The Team of the FA Cup comprises player of the round winners from the first qualifying round to the semi-final.
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Twelve months on Maldonado and rookie teammate Valtteri Bottas both failed to make it out of the first round of qualifying last time out in Barcelona.
Joe Scarborough, a 50-year-old self-employed electrical contractor from Charlotte, opened the first round of qualifying in the PBA50 Sun Bowl on Sunday with three games of 300, throwing 36 consecutive strikes.
David Coulthard failed to get past the first round of qualifying for the second successive race as a combination of traffic and poor tyre performance saw him settle for 17th on the grid.
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The Champions League final isn'tnot due to be played until May 25, 2013, at Wembley Stadium in London, but first-round qualifying began Tuesday just 45 days after Chelsea beat Bayern Munich in last season's final, and only two days after Spain won Euro 2012.
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There are also a host of British and Irish teams in the first qualifying round of the Uefa Cup.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina champions Siroki Brijeg were seeded for the first qualifying round draw and will be favourites to go through.
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The Chipolopolo will also face Swaziland and Eritrea in the first round of the qualifying series that start in February.
In the Uefa Cup first qualifying round, Rhyl will play against Haka of Finland while Carmarthen Town will face Norwegian side Brann.
Higginson went from the first qualifying round to within a frame of winning the title 12 months ago before losing 9-8 to Robertson.
Derry City will face former winners IFK Gothenburg in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup while Irish compatriots Drogheda face HJK Helsinki.
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Sittingbourne had been angered in the build-up to this first qualifying round local derby by Dartford boss Tony Burman's decision to rotate his squad.
Then he must prepare the club for their first qualifying round matches in the Europa League which are scheduled for 2 and 9 July.
The BBC Radio Lancashire featured match is between Bacup and Unibond Premier League side Cammell Laird, in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup.
"We must learn from the mistakes, " said Legg, whose side went out at the first qualifying round, following up a superb 1-0 away win with a 3-0 home defeat.
After being off the tour for the last 18 months, Kucova is ranked 1, 152 in the world but made the first round after coming through qualifying.
Meanwhile, Guan Tianlang's bid to make this year's British Open suffered a major setback as the 14-year-old Chinese golf prodigy fell seven shots off the lead after the first round of International Final qualifying Asia Thursday.
That next match for Liverpool is the Champions League third qualifying round first-leg tie against Maccabi Haifa on Wednesday.
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Benitez has been frustrated over their failed attempts to sign Aston Villa's Gareth Barry and they could only draw 0-0 against Standard Liege on Wednesday in their Champions League third qualifying round first-leg match.
After all, he rejected Champions League football at Arsenal and Tottenham in favour of a lucrative four-year deal with the Reds, who begin their season with a Europa League third qualifying round first leg against Macedonian side Rabotnicki Komental on Thursday.
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The sides drew 1-1 in the first leg of their second qualifying round tie in Hungary.
The Bulgarians won the first leg of the third qualifying round clash thanks to Kostadin Stoyanov's 73rd-minute goal.
The Hawks first game in the final round of 2010 qualifying is on 28 March against Cameroon.
Spurs reached the Champions League qualifying round for the first time in May by pipping Manchester City to fourth place in the Premier League, thus breaking the stranglehold of the so-called "Big Four" of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.
He won three qualifying matches last week and controlled his first-round match against Garcia-Lopez from the outset.
She went to her first European championships at 16, simply hoping to make it out of the qualifying round.
Former Scotland captain Rioch's side have a 5-0 first-leg lead over Modrica so should make it through to the third qualifying round.
United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Rangers all reached the first round automatically, while Arsenal eased to a 5-1 aggregate victory over Celtic in qualifying to clinch their place in the lucrative stages of Europe's premier competition.
The Londoner also came through qualifying at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo in September, before losing in the first round to Hungary's Greta Arn.
The U.S., which had been 12-3-3 against Honduras, lost its final-round opener for the first time in five games since the "hexagonal" format was adopted in qualifying for the 1998 tournament.
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