ظهر رئيس الاتحاد الدولي لكرة القدم، “فيفا”، جياني إنفانتينو، أمام وسائل الإعلام، عشية مباراة نهائي بطولة كأس العالم للأندية، نسخة 2025، بين فريقي باريس سان جيرمان وتشيلسي.

ويستضيف ملعب “ميتلايف” مباراة نهائي النسخة الأولى من بطولة كأس العالم للأندية، بعد استحداثها، بمشاركة 32 فريقًا.

وشهدت تلك النسخة غياب فرق كبرى مثل برشلونة الإسباني، ليفربول الإنجليزي وغيرهم، وهو ما تحدث عنه إنفانتينو في تصريحاته الصحفية اليوم.

وقال إنفانتينو، في تصريحات نشرتها صحيفة “آس” الإسبانية: “لقد اتصلت بنا عدة أندية مهمة للاستفسار عن كيفية مشاركتها في البطولة، خاصة بعدما أصبح أحد المقاعد شاغرًا (عقب استبعاد كلوب ليون)”.

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وأضاف: “بكل تأكيد كنا نرغب في مشاركة فرق مثل ليفربول، برشلونة، مانشستر يونايتد، توتنهام، نابولي وميلان… ولكن هناك معايير، ويجب استيفائها”.

وفيما يخص ازدحام جدول المباريات، مع انتقادات قوية لـ كأس العالم للأندية بسبب توقيته وتأثيره على رفاهية اللاعبين، قال: “صحة اللاعبين أمر أساسي بالنسبة لنا، نحن نتحدث بشكل مستمر عن تحسين الظروف”.

وواصل: “وقعت تغييرات في ذلك الاتجاه، كذلك هناك تقنية الفيديو التي تقلل من العنف، لقد شكلنا فريق عمل لدراسة الجدول الجديد، إنه أمر أساسي، مهمتنا هي الحفاظ على اللاعبين، وهم أبطال المباراة، في أفضل حالة بدنية”.

وأردف: “أخبرني اللاعبون والمدربون أنهم يفضلون اللعب، لا التدريب، علينا أن ننظر إلى هذا ونحلله بعناية للمستقبل، يجب على كل فرد أن يتخذ خطوة، من المهم أن ندرك أن هيكل كرة القدم في الوقت الحالي وطني وقاري وعالمي”.

DDCA to request both senior players to stay but “final decision will be theirs”

PTI11-Aug-2023Former Delhi captain Nitish Rana and the side’s highest run-getter in the Ranji Trophy last season Dhruv Shorey have sought No-Objection Certificates (NOCs) from the DDCA to play for other states in the upcoming domestic season.The development was confirmed by DDCA joint secretary Rajan Manchanda on Friday although he assured that both cricketers will be spoken to and given a patient hearing to find out why they want to take such a decision.”Yes, it is true that both Dhruv and Nitish want to leave Delhi and have sought NOC,” Manchanda told PTI. “We will definitely request them to stay as both are senior players and have served Delhi cricket. But the final decision will be theirs. If they don’t agree, we will certainly give them NOC.”Delhi couldn’t qualify for the Ranji knockouts last season despite Shorey ending with 859 runs. He was the fourth in the list of the highest run-getters after Mayank Agarwal (990), Arpit Vasavada (907) and Anushtup Majumdar (867).When Manchanda was asked if Rana and Shorey will have their grievances addressed, he said: “How can we talk about selection matters? It is the prerogative of selection committee.”Himmat Singh, the middle-order batter, is likely to take over captaincy and Abhay Sharma is unlikely to continue as head coach.

Keaton Jennings’ 127 goes in vain for Lancashire in 95-run defeat

ECB Reporters Network11-Aug-2023

Rishi Patel made a career-best List A score of 161 to help Leicestershire Foxes go to the top of Group A in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup with a thoroughly convincing 95-run defeat of Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford.Patel’s 129-ball innings was followed by an even swifter century from Colin Ackermann, who made 100 not out, as the visitors piled up 411 for 6, their highest score in List A cricket. Patel also became the first player in Leicestershire’s history to score a century in all three formats in the same season.In reply, Lancashire skipper Keaton Jennings made 127 but the home side were bowled out for 316 with the debutant leg-spinner Uttam Ramji taking 3 for 58 off 6.2 eventful overs.In the first innings of the match the bowling of a dot ball represented a triumph. Patel and his opening partner, Sol Budinger, set the tone for their side’s effort by putting on 159 in 21 overs, thus establishing a new record for the first wicket in matches between these counties.After hitting nine fours and three sixes in his 61-ball 81, Budinger was caught at long-on by Tom Bailey off Tom Aspinwall and that began a small collapse for the visitors, who also lost Lewis Hill and Peter Handscomb in the next six overs. But those reverses were merely the prelude to another onslaught as Patel and Ackermann added 110 runs in the next 13 overs.Patel’s magnificent innings ended when he drove Jack Blatherwick to Jennings at cover and the same bowler then had Wiaan Mulder caught behind by Matty Hurst for 2. That left the Foxes on 311 for 5 in the 42nd over but any joy Blatherwick felt at taking his seventh List A wicket of the week was quickly dispelled when he bowled his second above waist-high full toss of the innings and had to be removed from the attack.Lancashire suffering also continued. Although Louis Kimber fell to a catch at deep midwicket off Will Williams for 15, Ackermann and Tom Scriven smashed a further 62 off 34 balls with Ackermann reaching his century when he pushed Bailey’s penultimate ball of the innings for a single. Scriven’s six off the final delivery ensured that Leicestershire’s List A 406 against Berkshire in 1996 was eclipsed.Blatherwick, the only bowler to take more than one wicket finished with three for 70. Apart from Balderson, who picked up one for 24 from five overs, the rest of the home side’s figures carried a government health warning.Needing to score at 8.24 runs per over to win the game, Lancashire’s openers took 35 runs off the first four overs but that bright start to the innings ended when Bell cut Chris Wright very hard to backward point, where Budinger took a fine catch.Josh Bohannon scarcely settled and had made only 10 when he hoisted Scriven high to short mid-on where Mulder took the catch running in from midwicket. Dane Vilas helped Jennings add 77 in nine overs before two run-outs in the space of three overs put the skids under Lancashire’s pursuit.In both cases the non-striker was dismissed. First, Vilas, having made 57, his third successive List A fifty scampered down the wicket when Jennings reverse-swept Ackermann, only to be defeated by Wright and Handscomb’s relay throws; then Balderson thought a single was possible when Jennings played the ball to cover but was beaten by Budinger’s throw to the debutant, Uttam Ramji.Two overs later, Ramji, who has come through the Grace Road Academy, took his first senior wicket when he had Matty Hurst leg before wicket for two to leave Lancashire on 181 for five.The highly-rated Aspinwall then made 16 off eight balls before reverse-sweeping his ninth, from Ackermann to Patel at backward point. Jennings reached his century off 92 balls and later took 16 runs off the first three balls of Ramji’s fifth over, only to be caught at deep midwicket by Ackermann attempting to smack a third maximum.Bailey then supplied some late defiance with a 42-ball 60 but he fell to Ramji’s catch at deep square-leg off Wright and the debutant then dismissed Williams to complete his side’s deserved victory.

أعلن أحمد حسن، نجم منتخب مصر السابق، عن تعرض الكابتن حسن شحاتة، المدير الفني الأسبق للفراعنة، لوعكة صحية مفاجئة خلال الساعات الماضية، تستلزم تدخلاً جراحياً عاجلاً.

وكتب أحمد حسن عبر صفحته الرسمية على موقع “فيس بوك”: “تمنياتنا للكابتن حسن شحاتة بالشفاء العاجل بعد تعرضه لوعكة صحية مفاجئة خلال الساعات الماضية تستلزم خضوعه لجراحة عاجلة اليوم، وخالص الدعاء له بدوام الصحة والعافية”.

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ويعد حسن شحاتة من أبرز الأسماء في تاريخ الكرة المصرية، حيث قاد منتخب مصر لتحقيق ثلاث بطولات متتالية في كأس الأمم الإفريقية أعوام 2006 و2008 و2010، كما صنع جيلاً من اللاعبين المميزين الذين حققوا إنجازات تاريخية على المستويين القاري والدولي.

وتتمنى أسرة موقع بطولات، لكابتن حسن شحاتة، أحد رموز نادي الزمالك والكرة المصرية، الشفاء العاجل ودوام الصحة والعافية، داعين الله أن يجتاز هذه الأزمة بسلام ويعود إلى جمهوره ومحبيه بكامل عافيته.

Marseille owner Frank McCourt says he wants to keep English forward Mason Greenwood at the club and try to challenge Paris Saint-Germain next year.

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Rumours have swirled over Greenwood's future, though the 23-year-old himself made clear his desire to stay at the Stade Velodrome back in May. He scored 22 goals in his first season in southern France and has four years remaining on his contract after signing from Manchester United in 2024.

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Marseille finished second behind PSG in Ligue 1 and secured a return to the Champions League. They will need to strengthen their squad and owner McCourt says the club plan to keep key squad members like Greenwood as well as Adrien Rabiot, Leonardo Balerdi and Amine Gouiri despite interest from elsewhere.

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McCourt said to : "It's my wish [to keep them]. Now, I'm neither the sporting director nor the president. My goal is to put Pablo [Longoria], Medhi [Benatia] and their teams in the best conditions to make the best decisions in the short, medium and long term. Regarding the players mentioned, our goal is to keep them and build the team around them."

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There were reports of a squad rift after a poor end to the season saw Marseille fall way behind PSG in the Ligue 1 title race, but McCourt believes some small tweaks here and there can get them closer to the recent treble winners.

He added: "Of course. If we put the right reforms in place, it will help us, and other clubs, to be more competitive."

Situation in 2024 set to be even more problematic due to T20 World Cup at height of summer

Vithushan Ehantharajah28-Sep-2023Alec Stewart has accused the ECB of disrespecting the County Championship on the day Surrey secured the 2023 title.Stewart, who has been Surrey’s director of cricket since 2014, criticised the decision to schedule a one-day international series against Ireland that affected availability for the final two rounds of the Championship. He also complained about the mooted 2024 schedule, which will further marginalise the first-class game, urging the governing body to better support the counties.With England resting their World Cup squad for the Ireland series, Surrey were without Gus Atkinson and Sam Curran for the run-in, and then had to do without Will Jacks and Jamie Smith as both were included in a second-string squad for those matches. Jacks and Smith missed the penultimate fixture against Northamptonshire, with Surrey struggling in their absence, before joining the final match against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl on day two (Wednesday) after Ireland series ended in Bristol on Tuesday.”I have a bit of a moan here at the ECB,” Stewart said after Surrey had been confirmed as champions for the 21st time in their history. “They still need to respect the County Championship. We all like the Championship, have played in it, worked with it.”Take these Ireland games – England didn’t pick their first team, which was understandable because of the World Cup. But also to say that there was one game during round 13, then a game in between and then one game on the first day of this game. That to me is disrespectful to the county game.Related

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“Could they have staged it better so that you only missed one game and had all three games during that penultimate game and perhaps on that first rest day so that everyone is then available?”With the 2024 T20 World Cup in June and July, domestic competitions will be squeezed further to the periphery next summer. The ECB has discussed billing the season’s climax as “Super September”, with the latter stages of the T20 Blast, finals of the Metro Bank One-Day Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, along with the climax of the County Championship season.The men’s competitions will be shorn of personnel given the international fixtures running concurrently, with the third Test against Sri Lanka, and three T20Is and five ODIs against Australia crammed into 18 days from September 11. Stewart, who has seen the early plans, regards the situation as unworkable.”Even next year, what the probable schedule looks like next year, the ECB are going to try and call it Super September. It’s anything but. When the quarter-final of the T20 is on, there’s a Test match. When the finals of the T20 is on, England are playing Australia in T20s on the Friday and the Sunday. When the 50-over final is on, England are playing Australia.”You have to work with the national team, and I always want England to be the best. But also trying to find a way of being more respectful to the county game because that is where your players are made to go on to England. That’s what we’re up against.”Stewart also called for a return to an eight-team top division to ensure greater integrity in the competition. The ECB shifted to a 10-team Division One in 2021, along with a leaner fixture list with each team playing 14 matches. It meant not everyone in the top-flight plays each other twice, leading to Surrey facing second-place Essex just once this season, after only playing closest challengers Hampshire at the Kia Oval in their successful 2022 campaign.Stewart also regarded the experimental use of the Kookaburra ball for two rounds in June and July as another impediment to a balanced league structure.”If there is symmetry to it, it is so much better. We only played Essex once this year, and the fact that we brought the Kookaburra in for two games – why? We had two home games, others had two away games, others had one at home and one away. So, the integrity of the tournament, you still want to try and keep. We don’t want to be talking about [whether] it is right or fair that we’ve only played Essex once.”It is not easy – I do have sympathy with the people who have to put the schedule together – but my role is director of cricket at Surrey so I care about county cricket a lot. I just want to see that it’s not diluted or put on the backburner and everything is just looked at, internationally or franchise.”

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Um ônibus do São Paulo com funcionários do clube saiu rumo à Córdoba nesta quinta-feira (29). O veículo deve percorrer cerca de2.300 quilômetros até chegar ao palco da decisão da final da Copa Sul-Americana, que acontece no próximo sábado (1), às 17h.

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O ônibus leva profissionais que tiveram uma participação indireta na campanha do São Paulo neste ano. Amaioria trabalha nos setores de comunicação e marketing e realizarão algumas ativações durante o trajeto em cidades brasileiras, como a produção de conteúdos e vídeos. Se tudo correr conforme o planejado, estes funcionários devem chegar na cidade de Córdoba pouco antes do início da partida.

A delegação do São Paulo não poderá utilizar o ônibus para ir ao estádioMário Alberto Kempes. Por conta de normas da Conmebol, somente os ônibus da própria federação poderão ser utilizado pelos jogadores.

Os atletas, dirigentes, Rogério Ceni e outros funcionários envolvidos com o Tricolor já estão em solos argentinos. Estes chegaram em Córdoba por meio de um voo fretado, na última quarta-feira (28). O elenco já treina nesta quinta-feira (29), no estádio Francisco Cabasés.

Club hope to draw line under racism crisis after naming long-sought successor to Lord Patel

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Harry Chathli has been confirmed as Yorkshire’s new chair, following a lengthy search for a successor to Lord Kamlesh Patel, who stood down in March.Chathli, 58, will take over from the club’s interim chair, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, following an extraordinary general meeting, having joined Yorkshire’s board as a non-executive director in June. He will serve a three-year term.”It’s an honour and privilege to be appointed chair of one of the most iconic clubs,” Chathli said. “Cricket is at an inflexion point with unprecedented growth reaching new audiences who are attracted by the variety of formats. Yorkshire has played its part in this growth within the men’s cricket and has also been at the forefront of development of women’s cricket in the country. I am also proud of the fact we are championing disability and LGBTQ+ cricket.”I would like to take this opportunity to thank Tanni for her excellent stewardship of the club through a very challenging period this year.”It is hoped that Chathli’s appointment can draw a line under a turbulent period for Yorkshire, in the wake of the racism crisis that ripped through the club, following Azeem Rafiq’s revelations about his treatment during his playing days.Earlier this year, Yorkshire pleaded guilty to four amended charges of bringing the game into disrepute and were fined £400,000, as well as handed points deductions in the County Championship and other domestic competitions, for their mishandling of Rafiq’s case.Lord Patel, Chathli’s predecessor as full-time chair, was appointed to the role in November 2021 at the height of the crisis, which included the suspension of Headingley’s hosting rights for major matches, and the loss of a raft of principal sponsors including Emerald, Yorkshire Tea and Nike.Patel also sanctioned the sacking of 16 members of Yorkshire’s coaching and back-room staff in a bid to create “a culture which is progressive and inclusive”. That decision was later found to have been “procedurally unfair”, with Yorkshire required to set aside £1.9 million for compensation and legal affairs.Chathli, whose daughter, Kira, plays for South East Stars and was part of the Oval Invincibles team that won the 2022 Hundred, is a highly regarded business leader, and an experienced international capital markets expert, with a 25-year track record of advising global companies, organisations and government agencies.Stephen Vaughan, Yorkshire’s CEO, said: “We are delighted to welcome Harry to the Board and as Chair at Yorkshire County Cricket Club.”Harry brings strong business acumen and experience, and I am sure this positive impact that will benefit Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the Yorkshire Family as a whole.”The Board looks forward to working with Harry and collectively we are committed to delivering long-term success that YCCC members deserve.”

After Jasprit Bumrah went boom in the first over of the Asia Cup final, it was over to Mohammed Siraj. Bang, bang, bang, bang he went in the fourth, ripping out the Sri Lankan top order. It was just the fourth instance of four wickets going to a bowler in an over in men’s ODIs (when ball-by-ball data has been available). He wasn’t done. He picked up two more to finish with 6 for 21 and shoot Sri Lanka out for 50. “Like a dream,” he called it, and put it down to “keeping it simple” and “executing my line and length”. And the batters kept falling.”Last time, against Sri Lanka, in Trivandrum [Thiruvananthapuram], I had taken the first four wickets [three of the first four], but couldn’t get the fifth,” Siraj told Sanjay Manjrekar on the official broadcast between innings. “Then I realised that you only get what is in your destiny, not more, however hard you try. So the plan was to keep it simple and execute my line and length, and I kept getting wickets.”Pathum Nissanka fell first ball of that fourth over, driving an outswinger to Ravindra Jadeja at point. Two balls later, Sadeera Samarawickrama went, trapped in front to one that moved in after pitching outside off stump. Next ball, Charith Asalanka chipped a full ball around off stump to Ishan Kishan at cover. And though he denied Siraj the hat-trick, Dhananjaya de Silva was caught behind nicking the channel delivery off the last ball of the over.