David Beckham benched as AC Milan struggles

 

 

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AC Milan Struggles

David Beckham was relegated to substitute player status as his team AC Milan struggled to a draw at Bologna.

The England star was replaced by Mancini, who was signed on loan from rival team Inter this week.

Beckham went back into the game with 11 minutes left.  Both teams ended in a scoreless draw.

Earlier this week, AC Milan earned a draw with struggling Livorno, a team that it should have beaten.

AC Milan has had its disctractions recently.  Ronaldinho denied he had held a three-night party in the lead-up to the Inter game.  Additionally, team owner Silvio Berlusconi said he was surprised at the loan signing of Mancini.  Worse, he stated that he disagreed with the move.

Related:  Article on Enzo Francescoli and Zinedine Zidane in Spain

In other soccer news, 400,000 FIFA tickets will go on sale on Tuesday, February 9th.

Eleven matches out of the 64 FIFA World Cup matches will not be available at this stage. The Matches are: (match numbers: 5: ENG v USA, 23: ENG v ALG, 37: SVN – ENG, 45: POR - BRA, 54: Round of 16 at Ellis Park, Johannesburg, 56: Round of 16 at Cape Town, 59: Quarter Final at Cape Town, 60: Quarter Final at Ellis Park, Johannesburg, 61: Semi Final at Cape Town, 62: Semi Final at Durban and 64: Final at Soccer City, Johannesburg).

However, tickets for all matches in Mangaung/ Bloemfontein, Nelspruit, Polokwane and Tshwane/ Pretoria are available as well as matches at Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth (except SVN v ENG) and Rustenburg (except ENG v USA).

A few tickets could potentially still be made available for all matches at a later stage as some tickets, initially allocated to teams or commercial partners, might be returned to the general public sales process.

As an additional service, fans can now check the latest state of ticket availability, including team specific ticket series, regularly on FIFA.com as from 13h00 on Tuesday, 9 February 2010.

So far, a total of two millions tickets have been sold in the first three sales phases (including tour operators, PMA sales). This corresponds to two thirds of the total inventory.

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