71.   But the lenient penalty sparked outrage as professional players threatened to boycott.

72.   But the Sydney Games will mark the first time professional players are eligible.

73.   Contracts for professional players will be rewritten with provisions by soccer associations to penalize errant players.

74.   Double fault records are not kept, but no one among even the oldest observers could recall a professional player who served worse in a match.

75.   Earlier this month, Lyngby FC was reduced to amateur status after it was forced to shed its professional players in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy.

76.   He said many professional players are now going into Olympic competition and finding that the rules are different.

77.   He is convinced that the rival team suspected that Basiran was a professional player hired by Tugu Asri.

78.   He is the first professional player to be convicted following the investigation in the Malaysian Premier League.

79.   Italian professional players on Tuesday voiced their opposition to the use of more players from countries outside the EU bloc which is being sought by Italian first division clubs.

80.   Italian fans are organizing in different ways to survive a weekend without soccer in the face of an unprecedented strike of professional players.