81.   Defending champion Panathinaikos Athens played to a scoreless game against OFI in Crete Wednesday to take a lead in the first division soccer league.

82.   Defending champion Olympiakos Piraeus were held to an embarrassing scoreless draw by Apollon Athens at home Monday, but retained its lead in Greek first division soccer league.

83.   Eleven games into its debut Serie A campaign, Chievo has shown everyone that it belongs in the premier Italian soccer league.

84.   Earlier he had scored a goal, his sixth this year in the Italian first-division soccer league.

85.   European soccer leagues escalated their confrontation with FIFA on Tuesday, saying they would refuse to release players for the Confederation Cup tournament in January.

86.   FIFA had previously asked the Romanian soccer league to investigate Dragomir following an official complaint from the New York-based Anti-Defamation League.

87.   Fifteen years ago, it was just a casual village squad struggling at the bottom of the lowest Czech soccer league.

88.   Following a series of poor performances in the first division Greek soccer league, PAOK Salonica Tuesday dismissed their Swedish Coach, Gunder Bengtsson.

89.   Following word of the first positive result, Guardiola was suspended by the disciplinary commission of the Italian soccer league pending the followup analysis.

90.   Fireworks and foreign atmosphere kicked off the latest effort to create a major outdoor pro soccer league in the United States.