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Sept. 7 soccer chat with Martin Rogers (Yahoo! Sports)

Wayne Rooney’s personal issues will affect the England forward before the team’s European Championship qualifier against Switzerland on Tuesday, Ottmar Hitzfeld said Monday. However, the Switzerland coach said that England counterpart Fabio Capello should pick Rooney to play despite lurid newspaper allegations about his private life.

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Hitzfeld says personal issues will affect Rooney (AP)

Diego Maradona wants to celebrate his 50th birthday next month by playing in a game with his old Napoli teammates in the San Paolo stadium. Maradona told Monday’s Gazzetta dello Sport that “I’ve had everything in life: a family that I adore, a brilliant career, and now thank god I don’t need anything, not even money.

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Maradona eyes birthday game in Naples (AP)

Bob Bradley has agreed to a contract extension Monday that will see him remain coach of the U.S. football team until after the 2014 World Cup. U.S

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US Soccer signs Bradley to four-year extension (AP)

Government officials say South America’s biggest city will likely have two stadiums ready to host World Cup matches in 2014. The club team Corinthians is planning to build a stadium that could host the tournament’s opener, and Sao Paulo mayor Gilberto Kassab said Monday that Palmeiras’ facility could also host matches after its renovation is complete.

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2 Sao Paulo stadiums could host 2014 WCup matches (AP)

Sevilla midfielder Luca Cigarini received his first Italy callup on Monday after the injured Claudio Marchisio pulled out of the squad to face Estonia and the Faroe Islands in Euro 2012 qualifiers.

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Cigarini replaces Marchisio in Italy squad (Reuters)

Francisco Varallo, remaining survivor of the first World Cup final in 1930, has died at the age of 100, Argentine media reported on Monday.

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Last survivor of first World Cup final dies at 100 (Reuters)

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo will be out of action for around three weeks with a bruised right ankle, the Spanish club said on their website (www.realmadrid.com) on Monday.

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Real’s Ronaldo out for three weeks with ankle injury (Reuters)

Italy’s Napoli have signed Argentine midfielder Jose Ernesto Sosa from Bayern Munich, the German champions said on Monday.

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Argentine Sosa joins Napoli from Bayern Munich (Reuters)

Former Juventus and AC Milan coach Alberto Zaccheroni was appointed to lead Japan’s national football team on Monday. The Japan Football Association has made Zaccheroni the first Italian and the sixth foreigner to coach Japan. The 57-year-old Zaccheroni takes over from Takeshi Okada, who stepped down after taking Japan to the round of 16 at the World Cup in South Africa.

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Italy’s Zaccheroni appointed Japan coach (AP)