cup final.
Alexander Mostovoi, Russia's veteran of two World Cups and Euro 96, said the main goal of the team is to made the second round.
Russia's no.1 goalkeeper urged media and fans to give the team due respect.
Four goals from Michael Ballack helped Germany restore pride with a 7-0 demolition of Malta in a Euro 2004 warm-up.
The 27-year-old international will need little motivating for Saturday's FA Cup final against first division underdogs Millwall.
European Union is not contemplating signing free trade agreement with India in the near future and will focus on completion of contentious World Trade Organisation negotiations including agriculture and Singapore issues
Greece together with France, Germany and Romania all moved closer to a place in next year's European Championship finals.
World Cup holders Italy and European champions Greece got back on track in Euro 2008 qualifying on Wednesday, but England laboured to beat Andorra and Sweden suffered an upset in Northern Ireland.
Three-times champion Rafael Nadal pummelled fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco into a 6-1, 6-0, 6-2 submission to reach the quarter-finals of the French Open on Sunday.
The Turkish FA was fined a total of 80,000 Swiss francs after a series of violent incidents at two international matches last month.
Franz Beckenbauer predicts that Germany can go far in the Euro 2004 finals if they get through their group.
The Turkey defender said his Aston Villa contract would not have been cancelled if his recent spat with England captain David Beckham had been with any other player.\n\n\n\n
If the effort of bidding and conducting Olympics is to showcase China's rise to the world, popular indictments at the global and Tibetan levels have unnerved Beijing. For so long Tibet is considered to be the minimalist foreign policy position for China, while the Olympics indicated its bidding for global legitimacy for its policies.
The Indian champion went down to Australian professional Neil Robertson in the quarter-finals of the World Under-21 snooker championship
Gunning for the silver medal are Russia and United States who have 25.5 points each.
The Czechs are determined to give Karel Poborsky the perfect retirement gift -- a Euro 2004 winners' medal to go with his 100th international cap.
Euro 2004 has been a tournament of teamwork, humility and bravery as the smaller nations have shown that size doesn't matter in football.
The disciplinary situation at Euro 2004 after Friday's quarter-final between France and Greece.
The Netherlands will have to come up with something exceptional to beat the great all-rounders of Euro 2004.
In Group D, they are capable of beating Dutch, three-times winners Germany and rank outsiders Latvia.
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