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أعرب ثنائي فريق الكرة الأول بنادي الزمالك، محمود علاء ومحمد أشرف روقا، عن سعادتهما بتتويج الفارس الأبيض ببطولة الدوري المصري الممتاز هذا الموسم.

وقال روقا في تصريحات عقب المباراة: “أحمد الله على التتويج بدرع الدوري، رغم أن البداية لم تكن جيدة”.

طالع | موعد مباراة الزمالك القادمة أمام المصري في الدوري

وأضاف: “ولكن الزمالك ناد كبير جدًا، ودائمًا ما يستهدف البطولة، كما أنه يحظى بدعم ومساندة مجلس الإدارة، واستطعنا تحقيق المطلوب وإسعاد جمهورنا العظيم”.

وحرص محمود علاء على تهنئة جماهير الزمالك ومجلس إدارته، مشيرًا إلى أن الله كلل مجهودات الجميع بالنجاح.

وأردف: “أعتذر لجماهير الزمالك، بيننا (عشم) كبير جدًا، والجمهور هو من يجعل اسم اللاعب عاليًا، ولا يوجد من يتعمد الخطأ”.

وأتم: “أمير مرتضى منصور استطاع أن يُغلِق على الفريق، وبالتأكيد أنا مستمر مع الزمالك”.

واختتم: “يجب أن أكرر اعتذاري، عشنا مع بطولات كثيرة، وأُطلق على هذا الدوري، دوري جماهير الزمالك، حيث كانوا يساندونا ويدعمونا”.

Mohammad Yousuf has said that he has obtained a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) from the rebel Indian Cricket League, paving the way for him to return to international cricket for Pakistan

Cricinfo staff26-May-2009

Mohammad Yousuf has said he has obtained a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Indian Cricket League, which will pave the way for him to return to international cricket for Pakistan. The batsman said he had submitted the certificate to Wasim Bari, the Pakistan Cricket Board’s human resources director.”I have submitted an NOC from the Indian league and it’s now up to the authorities to clear my way to play international cricket,” Yousuf told AFP. “I have handed the letter over to the PCB and now wait for their reply as I desperately want to play for my country.”Bari said he had received a written confirmation from Yousuf. “We have to verify this letter and put it before the PCB chairman (Ijaz Butt),” he said.Yousuf had met PCB officials Bari, Mohammad Naeem and Zakir Khan at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, last week and informed them of his resignation. After producing the resignation letter, the officials said they would act only after hearing the ICL’s response to him quitting, though without specifying that an NOC was needed.Yousuf had signed up with the ICL in 2007 but was lured out of the contract by the PCB administration of the day. However, legal wrangles denied him an IPL contract in 2008 and he rejoined the ICL in November. That virtually ended his career with Pakistan but the latest development, it is believed, could see him returning sooner rather than later. The PCB had stated that they would consider the return of the ICL players on a case-by-case basis.His team-mate Abdul Razzaq also said he had quit the ICL.

Frank McAvennie says Ange Postecoglou may be overlooking his ‘best left-back’ in Boli Bolingoli. 

The lowdown

Bolingoli has been limited to just two starts in Celtic’s first 11 league games under Postecoglou.

Greg Taylor started the season as the Australian’s first choice in the top flight before sustaining a shoulder injury against Ross County in mid-September.

Postecoglou has looked to Josip Juranovic, a natural right-back, and teenager Adam Montgomery in addition to Bolingoli during that lay-off.

That indicates he’s not entirely convinced by a player who spent last season on loan at Turkish Super Lig outfit Istanbul Basaksehir.

To be fair to the manager, Bolingoli didn’t exactly set the world alight out on loan, starting only ten games and averaging just a 6.63 average match rating with the Turkish outfit.

The latest

McAvennie says he’s been impressed by Bolingoli’s performances so far this season and declared them far better than Taylor’s displays prior to his injury.

“I still think he’s our best left-back,” the ex-Hoop told Football Insider. “But the manager sees him every day, I don’t need to point out that he knows more than me.

“All I can say is what I have seen. Bolingoli has been great when I have seen him this season.

“I think he’s looked miles better than Taylor. For that reason, I was surprised he has been left out again.

“We are playing well at the moment and Postecoglou might not be comfortable with him in the new style.

“I doubt it’s a temperament issue. He’s not that kind of player. He’s strong in the tackle is all.”

The 61 year-old ended his comments rather bluntly: “I don’t get it.”

The verdict

How has Bolingoli fared when he has played? Well his average SofaScore rating stands at a commendable 7.0, although it does rank him slightly below Juranovic and Taylor.

Overall, he’s won the majority of his defensive duels, but his attacking output was very limited in those games, with no key passes and only one accurate cross recorded. That could be the stylistic concern McAvennie alludes to.

That said, one could argue that having a right-footer in the position is a bigger issue from that point of view, restricting the team’s width and the full-back’s ability to bomb down the flank and whip crosses in.

Seeing a right-back selected ahead of him will surely put a significant dent in Bolingoli’s confidence, and perhaps tempt the defender to find a new home elsewhere when the transfer window rolls around.

In other news, read this injury expert’s verdict on Christopher Jullien.

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Bruno Henrique, que chegou ao Palmeiras após o prazo de inscrições na Copa do Brasil e não participou da queda diante do Cruzeiro, foi o escolhido para dar entrevista coletiva nesta quinta-feira. O camisa 9 estava em Belo Horizonte com a delegação e comentou a cobrança de torcedores, liderados pelo conselheiro Carlos Degon, no hotel após a partida.

– Cobrança, desde que não haja agressão física, temos que saber receber, somos profissionais. Nosso grupo está fechado, focado. Sabemos que quando você é eliminado as críticas e as coisas negativas vêm de fora, temos consciência disso. Conversamos e temos que nos fechar porque temos duas competições importantes ainda. Nosso grupo está bem chateado, é claro, mas temos que ter maturidade para absorver essas cobranças da melhor maneira possível e se fechar – disse o jogador.

As cobranças sobre o Palmeiras são motivadas pelo enorme investimento feito para esta temporada. Bruno Henrique, repetindo o discurso usado antes por Cuca e Alexandre Mattos, repeliu o tom de “obrigação de títulos”.

– Todos os clubes fizeram investimentos, contrataram jogadores. É normal no futebol. Não é sempre que você vai contratar e as coisas vão dar certo. Também não vejo as coisas aqui dando errado. Saímos da Copa do Brasil, mas não podemos dizer que as coisas estão dando errado. Quando você traz jogadores tem uma cobrança, sim, isso é normal. Mas no Palmeiras a cobrança será sempre a mesma, o clube é muito grande. Não temos que bater na tecla de que trouxe jogadores e por isso tem que ganhar – declarou.

– O Palmeiras contratou bastante, tem elenco forte, por ter duas, três, quatro competições no ano para jogar. Sobre jogar com reservas, todos que estão aqui estão demonstrando que têm condições, quando jogam estão correspondendo. A equipe está se fortalecendo. Tomamos o gol no fim ontem, e se não tivesse tomado aquele gol a conversa seria diferente, todo mundo elogiaria o elenco. O Palmeiras prioriza todas as competições que joga, é por isso que tem tantos jogadores de alto nível – completou Bruno.

Ele tem boas chances de ser titular contra o Avaí, às 19h de sábado, no Allianz Parque.

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One over from Andrew Flintoff was enough to show West Indies the task they face to save this Test

Andrew McGlashan in Antigua16-Feb-2009
Andrew Flintoff was nailed by low bounce. He has the chance to get his revenge on the third day © AFP
One over from Andrew Flintoff was enough to show West Indies the task they face to save this Test. He doesn’t need a diagram to show him where to bowl, but in this match he has the help of a football marking on a perfect length. That the over was bowled to Chris Gayle merely rubbed in the fact that West Indies had asked England to bat first. No wonder Gayle’s swagger was not as noticeable as it was in Kingston.”When you are consistently hitting that area the ball is misbehaving quite a bit,” said Paul Collingwood. “But the other parts of the pitch are behaving quite well and there’s not a lot in it for full [length]. The short balls are going through quickly, but the more you hit that halfway area there is inconsistent bounce. Hopefully we can home in on that tomorrow. It looks like Freddie’s length and we all know how accurate he can bowl.”In the 36 hours that the groundstaff had to prepare this surface they used a road-roller to try and flatten the ridge as much as possible. England’s end result of 566 for 9 showed that the trick worked for a while, but an increasing number of deliveries have started to interest the bowlers.Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff both received balls that kept low from Jerome Taylor at the Factory Road End. Gayle was then on the wrong end of the opposite extremes as one climbed past his nose before the next kept low by his ankles. The mind-games had started and when Gayle drove lazily to mid-off it was the shot of a distracted man.However, John Dyson, the West Indies coach, had no qualms about the surface. “There were a few balls that misbehaved, but one of the things I’ve said about Test wickets in the last 12 months is that some of them are just too good.”They aren’t meant to last six or seven days. You expect them to wear and play a few tricks. Just how many tricks it will play we won’t be sure on until we see it tomorrow. The main tricks have been made by the soccer line, not the wicket itself.”In the aftermath of the abandonment on Friday, Gayle joked that this Test should be played back in Jamaica. At the time it was said with tongue firmly in cheek, but the demeanour of West Indies throughout the opening two days has been of a side that doesn’t want to be here. Unlike England, they don’t appear to have been able to put all the various issues out of their minds.”I was a little disappointed with the way we bowled today,” Dyson said. “On a wicket like that you have to be very patient and we fell back into an old habit of being to be aggressive.”Fidel Edwards was an exception as he ran in hard throughout and bowled with intelligence and extreme pace, and Brendan Nash stood out in the field for the manner he continually cajoled his team-mates. Nash’s Australian upbringing shone through, for Aussies don’t accept anything except total commitment. It’s a trait the home side will need plenty of in the next three days.In the aftermath of West Indies’ stunning victory in Kingston both Dyson and Gayle called for calm. They realised that an evolving team was going to have some days like this. Now they have to show that when the going gets tough they can battle it out. That will be a true test of how far this side has come.

Rafa Benitez has overseen an impressive start to the season as the new manager of Everton.

There were significant worries over the Spaniard’s credentials when he first entered Goodison Park but those fears have been quashed with aplomb.

Everton have gathered seven points from their opening three matches but there is one controversy that continues to rage on.

That surrounds one of Benitez’s former players; James Rodriguez.

The 61-year-old took charge of Rodriguez during his spell at Real Madrid but it doesn’t seem as though their relationship has blossomed.

He wants to leave Merseyside behind and came so close to departing for good this summer. However, after failing to seal a switch away, he’s now back in training for the Toffees as they prepare to face Burnley.

James has immense quality in his locker, something that ten Premier League goal involvements last term testifies.

Yet, does he really deserve to play for Everton again? Arguably not. Benitez will presumably give him a second chance at Goodison but if he continues to strop, there are young players waiting in the wings.

One of them is Charlie Whitaker. The attacking midfielder joined Everton at the age of 12 and has risen through the academy ranks with some stellar contributions.

He scored six times for the U18 side but since making an early transition to the U23s, has been catching the eye even more.

Whitaker has scored eight goals in nine outings at the highest academy bracket, three of which have come in four Premier League 2 outings this term.

A central midfielder by trade, David Unsworth has found a new position for him as a second striker, picking up small pockets of space in the hole and carving out goal scoring opportunities.

Speaking about the 17-year-old back in May, Unsworth commented: “We have tried to get someone up there with him and he has been sensational. He is a great trainer, great to work with and a great lad. He does the hardest thing in the game, which is score goals, and he makes it look really easy.

The boss continued: “For the size of him, he is good in the air, he is brave, we just need him to link play and the future is bright for him. I’m not getting over-excited, because you can’t, it is too early. But the signs are very, very good.”

Versatile, dynamic and exciting, Whitaker isn’t the first attacking midfielder to come through the production line.

You only need to think of Kieran Dowell, a similarly tricky player who failed to make the grade at Everton and is now plying his trade for Norwich after several loan spells away.

However, if James does depart, then an opportunity to thrive in the first-team set-up has to come Whitaker’s way.

His ability to transition with such perfection through the age groups at youth level, coupled with his ability to score goals, makes him an appealing option for Benitez.

AND in other news, Rafa must ruthlessly axe “sloppy” £69k-p/w Everton liability, he’s “regressed awfully”…

أعلنت اللجنة المنظمة لبطولة كأس أمم إفريقيا لكرة اليد رقم 25، التي أقيمت في مصر، عن تشكيل لاعبي الفريق الأفضل في المنافسات.

وكانت البطولة التي اختتمت اليوم، قد نجح منتخب مصر في الظفر بها، بعد فوز كبير على كاب فيردي في موقعة الفاينال، بنتيجة 25-37.

فيديو | منتخب مصر يتوج بأمم إفريقيا لليد للمرة الثامنة في تاريخه بعد فوزه على الرأس الأخضر تشكيل فريق بطولة أمم إفريقيا لكرة اليد

حراسة المرمى: علي العروسي (المغرب).

الخط الخلفي الأيمن: عمر يحيى (مصر).

الخط الخلفي الأيسر: علي زين (مصر).

لاعب وسط خلفي: لياندرو ساميدو (كاب فيردي).

لاعب دائرة: جهاد جاب الله (تونس).

جناح أيسر: عمر الوكيل (مصر).

جناح أيمن: هشام الحكيمي (المغرب).

The chairman of the ECB, Giles Clarke, has given a strong indication that England could take on Scotland for a 20-over match a few weeks before the ICC World Twenty20 this summer

Cricinfo staff14-Jan-2009
Giles Clarke has spoken with Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond, about cricket in the country © Getty Images
The chairman of the ECB, Giles Clarke, has given a strong indication that England could take on Scotland for a 20-over match a few weeks before the ICC World Twenty20 this summer.England’s first match of the tournament gets underway on June 5 against the Netherlands, but Clarke intimated that teams will need sufficient practice ahead of the event, with England tackling Scotland possibly on June 2 or 3.”Almost certainly Scotland will have a warm-up game with England, probably at Trent Bridge,” Clarke told the . “If I were allowed to bet – which I’m not – I’d expect a big travelling support for the Scots.”England have only faced Scotland once in an ODI – last August in Edinburgh, a match blighted by the summer’s gloomy mizzle – and Clarke, whose mother was born in Glasgow, spoke of the need for Scottish cricket to gain a greater foothold. A permanent ground with adequate seating is one such area in which they could improve.”Telling extremely able people who know Scottish cricket better than me what to do is the last thing on my mind. However, as someone who likes to consider themselves a friend of Scottish cricket, there are benefits to be gained if the right steps are put in place,” he said. “I realise it is not the economic environment in which to develop a stadium but it is the right climate in which to have a building contract. Establishing a strong ground would help take the Saltires deeper into the [English] county structure which is necessary to move them forward and they have already come a long way in the short time they’ve been playing regular fixtures.”The shorter the format the greater chance of a more level playing field and Twenty20 fixtures, perhaps against Durham, would help demonstrate crowd appeal. That would mean a [Scottish] economic base to get the sponsorship that drives youth athletes down the road to becoming professionals.”It will require a quantum leap of faith and although I’m not a political person I do know [first minister] Alex Salmond is a cricket fanatic whose father has told me how he travelled by train to Lord’s in 1938 to watch Wally Hammond make a double century against the touring Australians.”I have spent a day with Alex Salmond and my hope is he is in a position to get an argument across for more [government] support of clubs provided they cater for all ages and genders.”Scotland have shown definite improvement as an Associate nation and, along with Ireland, are beginning to show that British Associate cricket is in a healthy state.”They compete particularly well at Twenty20 and one day international level because they are fit, give little away in the field and are very, very tough,” Clarke said. “There’s no reason why similar goals should not be achievable by Scotland and with the ethnic groups preferring cricket to football there is an opportunity to go forward with them on board which should also be appealing in terms of integrating communities.”

أعلن تركي آل الشيخ مالك نادي ألميريا الإسباني، عن خوض فريقه مباراة ودية أمام الهلال السعودي في بريطانيا خلال أغسطس المقبل.

وتمكن الهلال من الفوز بنتيجة 2-1 أمام الفيصلي بالمواجهة التي أقيمت على أرضية ملعب الملك فهد في الجولة الأخيرة من بطولة كأس الأمير محمد بن سلمان.

طالع | تركي آل الشيخ يلمح لإمكانية ضم لاعبين من الدوري المصري أو السعودي لـ ألميريا

وكشف حساب نادي ألميريا الإسباني عن إقامة المباراة أمام الهلال بطل السعودية يوم 7 أغسطس المقبل.

واستطاع فريق ألميريا التأهل إلى دوري الدرجة الأولى الإسباني “لا ليجا” في الموسم المقبل 2022-2023، ومن المقرر أن يستهل مشواره بصدام قوي أمام ريال مدريد حامل اللقب.

مباراة الابطال .. قريباً في بريطانيا ❤️💙

مبروك للزعيم 💙 pic.twitter.com/w28ERmQHrp

— TURKI ALALSHIKH (@Turki_alalshikh) June 27, 2022

🔴⚪ ألميريا 🆚 الهلال 🔵

أسود ألميريا في مواجهة زعيم آسيا وكبيرها 🤩

📆 7 أغسطس

لا يفوتكم ❤️ pic.twitter.com/NbgI8C8iAB

— نادي ألميريا (@UDAlmeria_Arab) June 27, 2022

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O Criciúma reagiu rapidamente ao mau começo na Série B – três derrotas em três jogos: na noite da última terça-feira, o Tigre anunciou a demissão do então técnico Deivid e contratou Luís Claúdio Winck. Junto com o ex-atacante de 37 anos também caem a comissão técnica e o Diretor Executivo de Futebol,Gabriel Skinner.

Deivid comandou o time em 28 jogos e obteve10 vitórias, seis empates e 12 derrotas, com um aproveitamento de 42.8%. Ele comandou o time em quatro competições: Catarinense, Série B, Primeira Liga e Copa do Brasil.

Depois de comunicado da demissão, Deivid não escondeu a frustração e se classificou como um técnico da moda antiga, que gosta de olho no olho.

-A gente fica triste, pois na segunda ele manda um monte de mensagens, falando um monte de coisas e na terça ele faz um negócio desses. A gente não fica triste pela demissão, mas na forma como foi. Uma falta de respeito, profissionalismo e respeito com o ser humano, mostra que ele está visando dinheiro e pegando o clube para fazer negócios – comentou o comandante, em entrevista à Rádio Difusora.

O clube catarinense volta a campo no próximo sábado, às 16h30, quando visita o Luverdense, na Arena Pantanal, pela quarta rodada da Série B.

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