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This is an archive article published on May 14, 2002

Prosinecki to hang up boots after WC

Croatia’s veteran playmaker Robert Prosinecki will retire from international football after the World Cup. "It is time to start buildin...

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Croatia’s veteran playmaker Robert Prosinecki will retire from international football after the World Cup. “It is time to start building a new team, so I plan to playmy last international game in Japan or South Korea,” the 33-year old former Real Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla player told the Vecernji List newspaper on Monday. “I hope Croatia will make a memorable result there, with which I would retire my old international shirt,” Prosinecki told the daily shortly before coach Mirko Jozic’s squad left for a week of training in the Austrian Alps.

“I’ve had a short break after an exhausting season and when I raise my fitness in the next 20 days there will be no problems. I want to prepare in the best possible way so I can give my best (at the World Cup),” he said. The inspirational mid-fielder, who quit English first division side Portsmouth and is negotiating a contract in Japan, played for Yugoslavia in 1990 and for Croatia at the 1998 World Cup in France, where they ended a surprising third.

Dyer threatens legal action over tackle

LONDON: Newcastle United’s Kieron Dyer is considering taking legal action against Tahar El-Khalej after a tackle by Southampton’s Moroccan defender almost certainly ruled the England mid-fielder out of the forthcoming World Cup. “We have considered legal action, certainly against the player, and possibly his club,” Dyer’s agent Jonathan Barnett was quoted as saying in the Daily Express newspaper on Monday.

Injured Swedish keeper may miss the trip

STOCKHOLM: Sweden second-choice goalkeeper Magnus Kihlstedt could miss the World Cup after hurting his thigh in FC Copenhagen’s 1-1 draw against Brondby in the Danish superleague on Sunday. “This will probably take a month to heal and then I’ll miss the World Cup,” Kihlstedt said on the Swedish public television website. Coventry goalkeeper Magnus Hedman will be Sweden’s first choice at the World Cup.

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