Thursday, March 13, 2008
England will have a record four teams in the March 14 Champions League quarterfinal draw after liverpool eliminated Inter Milan to join Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United.
Spain's Barcelona, Italy's Roma, Schalke of Germany and Turkey's Fenerbahce will contest European soccer's elite club competition with the English Premier League's to four. Since the maximum number of teams from one country rose to four in the 1999-2000 Champions League , no nation had previously seen all its representatives reach the last eight. "It shows the quality of the Premier League and especially the quality of the top four," Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez told the club's Web site.
It also demonstrate the financial muscle of a league that's been boosted by record broadcasting contracts over the past decade. The English quartet were all ranked in the top eight of a list of the highest-earning soccer clubs compiled by Deloitte & Touche LLP for the 2006-2007 season. Only Barcelona and Roma of the other quaterfinalists ranked in the top 10.
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