COLOGNE, Germany -- Germany sealed a spot at next years World Cup with an assured 3-0 win over Ireland on Friday.
Mike Singletary Jersey . Sami Khedira opened the scoring with a deflected shot in the 12th minute, Andre Schuerrle scored in the 58th after Toni Kroos scooped the ball over the Irish defence, and Mesut Ozil completed the scoring on his 50th appearance in injury time. The hosts should have scored more but found Irish goalkeeper David Forde in excellent form. Sweden finished second with a game to spare in Group C after Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored late for a 2-1 win over Austria in Stockholm. Austria finished the game with 10 men. Earlier, the Faeroe Islands drew 1-1 at home against Kazakhstan in a game that had no bearing on qualifying.
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Jay Cutler Orange Jersey . Pro Bowl centre Maurkice Pouncey ripped up his right knee and linebacker Larry Foote ruptured his biceps during Pittsburghs 16-9 home loss to Tennessee, likely sidelining both players for the rest of the season.QUEBEC - Defending Olympic gold medallist Jasey-Jay Anderson and 2010 Olympians Dominique Maltais and Caroline Calve are among 19 athletes added to Canadas Olympic snowboard team. Anderson, from Mont-Tremblant, Que., claimed gold in the mens parallel giant slalom at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and is a four-time world champion. Maltais, from Petite-Riviere-St-Francois, Que., won bronze in snowboardcross at the 2006 Turin Games and silver at the 2013 world championships. Shell be looking to rebound for a disappointing Olympics in 2010 where she failed to qualify forr the snowboardcross final.
Jay Cutler Blue Jersey. Calve, from Aylmer, Que., became the first Canadian to win a womens parallel giant slalom world cup event in 2011 at Carezza, Italy. She recently took gold there again in December. "Going to Sochi is an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and one that I am honoured to have been chosen for," Calve said. "I have been working on perfecting my game for such a long time now and am excited to be competing against the worlds best. "It will be an honour to be representing Canada at the Olympics."
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