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Soccer-Chelsea's Cudicini to miss League Cup final

LONDON, Feb 22 - Chelsea have abandoned their
attempt to free goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini to play in Sunday's
League Cup final against Liverpool.

Cudicini was red-carded in Chelsea's 1-0 FA Cup fifth round
defeat at Newcastle on Sunday for bringing down Shola Ameobi
when the striker was clean through on goal.

The dismissal incurred an immediate one-match ban, ruling
Cudicini out of Chelsea's next domestic match -- Sunday's League
Cup final.

Premier League leaders Chelsea said on Monday they would
appeal but the English Football Association said on its website
on Tuesday that the club had now withdrawn their claim for
wrongful dismissal.

The Italian, who has lost his place in the Chelsea goal to
Petr Cech this season, had been promised he would play in
Sunday's Cardiff showpiece by manager Jose Mourinho.

The Chelsea squad are in Barcelona preparing for Wednesday's
Champions League knockout round first leg at the Nou Camp.

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