41.   Ajax was scheduled to play Hong Kong league champion Instant Dict in the main match in the four-team competition.

42.   Alessandro Del Piero and Zinedine Zidane produced sparkling play and goals as teammates with league champion Juventus of Turin this year.

43.   Although still an invitational event, it was usually between the FA Cup winners and the league champion.

44.   Anthony Bonner, a former guard of New York Knicks, has joined Italian league champion Buckler Bologna to substitute for injured American star Orlando Woolridge.

45.   Argentine defender Leandro Damian Cufre on Wednesday signed a five-year contract with Italian league champion U.S. Roma.

46.   Aston Villa, the defending league cup champion, has told Bosnich that his first team place is safe for now.

47.   Austrian soccer league champion FC Tirol was demoted Thursday from the premier league because of financial problems and will play the next season in the lowly third division.

48.   Bordeaux faces a struggling Nantes and Monaco takes on Auxerre in a battle between the league champions of the last two years.

49.   Besides Real Madrid, Atheltic de Bilbao is another team whose hopes for making a run at league champion have been largely squashed.

50.   Between goals the defending Italian league champion created a string of scoring chances wasted by Inzaghi, Zidane and by Uruguayan Daniel Fonseca.