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Kazakhstan would be welcomed as the 52nd member association of UEFA if they went ahead with plans to quit the Asian confederation, officials said on Wednesday.

MTG, the Scandinavian media company, has bought 17% of the share capital of Stockholm-based soccer club Djurgaarden, worth SKr7m ($781,000), according to news sources.

Sweden?s answer to Rupert Murdoch, Jan Stenbeck, has bought a 17 per cent stake in soccer team Djurgarden. Stenbeck's company, Modern Times Group (MTG), owns several media companies, including the free commuter newspaper Metro which was introduced in the UK two years ago.

Only clubs which can prove they are financially stable and soundly managed will be allowed to compete in fixtures organised by UEFA from the 2003-04 season, European soccer's governing body has announced.

The official web site of the 2001 Masters Tournament, created by Augusta National and IBM, registered 49.8 million page views by nearly 1.1 million unique users during the event period, April 2-8.

European Union sports ministers aim to give Europe the leading role in the fight against drugs in sport with a funding proposal for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

The EURO 2000 football championships were watched by a cumulative audience of seven billion people, a new survey reveals.

Representatives from FIFA, UEFA, Europe's leading clubs and the players' union met on Tuesday to discuss proposed changes to soccer's transfer system but were unable to reach any agreement.

FIFA and UEFA are confident of reaching agreement on new player transfer rules within 10 days.

There is still no date for a European summit involving the European Commission and the presidents of FIFA and UEFA aimed at helping break the deadlock over the player transfer system.

The European Commission has offered to meet the presidents of UEFA and FIFA for talks to break the deadlock over a new soccer transfer system.

Nordic insurance company "if?" is to replace Scania as title sponsor of the Swedish tennis tournament the Stockholm Open.

The British Broadcasting Corporation?s Outside Broadcasts Special Facilities team is to install the world's first slalom gate cameras for a new extreme sports event in Stockholm.

An agreement to build a multifunctional motor sport complex in Moscow, part of which will be a Formula 1 track, has been approved by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and president of the British company TWR Group Tom Walkinshaw.

Battery firm Energizer has signed a deal to become an international partner of the European Athletic Association Programme of Championship events 2000-2003.