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KUYT IS OPTIMISTIC

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Former Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt has said that his team Fenerbahce need to be extremely cautious ahead of the Champions league match against Salzburg. This is the return leg of the Champions league qualifying round, and Fenerbahce are very close to sealing a place in the final qualifying round. They are likely to face top quality opposition in the next round, but that does not mean that this third qualifying round will be easy according to Kuyt. He has said that he has been in this position before at Liverpool where the club have had to go through qualifying rounds in order to reach the group stages of the Champions league.

He says that the Champions league is one of the strongest competitions in the world, and all the teams taking part in it are extremely strong. Hence, he has urged against any complacency from the Turkish club ahead of the match. Kuyt has been playing for Fenerbahce moving to the club last season for € 1 million. Prior to that, he played for several years at Liverpool since arriving at Anfield in 2006. The Carling cup remains as one of the major trophies won by the Dutch striker, who is also capable of playing on the wings as well.

“We are all excited about the game but these type of matches are never easy. This is the Champions league and anything can happen, I have experienced similar situations many times whilst playing for Liverpool,” said the striker. “With the help of our supporters we aim to qualify for the next round. “Getting results in friendlies is completely different to playing in the Champions League, Salzburg have an advantage in this regard as the Austrian league is already underway,” said Fenerbahce manager Ersun Yanal ahead of the match with Salzburg.

Germany indulged in large scale doping

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The footballers for West Germany who played against England in the nation’s only successful FIFA World Cup campaign could have been injected with performance enhancing drugs, a recent report has revealed.

A report that has been prepared by researchers in Germany have attributed the government with continuing with a large scale doping scandal that transcended all sports and also percolated to football and this has brought down a huge cloud on the successful Germany World Cup winning team of 1974 under the leadership of Franz Beckenbauer as well.

The reports were leaked by a German publication of a long research into state financed doping in the country. According to the leaked report attributed to the unpublished report, the doping scandal may have kicked off under state aid after the Second World War and such was the insistence of the government to be better than their East German counterparts that they spent millions of dollars to fund the project.

According to the report, an interior minister of the country at that time had stated that the athletes of Germany should have the same conditions as well as services as the East German bloc and this led to a competition with the bitter rivals that led to the doping experiments.

The report also stated that amphetamines were used on a large scale by the soldiers of the country in the Second World War and the footballers in Germany continued the trend starting from the 1950s well into the 1980s.

However, it has also been claimed that the German players could also have administered the drugs on themselves accidentally through the use of a decongestant for colds that was used on a large scale during that time. England defeated the team 4-2 in the final of the 1966 World Cup on home soil.