Football: Gremio and Flamengo draw in Copa Brasil
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Your support makes all the difference.Gremio and Flamengo played out a drab, foul-ridden 0-0 draw in the first leg of the Copa Brasil final on Tuesday. The result, in Gremio's stadium in the southern city of Porto Alegre, slightly favoured Flamengo who will play today's second leg at home in Rio de Janeiro.
Yugoslav striker Miladin Becanovic has joined Marseille from Lille on a three-year contract, a Lille official said yesterday. Becanovic scored 13 goals this season but failed to save Lille from relegation to the French Second Division.
Claiming foreigners are robbing them of their jobs, Spanish players have set a 30 June deadline for officials to lower the number of non-European Union players in the Spanish league. Although the player's union did not issue a strike call, a walk-out has been discussed in the past.
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