Netherlands

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has announced plans to build a 45,000-seat, #65 million ($96 million) international soccer stadium in southwest Dublin.

Dutch International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Anton Geesink has said he was innocent of any wrongdoing and slammed Dutch media for turning public opinion against him.

Organiser of soccer?s Euro 2000 championships has revealed preparations are on schedule and that stadiums would be ready a year in advance of the kick-off.

Eurocard-MasterCard has confirmed it has signed up as an official sponsor for soccer's Euro 2000 tournament.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has strongly denied corruption claims of a cash-for-votes scandal made in a sensational new book.

The group of investors that won the bidding war to buy SkyDome Corp., home of baseball's Toronto Blue Jays, is having to dig deeper into their own pockets to pay the $80-million price tag.

A year before the Euro 2000 soccer championships, organisers received a possible taste of things to come as hooligans linked to Rotterdam's Feyenoord fought with police and wrecked the centre of their own city.

The European Commission is to examine the ticketing arrangements for the Euro 2000 soccer championship finals for compatibility with EU competition rules.

The organisers of next year's European soccer championship have said some matches scheduled for the Amsterdam Arena could be moved to other venues in a continuing row over seating arrangements.

SportsLine, the US internet sports information service, which runs web-site such as CBS SportsLine, soccernet and Golfweb, is to develop a $50milion European subsidiary in partnership with Intel, MediaOne and Reuters.

Electronic giants Philips has renewed its sponsorship of soccer's Euro 2000 tournament.

The Dutch are hurrying through a new law which would give police powers to separate groups of potential trouble-makers at major events in time for the 2000 European soccer championship finals.

Dutch soccer side Ajax Amsterdam has taken a 51 percent stake in Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields Sporting Club Ltd.

Seven candidates are in the running for one of tennis' key jobs, as the International Tennis Federation votes for a new president next week.

Fines for red and yellow cards at next year's European soccer championships will be given to young victims of land mines, the tournament's director said recently.

The Spanish government has given the go ahead for Spanish football to follow major European clubs like Lazio, Ajax Amsterdam and Manchester United by floating on the stock market.