يستعد منتخب السعودية، لخوض مباراة قوية وهامة اليوم الثلاثاء أمام منافسه اليابان، ضمن منافسات التصفيات الآسيوية المؤهلة لكأس العالم 2026.
ويحل منتخب السعودية ضيفاً على منافسه الياباني في استاد سايتاما، في إطار مواجهات الجولة الثامنة من التصفيات الآسيوية لكأس العالم.
ويتواجد منتخب السعودية في المجموعة الثالثة لـ تصفيات كأس العالم، بجانب منتخبات اليابان وأستراليا وإندونيسيا والبحرين والصين.
طالع أيضاً.. 10 غيابات تضرب السعودية قبل مواجهة اليابان في تصفيات كأس العالم
ويحتل منتخب اليابان صدارة ترتيب المجموعة الثالثة برصيد 19 نقطة، بينما يأتي المنتخب السعودي بالمركز الثالث، ولديه 9 نقاط.
المنتخب السعودي يدخل المباراة بأزمة كبيرة بسبب غياب 10 لاعبين دفعة واحدة، وهو ما يضعه أمام تحدٍ صعب أمام المنتخب الياباني، الذي يعد أحد أقوى المنافسين في التصفيات، كما أنه ضمن التأهل رسمياً. موعد مباراة السعودية واليابان في تصفيات آسيا لكأس العالم
تنطلق المباراة اليوم الثلاثاء في تمام الساعة 12:35 ظهراً بتوقيت القاهرة، الـ 1:35 ظهراً بتوقيت السعودية. القنوات الناقلة لمباراة السعودية واليابان في تصفيات كأس العالم
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beIN SPORTS HD 1: عبد الله الغامدي.
Alkass 5HD: خالد الحدي.
ويُمكنكم متابعة أحداث مباريات اليوم لحظة بلحظة من مركز المباريات من هنـــــا
Não foi uma boa noite para Enderson Moreira. O treinador do Botafogo, além de ter sido derrotado por 2 a 1 pelo Fluminense na noite desta quinta-feira no Estádio Nilton Santos, pela 5ª rodada do Campeonato Carioca, ainda protagonizou uma cena ‘diferente’ com a arbitragem.
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Já no final da partida, Enderson foi expulso por reclamação. Tudo começou em um lance de possível pênalti não marcado ao Botafogo. Martinelli deu um carrinho em Daniel Borges na área. Imediatamente, todo o banco do Alvinegro foi ao encontro dos árbitros pedindo a marcação.
Sem nenhuma reação, Enderson ficou irritado e perdeu a cabeça com Rodrigo Carvalhaes de Miranda, sendo expulso logo depois. Entre muitos xingamentos, o treinador mostrou o dedo do meio ao árbitro antes de ir ao vestiário. O jogo ficou paralisado por cerca de dois minutos por conta desse episódio.
A derrota tirou a liderança do Campeonato Carioca do Botafogo. O Alvinegro volta aos gramados no próximo domingo para enfrentar o Vasco, no Maranhão, pela 5ª rodada do Estadual.
“If people who have a platform and who are able to reach out and get people to listen and understand say nothing, then who will?”
Reuters02-Dec-2021
Michael Holding said it was important that public figures used their celebrity status to get across important messages•PA Photos/Getty Images
West Indies bowling great Michael Holding wants more sportspeople to step forward and speak out against racism because they have an important platform.In an interview at the conference on Wednesday, Holding said it was important that public figures used their celebrity status to get across important messages, particularly on racism.”If people who have a platform and who are able to reach out and get people to listen and people to understand say nothing, then who will?” Holding asked. “There are sportspeople who are well known throughout the entire world. If they get up and say something, people around the world will want to hear what they have to say and will want to try to understand what they had to say.”And that’s the reason why people with a platform, people with a name, people that are recognised all over the world, need to speak up about things that affect them and affect the world.”Holding has spoken out extensively on racism since an emotive plea for society to change its attitudes following the death of George Floyd in May 2020 in the United States. Floyd’s death led to the Black Lives Matter movement going global.Holding has published a book “Why we Kneel, How We Rise” which covers racism in sport and has contributions from several high profile black athletes. He said athletes should not have to confine their opinions to sporting matters.Related
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“When they leave the arena, or the basketball courts, they have to go back into society to live a normal life. If they are affected by society, they have to speak up and use their platform.”Holding also said there was a danger that the recent accusations of racism in English county cricket would be compartmentalised into “small boxes” when they were part of a larger societal problem.”We know it’s a cricket problem, because it’s happening now in cricket. But don’t put it in a little box because it’s comfortable to put it in a box. It’s not only football or cricket has a [racism] problem. It’s a society that has a problem. And that is what we need to fix, that’s we need to start. If we can accept that it’s society and not try to put it in small boxes, then we can get somewhere.”Holding said education ensured unconscious bias and required urgent review, with governments needing to take the lead. “The history of mankind has not been taught, what has been taught is what suits our particular narrative. And that narrative is white superiority. Everything taught, even in Africa, in the Caribbean, where I’m from, highlights what white folks have done.”But what about what people of colour have done? They don’t teach that. And that is why I highlighted in my book, so many discoveries, so many innovations, so many things that people of colour have done, that they need to teach.”People must recognise that it’s all folks from different denominations and from different sectors and different parts of the world have done great things.”
Depois de bater o Botafogo na casa alvinegra, o Flamengo volta ao Estádio Nilton Santos neste domingo, quando, a partir das 16h, enfrenta o Resende, pela 9ª rodada do Campeonato Carioca. À espera de um bom público em pleno feriado de Carnaval, o Rubro-Negro será o mandante da partida, cujos ingressos custarão de R$ 20 a R$ 70 (saiba como comprar aqui).
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Ao seu estilo, Paulo Sousa tende a poupar jogadores que atuaram no clássico recente e seguir rodando o elenco. Com dores no joelho, Gustavo Henrique segue como baixa, assim como Rodrigo Caio, no DM. Thiago Maia é dúvida, mas dificilmente terá condições de jogo.
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FICHA TÉCNICA Flamengo x Resende – 9ª rodada do Carioca Data e horário: 27/02/2022, às 16h (de Brasília) Local: Estádio Nilton Santos, no Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Árbitro:Felipe da Silva Gonçalves Paludo Assistentes:Rodrigo Figueiredo Henrique Corrêa eGustavo Mota Correia Onde assistir: Record TV, Cariocão Play, Fla TV+ e Tempo Real do LANCE!
FLAMENGO (Técnico: Paulo Sousa) Diego Alves (Hugo), Fabrício Bruno, David Luiz e Filipe Luís (Léo Pereira); Rodinei (Isla), Andreas Pereira, Gomes e Everton Ribeiro; Vitinho, Bruno Henrique (Marinho) e Gabigol (Pedro).
Suspensos: – Pendurados: Marinho, Andreas Pereira, Willian Arão, Gabigol, Cleiton, Igor Jesus e Léo Pereira. Fora: Gustavo Henrique,Thiago Maia (dúvida) e Rodrigo Caio.
RESENDE (Técnico:Sandro Sargentim) Jefferson Luis, Juninho, Joanderson, Heitor, Alan Cardoso, Khevin, João Felipe, Brendon, Emanuel Biancucchi, Igor Bolt e Raphael Macena.
Suspensos: – Pendurados: João Felipe,Jefferson Luis e Emanuel Biancucchi.
Event CEO Andrea Nelson has confirmed that the tournament will be played at the original six venues
Annesha Ghosh28-Jan-2022
NZC made several changes concerning venues for upcoming season to reduce risks of Omicron•Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images
The delayed Women’s ODI World Cup will go ahead as scheduled across the original six venues in New Zealand, starting March 4 even as the hosts’ bilateral series for the rest of the season have moved to a condensed list of grounds in the wake of a community outbreak of the Omicron variant that put the nation under enhanced Covid-19 restrictions on Sunday.The affirmation on the World Cup sticking to the original schedule came from Andrea Nelson, the CEO of the event, 35 days out from the start of the tournament. “We did look at multiple contingency plans over the last 12 months as you can well imagine. But the plan is to retain the schedule as it is with the six venues,” Nelson said at a virtual media roundtable organised by the ICC on Friday.”The contingency measures we’re putting in place relate to kind of partaking the travel between those venues as much as possible. One of the factors [of hosting a multi-team cricket event] in New Zealand is that our venues are very different to, for example, some of the venues in the subcontinent or the UK. For those that have watched cricket in New Zealand, we’ve got grass-bank stadiums, [and] smaller stadiums that don’t have hotels built into them. So it’s a very different environment to how some of it have been staged recently.”Related
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The eight-team, 31-match tournament is slated to be played at Mount Maunganui, Dunedin, Wellington, Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch. Though domestic and bilateral international cricket in the country is now set to be played behind closed doors, the Women’s ODI World Cup organising committee is keeping “all options open” for fans.New Zealand moved into the ‘red’ setting of a traffic-light system late on Sunday after cases emerged on both North and South Island. Though the measures introduced in its wake don’t amount to a lockdown, there is a limit of 100 vaccinated people at any event. The country’s border arrangements require all overseas arrivals to stay in the government’s Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) facilities for a mandatory ten days, with the World Cup teams all having had their stints approved before a recent pause to the system. India, who arrived in New Zealand on January 26, became the first participating team at the World Cup to enter the MIQ.The Women’s World Cup was originally scheduled for February-March 2021, but was pushed back by a year•International Cricket Council
“In terms of the delivery of the event for the players, it has not brought about any changes because we had been planning alongside the ICC for the safest possible tournament,” Nelson added. “So there are no significant changes to the way we deliver it for the players. Predominantly, the changes are related to the spectators inside the stadium.”New Zealand has moved to a traffic-light system… And broadly speaking, that puts at the moment attendance [which] can be only in groups of 100. So the work we’re undertaking at the moment is how many groups of 100 can we fit within each stadium. And we’re working through a bit of detail on all that … But really, the message is: we set out to kind of create a fantastic platform for these athletes to perform on, and we remain fully committed to doing that.”The Women’s ODI World Cup was originally scheduled for February-March 2021, but was pushed back a year owing to the pandemic. Asked if she deemed any circumstances at present for the tournament to be postponed a second time, Nelson said all plans were on track: “The first team is on the ground already. The next team arrives next week. Plans have well advanced. There’s no information [on a potential postponement] we have at the moment.”On Thursday, the NZC made several changes concerning venues for its upcoming international season to reduce risks of exposure to the Omicron variant. All of India Women’s six limited-overs matches were moved to the John Davies Oval in Queenstown. Earlier, McLean Park in Napier was to hold the one-off T20I and the opening ODI, the Saxton Oval in Nelson was slated to stage the second and third ODIs on February 14 and 16, and the final two ODIs were to be played in Queenstown on February 22 and 24.South Africa men’s upcoming visit for two Tests was also limited to Christchurch after they were originally scheduled to play one Test there and the other in Wellington. All three men’s T20Is against Australia will now be restricted to Napier, and Netherlands’ visit for a men’s white-ball tour will be split between Mount Maunganui, which will be hosting the one-off T20I and an ODI, and Hamilton, where the remaining two ODIs will be played.
كشفت تقارير صحفية إسبانية، عن تطورات جديدة حول مستقبل لاعب الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي برشلونة، بيدري، خلال الفترة الحالية من الموسم.
ويرتبط لاعب الوسط الإسباني بعقد مع برشلونة حتى يونيو 2030، بعد أن وقع على عقد جديد منذ شهرين.
ويحتل برشلونة صدارة ترتيب الدوري الإسباني برصيد 66 نقطة، ويتواجد أيضاً الفريق في منافسات ربع نهائي دوري أبطال أوروبا هذا العام.
اقرأ ايضاً.. بيدري: الكرة الذهبية بعيدة عني.. ولم أصل لمستوى تشافي وإنييستا مع برشلونة
وذكرت صحيفة ماركا الإسبانية أن نادي مانشستر سيتي مستعد لتقديم عرض بقيمة 100 مليون يورو للتعاقد مع بيدري في الانتقالات الصيفية المقبلة.
وتابعت الصحيفة أن إدارة مانشستر سيتي ترى أن بيدري قادر على تعويض رحيل كيفين دي بروين عن صفوف الفريق السماوي بنهاية الموسم.
وبحسب ما ورد في الصحف الإسبانية فإن إدارة برشلونة تدرك أهمية اهتمام أندية القارة الأوروبية بالتوقيع مع بيدري بإعتباره أحد أفضل اللاعبين في العالم.
وأكدت ماركا أن برشلونة لن يتخلى عن خدمات بيدري وأنه ليس للبيع، وأن اللاعب الإسباني سعيد للغاية بالبقاء داخل برشلونة بعد أن وقع على عقد جديد يمتد حتى خمس سنوات قادمة.
وشارك بيدري هذا العام في 44 مباراة مع برشلونة في جميع المسابقات، وتمكن من تسجيل 5 أهداف وقام بصناعة 7 أهداف طوال الموسم.
Manchester City have made contact to sign a £40 million+ star who is excited about a possible switch to the Etihad, according to a new report.
The Blues are back in Premier League action this Saturday, as they welcome Tottenham Hotspur to the Etihad, looking to end their four-game losing run. Ahead of City’s return to action, there have been some developments over the future of Pep Guardiola.
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It was revealed by The Athletic’s Sam Lee on Tuesday evening that Guardiola has agreed to a new contract to stay as City manager. The 53-year-old’s current contract was due to expire at the end of the season, but he now looks set to remain at the Etihad for a little while longer.
The Spaniard has agreed a new one-year deal that has the option to be extended by another year, meaning he could stay at the club until 2027, and that would take him to over a decade at the club. Guardiola has won 18 trophies during his time as City manager, and an announcement is expected in the coming days about his new contract.
Guardiola will hope this news can put the focus back onto the team and the rest of the season, as they look to end this poor run of form that has seen them lose ground in the Premier League. As Guardiola’s future now looks to be resolved, Man City chiefs are turning their attention to what business they could conduct during January, as they have their eye on a new midfielder.
Man City make contact to sign £40m+ Ederson
According to TEAMtalk, Manchester City have made contact with the agents of Atalanta’s Edersonin the last few days to get an understanding of his interest in a move to the Etihad. The 25-year-old has been with the Italian side since July 2022, and in his two-and-a-bit seasons at the club, he has become an important figure.
Ederson played 36 times last season in the league, scoring six goals in the process, as well as playing 12 games in the Europa League, as the Italian side claimed the European Trophy in Ireland. His importance in the side has continued into this campaign, as he’s started 16 of the 17 games he has played in all competitions.
This report states that City does hold a concrete interest in the Brazilian midfielder, and a move in January is being considered, as Guardiola wants to bring in a new midfielder given Rodri’s injury that was suffered earlier in the season.
Ederson’s Atalanta stats
Apps
107
Goals
9
Assists
3
The Blues have now made contact with the representatives of Ederson to get an understanding of his interest in a move to the Etihad. The midfielder is said to be “flattered” by the interest, and the idea of playing for Guardiola’s team “excites” him, but it could be a difficult deal to complete.
Atalanta are not willing to sell Ederson for anything less than €50 million, which is roughly £41 million, and their stance is said to be firm on this. Guardiola is a big fan of Ederson’s, but that valuation must be matched for a deal to be completed.
Em crise por conta do momento complicado na temporada, o Bahia volta a campo no fim de semana e precisa dar uma resposta contra o Jacupiense.
– VEJA A TABELA DA SÉRIE B
O Tricolor está fora do G-4 do Campeonato Baiano e tem a necessidade de somar os três pontos. No momento, o Esquadrão é o 6º colocado, com 6 pontos.
Força Máxima
Diferente das outras temporadas, desta vez o Bahia joga com força máxima a competição e o Esquadrão de Aço vai com o que tem de melhor.
Confira a provável escalação: Matheus Teixeira; Borel, Luiz Otávio, Ignácio e Luiz Henrique; Patrick, Willian Maranhão (Rezende) e Daniel; Raí, Marco Antônio e Rodallega.
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Chelsea are now laying early groundwork to sign Ipswich Town star Liam Delap due to an emerging key factor, which has apparently propelled Enzo Maresca’s side into action behind-the-scenes at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea shortlist Liam Delap as BlueCo consider new striker
Delap, among many other striker names, has been linked with a high-profile move to west London – despite the fine form of Nicolas Jackson this season.
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The Senegal international scored his eighth of the season in all competitions by opening the scoring inside seven minutes against Aston Villa on Sunday, but it remains the belief that Chelsea are still considering a world-class new target man for 2025.
Newcastle United star Alexander Isak is on Chelsea’s striker shortlist, as some reports claim Todd Boehly and co may even attempt an £80 million bid for the Swede, but Delap is a name that keeps on being mentioned by reliable sources.
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Southampton (away)
December 4
Tottenham (home)
December 8
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December 15
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December 22
Fulham (home)
December 26
The Athletic and David Ornstein recently backed claims that Chelsea are monitoring the Englishman ahead of both January and next summer, alongside Ruben Amorim’s Man United, as the big six take a serious interest in his exploits.
Alongside Ornstein, another very reliable journalist, Simon Phillips, reported last week that Chelsea are expected to make an imminent enquiry for Delap “at the very least” – which makes for promising reading.
The 21-year-old has scored six goals in 14 appearances for Ipswich this season, which is impressive considering those numbers are for a club competing at the bottom end of the table.
Delap is also homegrown, making him a very enticing potential option, with Ipswich apparently set to demand around £42 million for his signature.
While his former club Man City have a £20 million buy-back clause, which would place them ahead of other suitors in the race, there is no guarantee Pep Guardiola’s side will look to trigger it.
Chelsea laying early groundwork to sign Liam Delap from Ipswich Town
Now, taking to his Substack, Phillips has provided another update on Chelsea’s pursuit of the in-form Premier League star.
It is believed Chelsea have now begun laying the groundwork to sign Delap, due to the ever-increasing demand for his signature from rival clubs, with Joe Shields, the club’s co-director of recruitment and talent, personally driving their interest in the young forward.
While there is no guarantee that they will make a formal offer for him, with many other number nines under consideration, it is believed “early work” has started on a potential transfer for Delap.
The “quick” ex-Hull City loanee is shaping up to be England’s next rising star striker, and it appears Chelsea are very aware of this as they plan a move to lure him to London.
Samson and Jadeja also played aggressive knocks as India romped home with 17 balls remaining
Hemant Brar26-Feb-20221:29
Jaffer: India’s batters making the most of their chances
Shreyas Iyer’s unbeaten 74 off 44 balls trumped Pathum Nissanka’s 75 off 53, while Ravindra Jadeja’s 45 not out off 18 outshone Dasun Shanaka’s 47 not out off 19 as India chased down Sri Lanka’s 183 for 5 with seven wickets and 17 balls to spare in the second T20I in Dharamsala. The win, India’s 11th on the trot in T20Is, gave the hosts an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.After being put in, Sri Lanka were only 111 for 4 after 16 overs but Nissanka and Shanaka ransacked 72 off the last four. Nissanka hit 11 fours during his stay, while Shanaka preferred the aerial route. He struck two fours and five sixes, two of them on the last two balls of the innings, to propel Sri Lanka to a formidable total.India lost Rohit Sharma in the first over of the chase and were 56 for 2 after eight overs, needing another 128 from the last 12. Initially, Shreyas seemed uncertain, shuffling around the crease, but once he began connecting his shots, the Sri Lanka bowlers looked helpless against his power and timing.Shreyas Iyer hit six fours and four sixes in his unbeaten 74•BCCI
Sanju Samson began scratchily too, but he took 23 off the 13th over, bowled by Lahiru Kumara, leaving India needing 56 off 42 when Jadeja walked in. Jadeja did the bulk of the scoring from there on, and handed India a comfortable win in the end.Sri Lanka’s sedate start Bowling first, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah made good use of the moisture in the surface. Both seamers got the ball to jag around, with Bumrah slipping in a few yorkers as well. Openers Nissanka and Danushka Gunathilaka tried to counter that by showing attacking intent but they struggled to connect their shots. In the first four overs, Sri Lanka scored only 15 runs and hit just one boundary.The step up With the ball still moving around, there was a case to give Bhuvneshwar a third over in the powerplay but Rohit went to Harshal Patel. Harshal tried his slower one with mixed results: there were a couple of plays-and-misses in the fifth over but also two boundaries.The next three overs featured a boundary each as Sri Lanka went past 50 in the eighth over. Gunathilaka then smashed Jadeja for six, four and six off the first three balls of the ninth over, with both sixes coming via slog-sweeps. Off the fourth ball, he went for another slog-sweep but this time Jadeja shortened his length a touch and bowled it further away from his arc to induce a top-edge, which Venkatesh Iyer gobbled up running in from long-on.Pathum Nissanka played plenty of inventive shots behind the wicket•BCCI
Nissanka, Shanaka launch onslaught The next two overs produced two more wickets – Yuzvendra Chahal trapped Charith Asalanka lbw and Harshal had Kamil Mishara caught in the covers with a slower one – but Nissanka kept the scoreboard ticking with a couple of fours off Bhuvneshwar in the 13th over. In the 15th, Dinesh Chandimal brought up Sri Lanka’s 100 with a straight four off Bumrah but the bowler dismissed him off the very next ball with an offcutter.Nissanka reached his fifty off 43 balls with a boundary off Chahal, before he and Shanaka went all-out. Shanaka launched Harshal for two sixes in a 19-run 17th over, while Nissanka used the lap and the reverse lap to help take 14 off Bumrah in the 18th.Bhuvneshwar was the next to bear the brunt as Shanaka hit successive balls for six and four. Bhuvneshwar dismissed Nissanka with the last ball of his spell but Shanaka wasn’t done yet. He smashed Harshal for two sixes and a four in the 20th over, which also featured four leg-byes and went for 23 in all.Pace like fire If Bhuvneshwar and Bumrah tested the Sri Lanka openers with swing, Dushmantha Chameera and Kumara troubled Indian with raw pace. Rohit played on to Chameera in the first over; it was the fifth time Chameera had dismissed him in T20Is, the most for any bowler-batter combination. Kumara began his spell with a 146.7kph thunderbolt. With his second ball, he rattled Ishan Kishan by hitting him on the helmet.In the fifth over, Shreyas hit Binura Fernando for three successive fours but Kumara got rid of Kishan with the first ball of the next over. The batter tried to whip one towards midwicket but ended up lobbing it towards mid-on.Dushmantha Chameera dismissed Rohit Sharma for the fifth time in T20Is•BCCI
Shreyas breaks the shackles, Samson joins in belatedly India managed just 12 runs from overs six to eight before Shreyas stepped out to left-arm spinner Praveen Jayawickrama and launched him for back-to-back sixes. At the halfway stage, India were 80 for 2, needing 104 from the last ten overs. Shreyas hit two more sixes in the next two overs, the first one bringing up his half-century off just 30 balls.Samson was on 17 off 19 balls before hitting three sixes and a four in Kumara’s third over. He fell off the final ball of the over, trying to fetch another boundary, but the 23 runs from it had brought the equation down to 56 required from seven overs.Jadeja applies finishing touches For the second match in a row, Jadeja was sent in ahead of Venkatesh. He opened his account by creaming Chamika Karunaratne through extra-cover and hit three boundaries off the first six balls he faced. Soon, India needed only 31 from 30 balls. In the 16th over, Jadeja got stuck into Chameera, hitting him for three fours and six to all but seal the deal.