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Free agent Hargreaves heads to QPR in bid to prove his fitness

Owen Hargreaves has started training with Queens Park Rangers in another desperate bid to try to salvage his career.The midfielder, 31, was released by Manchester City at the end of last season after failing to make an impact.

Crock: Owen Hargreaves has struggled with problems in recent years

Team GB 3 Cameroon 0: 

Powell’s team achieved their first target as they coasted into the  quarter-finals with an assured performance over a physical Cameroon team which lacked only a wider margin of victory.

Going well: Jill Scott celebrates scoring with team mates Eniola Aluku and Kelly Smith after her goal

MATCH FACTS

SATURDAY'S OTHER RESULTS

United States 3 Colombia 0
Brazil 1 New Zealand 0
Japan 0 Sweden 0
Canada 3 South Africa 0 
France 5 North Kore

‘We scored three and we could have scored six or seven,’ said  Powell, the coach of the Great  Britain team. ‘We’re striving for excellence in all areas and we have to be more clinical. Now we want to win the group because we could then play a lesser team.

‘We know Brazil are good but they have weaknesses, which we’ll try to exploit. We’ll be trying to win and believe we can. But whatever happens it will be an historic night.’ 

On the evidence of this dominant display the GB women have cause for optimism. Two goals ahead after 23 minutes against a side who had been thumped 5-0 by Brazil in their opening fixture, they had the chance to run up a score which would have sent their morale soaring and put them top of the group.

But despite dominating possession against outclassed opposition, it took GB until nine minutes from time to make the game safe and give the scoreline a truer reflection.

Yet after their narrow, battling  victory over New Zealand, GB were never in danger of dropping any points once they came racing out of the traps and took immediate command of the game.

Watching it go in: Players jump and miss the cross as Casey Stoney scores at the back post

Putting it beyond doubt: Stephanie Houghton celebrates after scoring her team's third goal

But with the enthusiastic 31,000 crowd at the Millennium Stadium hoping to enjoy a rout, it never came. Smith put a free-kick wide,  keeper Annette Ngo Ndom bravely foiled Little then palmed a header from Steph Houghton on to a post.

The departure as a precaution at half-time of Smith, buffeted relentlessly by the Cameroon defenders, seemed to disrupt GB’s play as they remained in command without  looking as dangerous. But at least they rounded off a good day with a cracking third goal.

Going through: Hope Powell watched her team progress

Obama and Beckham in first outing as Man United ambassador

BFormer Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel has been appointed as an official club ambassador. 

The 48-year-old Dane, who won five Premier League titles, three FA Cups and the Champions League during a trophy-laden eight-year spell at Old Trafford, will join the likes of Sir Bobby Charlton, Bryan Robson, Gary Neville and Andrew Cole in helping to promote the Red Devils.

His first duty was to greet America's First Lady Michelle Obama and former United team-mate David Beckham at the pre-Olympic games Let's Move for London event in Regents Park.

Veteran: Former United stopper Schmeichel (left) with Michelle Obama and David Beckham on Friday

Schmeichel told the club's official website: 'It's a great honour to be an ambassador for Manchester United. 

'I spent many happy years at the club and achieved some of my greatest sporting accolades whilst playing here, so I was delighted to be asked to take up this role. 

Great Dane: Schmeichel enjoyed a trophy-laden career at Old Trafford