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Wales football news - April 2003.


Azerbaijan hope. With the president of the AFFA offering to resign discussions in Baku are ongoing with FAW receiving daily reports from the Azeri capital. Next week FAW officials will be discussing the matter with their counterparts from the Serbian Football Association. Portugal 2004 tickets With regards to the "Follow My Team" Euro 2004 tickets, the tickets are separate to the 20% each of the match stadium capacity, which will be offered to the competing nations. Wednesday, April 30th 2003.

Azerbaijan Ban? The Euro 2004 qualifying campaign has been thrown into turmoil after FIFA banned Azerbaijan representative teams playing international matches. UEFA, though, has said it is too early to decide what impact FIFA's ban will have on the Group Nine results. "We will confirm that UEFA will adhere to FIFA's decision," said a UEFA spokesperson. But we'll have to take a closer look at what it means for the group, for the matches ahead, and those already played involving Azerbaijan." The FAW will give their reaction tomorrow. Azerbaijan's next scheduled match is against Serbia & Montenegro on 11 June. Tuesday, April 15th 2003.

Defence the key. Mark Hughes has stressed that despite the talk of their forward talent, the success over the past eighteen months has also been based around their defensive record. "For three years we have put in hard work to defend as a team, to take up certain positions when the opposition have the ball in different areas of the field," said Hughes. “The fruits of that hard work are being brought home in this campaign and everyone thinks it has just happened overnight. But I can assure you it hasn't. It is down to the discipline and hard work, sometimes tedious work, we have put into training since I took over as manager.” Friday, April 4th 2003.