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EURO 2004 BRIEFS

REUTERS, Santo Tirso
France defender Lilian Thuram may play the role he has always wanted as he looks forward to winning his 100th cap on Sunday against England.
"We don't know anything yet. But my idea is that I'm going to play in central defence," Thuram said. "It's good."
The Juventus player, who was first asked to play right back by France coach Aime Jacquet and kept there by Roger Lemerre, has recently played in the sweeper position he has long coveted.
"I've been asking for it for about ten years," said the 32-year-old. "And I was heard eventually. The central defence has always been my favourite position on the field.
"But I never complained about anything. I consider myself lucky to still be here, to have been able to play at the international level for so long."
TERRY ALL BUT OUT
AFP, Lisbon
John Terry's chances of playing for England in the Euro 2004 opener against France on Sunday appeared to have disappeared on Friday after the Chelsea centre-back missed a deadline to return to full training.
Terry, 23, only took part in the first 20 minutes of England's hourlong workout before leaving his teammates to continue rehabilitation work on his injured hamstring.
England coach Sven Goran Eriksson said he would be highly unlikely to pick Terry unless he was back in full training on Friday 48 hours ahead of the match in the Stadium of Light.
EURO 2004 BRIEFS
Eriksson has said he would be reluctant to risk Terry aggravating the injury and missing the other two group games against Switzerland and Croatia.
His place is likely to go to Jamie Carragher or Ledley King.
CROATIA TO MISS
PLETIKOSA
REUTERS, Zagreb
Croatian first choice goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa will miss the Euro 2004 games against Switzerland and France due to a leg muscle injury, Croatian media reported on
Friday.
Pletikosa underwent a medical check-up in a Lisbon hospital on Thursday evening which showed that he suffered a muscle rupture in his right leg during a training session. The injury may lead to his missing the whole tournament.
"A muscle is not strained, it is a rupture, " the Croatian team spokesman Goran Rotim told the Jutarnji list daily.
Tomislav Butina is Pletikosa's most likely replacement.
VAN DER SAR DOUBTFUL
AFP, Albufeira
Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is a doubt for the Netherlands' opening Euro 2004 match against Germany on Tuesday after injuring his finger in training.
Fulham custodian Van der Sar, 33, was forced to pull out of training here Friday after damaging a finger in his right hand.
Better news for the 1988 champions came in the form of AC Milan midfielder Clarence Seedorf who participated in training for the first time since sustaining a thigh injury.
A BLOW FOR GROENKJAER
AND DENMARK
AFP, Copenhagen
Denmark's Euro 2004 preparations have been badly hit with the news that the mother of Chelsea star Jesper Groenkjaer has died of cancer.
The 26-year-old winger had stayed behind in Denmark to be at her side as she fought the illness, but she died on Thursday according to the Danish press.
Team manager Morten Olsen had been fully supportive of Gronkjaer's decision not to travel with the rest of the Danish squad to Portugal ahead of their opening game against Italy on Monday in Guimaraes.
The player's immediate plans for the rest of the tournament were not known, but he was not expected to be named in the side to take on the Italians.
"There are things more important in life than football, especially the family," Olsen said.