Azerbaijan's football team beat Luxembourg 2:1 in a friendly last night.
Farid Guliyev opened the scoring in the 28th minute with his debut goal for Azerbaijan.

Russia's Igor Andreev and Somdev Devvarman of India will play the opening rubber in the Davis Cup World Group first round clash between the countries here on Friday.
The hosts hopes were setback earlier this week when their top player Nikolay Davydenko, sixth in the world, was ruled out of the clash with a wrist injury. He was replaced by Andreev, who is currently 38th in the ATP rankings.

Lance Armstrong is feeling the physical demands of his second year back in cycling.
The 38-year-old American says he "suffered a little bit" Wednesday at the start of the Tour of Murcia, his first race in five weeks.

Argentina's larger-than-life coach Diego Maradona thinks that his players can win the World Cup if they show the form that saw them beat fellow favourites Germany 1-0.
"I am very happy because my players were so committed. They fulfilled my expectations. After 24 years Argentina needs the title, and playing at this standard we can do it," Maradona said after Wednesday's match.

Fabio Capello has never given the impression that he regards Peter Crouch as anything more than an impact substitute but the Italian appears to be warming to Tottenham's beanpole striker.
Crouch's second-half double was instrumental in England coming from behind to beat African champions Egypt 3-1 at Wembley on Wednesday evening and the 6' 7" (2.0m) forward may just have put himself in pole position to be Wayne Rooney's partner in attack when Capello's men start their World Cup campaign against the United States, in Rustenburg on June 12. Related article: Crouch shows good form

Ana Ivanovic is heading back to Madison Square Garden.
The former No. 1-ranked player will play in the Billie Jean King Cup in New York on March 1. She also played in the one-night exhibition event last year.
"I feel honoured to have the opportunity to come back to New York," Ivanovic said on a conference call from San Diego where she is preparing for next month's Indian Wells tournament in California.
"It's definitely an exciting city to play in," she said. "The crowd is amazing. I remember it last year, it was exciting."

Reigning MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi set the fastest pace of the pre-season testing on Thursday in Malaysia.
The Italian set a lap time of 2min 1.068 seconds, half a second slower than his best time of 2min 0.518sec set last year when he clinched his seventh MotoGP championship title last year at the Sepang International Circuit.

Barcha pep talk for Ibrahimovich
FC Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola was pleased to see Zlatan Ibrahimovich silence his critics after the striker helped the UEFA Champions League holders to a first knockout round first-leg draw away to VfB Stuttgart.

Top-seeded Russian Maria Sharapova cruised into the quarter-finals of the WTA Tour event here, crushing American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-1, 6-1.
The Russian remained on course for a clash with second-seeded American Melanie Oudin, who beat compatriot Lilia Osterloh 6-2, 6-1.

Yevgeny Plushenko has vowed to prove he is the man among a field of triple-jumping boys when he defends his Olympic men's title on Thursday in the Pacific Coliseum.
The 27-year-old takes a slim lead on reigning world champion Evan Lysacek and Japan's Daisuke Takahashi into the free skating final after the short programme with just 0.60 separating the top three. And after impressing with his jumping skills the veteran Russian goaded his rivals for not attempting the quadruple jump, and sticking to triple jumps which he was doing as an 11 year old. "Without a quad it's not men's figure skating," said the three-time world champion.
"I will do the quad in any case. I believe that the quad is the future of figure skating. The quad is necessary, that is my opinion.
"Some people might say that we should do other things, but in my opinion not doing the quad will be going backwards in time.
"In the '80s, skaters did doubles, then we started doing triples, then triple Axels, then the quad. I think for the future we need the quad Salchow, quad flip, quad Lutz."
"Of course we need transitions and steps - harder and harder.