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Turkey's Trabzonspor fired coach Sebastiao Lazaroni on Thursday. In a message posted on the team's website, president Nuri Albayrak said Trabzonspor had terminated the former Brazil coach's contract and was appointing Ziya Dogan, ``who knows Trabzonspor well.'' Dogan coached Trabzonspor four years ago before leaving in a dispute with the club's previous management. The Black Sea side has won only one of its four league games this season. Lazaroni, who ...

ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) _ FIFA began a two-day meeting Monday to decide upon action over the brawl that occurred at the end of a World Cup playoff between Turkey and Switzerland last November. The five-member disciplinary committee reviewed the accounts of the six participants who have been at the centre of the investigation into the fight after the Nov. 16 match in Istanbul, Turkey. They are Turkey players Alpay Ozalan, ...