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`Boro in UEFA Cup semis

EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Sevilla will face Schalke, while Steaua takes on Middlesbrough in the semifinal round

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A French soccer ethics panel this week docked PSG one point after a clash over ticketing arrangements for a home game against Marseille, leaving it five points off a Champions League spot.

"It's going to be complicated, but it's at times like there when you find out if the players have character," coach Guy Lacombe said.

PSG's home form is the fourth-best in the league, but its away record is among the worst.

Armenia's footbal federation said Thursday it would not extend coach Henk Wisman's contract and would appoint a replacement to lead the team in qualifying for the 2008 European Championship.

"The football federation of Armenia refused to extend its contract with Henk Wisman, head coach of the national team," Araik Manukian, spokesman for the federation, told APs.

Wisman, of the Netherlands, took over in May 2005 and was contracted until the end of the World Cup qualifying last October, with an option to extend his term for another two years.

Wisman replaced France's Bernard Casoni and was Armenia's fourth foreign coach in three years, but Armenia lost five matches under him and finished next-to-last-last in its World Cup qualifying group.

Luis Figo fined

Inter Milan's Portugal midfielder Luis Figo was fined 5,000 euros for alleging that an Juventus official met with the referee ahead of February's league match between the teams.

Inter, which lost 2-1, was fined the same amount.

The Italian league's disciplinary commission fined Figo because he could not support his claims about the "forbidden" meeting before kickoff. Referee Gianluca Paparesta and Juventus officials both denied the meeting took place.

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