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Schalke took a giant stride towards the final four of the Champions League with a 5-2 drubbing of Internazionale in a highly entertaining first leg of their quarter-final clash in Milan.

Inter, who were hoping for a positive response to a 3-0 defeat to city rivals Milan in Serie A at the weekend, were simply blown away by three second half goals at the Giuseppe Meazza as Schalke effectively ended the Italian side's reign as European champions.

A brace from Brazilian striker Edu, strikes from Joel Matip and Raul and an Andrea Ranocchia own-goal did the damage for Schalke, who twice cancelled out Inter goals - by Dejan Stankovic and Diego Milito.

Inter ended the night with 10 men following Cristian Chivu's second dismissal in a week and, barring a remarkable turnaround in a fortnight in Gelsenkirchen, it will be Schalke who go on to play wither Manchester United or Chelsea in the semi-finals,

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Sporting have pulled off the shock of the season when they ended Madrid and Mourinho's proud home record,

A Miguel de las Cuevas goal 12 minutes from time ended Real Madrid's perfect home record this season, and in the process brought Jose Mourinho's 150-game undefeated home run crashing to an end as Sporting Gijon stunned Los Blancos 1-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Once the action got underway, it was business as usual and Ricardo Carvalho had the ball in the back of the net after just two minutes when he prodded home Esteban Granero’s freekick, but it was disallowed as the ball had floated out of play behind the goal when Raul Albiol attempted to cushion it back,

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The accident occurred on the A41 road in Hendon, north west London, not far from the club's training ground.

"Police were called at 9.53 a.m. this morning to reports of a collision between two cars on the A41," a spokesman for London's Metropolitan Police said.

"No one required hospital treatment. Just a prang."

It has been confirmed that Fabregas did not suffer any serious injury, according to a police source.

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The derby match between Italian giants Inter Milan and AC Milan was a real cracker. AC Milan powered by Van Bommel in the midfield cut through Inter many times and came away 3-0 winners. However the story may have been slightly different if Samuel Eto had converted a clean chance. Unlike the strong striker he blew away a horrific chance. Watch the miss!,

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Nigerian midfielder John Obi Mikel's days at Chelsea appears to be coming to an end as he has been linked with a move to German Bundesliga outfit Hamburg.

Frank Arnesen, Chelsea's sporting director, will be joining the German side in June and reports in the German media suggests that Mikel is among a shortlist of players the Dane intends to lure to Hamburg.

While Germany's biggest sports tabloid, Bild, reported that Arnesen is chasing after Mikel and young Holland defender Jeffrey Bruma, a report on a German based site (www.hamburgerabendblatt.de) stated that the former Denmark international is also keen on securing the services of Salomon Kalou and Brazilian defender Alex,

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Here's a video of Van Persie's 5 year old son Shaqueel scoring against the Arsenal and Holland striker,
Video link: http://soccerfiesta..com/2011/03/video-van-persies-5-year-old-son-scores.html

Brazilian club Sao Paulo has a goalkeeper who scores more than some strikers have ever done in their entire career. Rogerio Ceni now has 100 goals to his name.

Watch the video of his 100th career goal against Corinthians over the weekend.

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Birmingham City striker Obafemi Martins is expected to make a return to the Super Eagles for today’s international friendly against the Harambee Stars of Kenya.

Martins was surprisingly missing from the Super Eagles side in last Sunday’s 4-0 drubbing of Ethiopia in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match at the National Stadium in Abuja after he was declared unfit by the team’s medical crew,

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The Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) at the weekend said it is committed to facilitating the process that would lead to the creation of over 160,000 new jobs in four critical sectors of the country’s economy by 2015.

Managing Director/Chief Executive of the bank, Roberts Orya, said export-oriented diversification investments programmes is designed to help develop the potentials in the manufacturing, agriculture, solid minerals and services sectors of the economy under its MASS agenda.

The 18-month revival agenda, instituted under the bank’s corporate transformation project to address its challenges and articulate strategies that would facilitate its emergence as Africa’s premier export development bank, is aimed at focus attention on the development of certain markets, to see it emerge as a major contributor to non-oil exports in the continent.

“We are committed to not only build a world class institution which imbibes best-in-class corporate governance and risk management practices, but also become a relevant player in the export market by significantly influencing government trade policies as well as build a profitable institution with a robust balance sheet size and a highly skilled and motivated workforce,” Mr. Orya said.

Since last year, about N3.943billion was disbursed under the bank’s non-oil exports finance programme targeted at generating over 3,500 direct jobs as well as generate about $148.4million in foreign exchange earnings annually, while about $70million was secured to facilitate its programme to attract foreign investment capital for non-oil exports,

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