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CUP CORNER

AFP, Paris
French defender Christian Karembeu is out of the World Cup finals after tearing a groin muscle last weekend, he told L'Equipe newspaper on Friday.
French national coach Roger Lemerre discussed the injury with the 31-year-old and instead decided to take Bayern Munich defender Willy Sagnol to the finals in South Korea and Japan, the report said.
"I'm out," said Karembeu. "I accept the decision of the coach. We had a long discussion about it and he made another choice.
"Now I'm going to get treatment in order to be ready in case they need me," he said.
The former Nantes, Sampdoria, Real Madrid and Middlesbrough player was injured in his current side Olympiakos' defeat by AEK Athens in the Greek Cup final on Sunday.
Karembeu was a member of the French squad which won the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Championships.
LAST SPOT FOR ROMARIO?
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil's 1994 World Cup winning hero Romario's dreams of making it to this year's finals were kept alive Thursday when national coach Luiz Scolari revealed he had just one vacancy left in his final squad.
Scolari has tried to avoid giving in to enormous pressure at including the 36-year-old former Barcelona star but according to a correspondent from the normally well-informed newspaper 'O Globo' Romario's name will be on the final squad list when it is named next Monday.
"Of the 23 players who will be going to the finals there just remains one doubt," Scolari said.
Romario, who has had a successful season with Vasco da Gama, had launched an emotional appeal in April to be included in the squad but Scolari was reluctant to select him as he regards him as being a disruptive influence in the dressing room.
However the debate over his inclusion reached such levels that even Brazilian president Fernando Cardoso declared the striker should be selected.
LEMERRE EXTENDS CONTRACT
Paris
French national coach Roger Lemerre has prolonged his contract until 2004, the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Claude Simonet announced on Friday.
Lemerre, who took over from Aime Jacquet after France won the World Cup in 1998, is preparing his squad for the defence of their world crown in South Korea and Japan later this month.He will now stay on at least until the 2004 European Championships, at which France will also be defending their title.
"We wanted to take this decision before the World Cup to calm the situation," said Simonet.
URUGUAY-THAILAND OFF
Bangkok
Two-time World Cup champions Uruguay have scrapped their planned pre-tournament football friendly with Thailand due to financial reasons, a sports official here said Friday.
"Uruguay has cancelled the trip to Thailand due to the expensive cost," the official from the Thai Football Association said, without elaborating.
Bangkok had been looking forward to hosting the South Americans in a match on May 18, less than two weeks before the finals kick off in Seoul.
Uruguay, which won the inaugural tournament in 1930 on home soil and again in 1950, have not reached the finals of the World Cup since 1990.
Thailand, currently ranked 60th in the world by FIFA, are a perennial Southeast Asian power but have never made it to the finals.
Uruguay are in Group A with current champions France, Denmark and Senegal.