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THURSDAY
Ochoa wants to earn a place in Mexican World Cup selection at Limassol
22.32 hours: Guillermo Ochoa is the new goalkeeper of Ael Limassol. The 40-year-old Mexican wants to show his new club from Cyprus that he is enough fit to participate in a World Cup for the sixth time next year.
Ochoa defended the goal of the Portuguese AVS last season. He made his debut in 2005 for the national team of Mexico and so far played 152 international matches.
Mexico is automatically placed as a host country for the World Cup with 48 participants, just like the United States and Canada.
Football players Ajax beat Sturm Graz in qualifying Europe Cup
9.44 pm: The football players of Ajax have won the home match against Sturm Graz in the first qualifying round for the European Cup. The team of the new trainer Anouk Bruil triumphed 2-0 for the future.
Danique Noordman opened the score in the 69th minute with a beautiful shot. Standster Mirte van Koppen determined the final score in the final phase. Sherida Spitse missed a big chance for the home team in injury time.
Lotte Keukelaar was close to Ajax’s opening goal in the sixth minute. The attacker hit the bar. Just before Noordman’s goal, Danique Tolhoek got a chance. She came across Vanessa Gritzner, the keeper of Sturm Graz. Tolhoek supplied the assist to the Van Koppen goal.
Ajax will play the away match against Sturm Graz next Thursday. The winner over two duels qualifies for the last qualifying round for the main tournament of the Europa Cup.
Final Champions League in two years in Stadium van Atlético
19.51 hours: The Estadio Metropolitano of Atlético Madrid has been assigned the final of the Champions League. It is about the final battle of 2027. The final of next year is on 30 May in the Puskás Aréna in Budapest.
It is the second time that a final of the Champions League in the Stadium of Atlético Madrid has been played. Liverpool defeated Tottenham Hotspur (2-0) in the Estadio Metropolitano in 2019. The final of the Champions League for Women will be played in Warsaw in 2027.
UEFA also announced that the Super Cup will be in Salzburg next year.
Pogba needs more than a month for playing minutes at Monaco
7.18 pm: Trainer Coach Adi Hütter expects Paul Pogba not to debut for AS Monaco until October 18. “He needs some time,” he said about the midfielder who did not play an official game for more than two years due to a doping suspension.
The 32-year-old Pogba, who won the world title with France in 2018, was the last time for Juventus. There his contract was dissolved last year, after testing a forbidden muscle -strengthening agent in August 2023 after a competition duel with Udinese, a forbidden muscle -strengthening agent. Two months later that result was confirmed in the event of a counter-expertise.
Pogba was suspended for four years in February last year, but that punishment was reduced by Sporttribunal Cas to eighteen months. At the end of June he signed a two -year contract with AS Monaco, which will play a match with Angers on October 18.
Cycling team Israel – Premier Tech Koerst in Canada, among other things name
Cycling team Israel – Premier Tech will ride the Grand Prix of Québec and Grand Prix of Montreal under a modified name next week. The team has requested the organizations of both rates in the WorldTour not to name ‘Israel’. An abbreviation for the team was chosen: IPT.
The Israeli team takes into account announced pro-palestine protests in Canada. The drivers of IPT ride both competitions in a different outfit. The name Israel will not be on the shirt as is already the case in the last stages of the Vuelta, confirms the organization of the prices in Canada.
The Tour of Spain has to deal with protests against the performance of the Israeli army in Gaza almost daily. In the fifth stage, the Israel – Premier Tech team was blocked during a team time trial. During two mountain stages the finish was brought forward and the individual time trial on Thursday was drastically shortened from 27.2 to 12.2 kilometers in and around Valladolid.
Participation Diribe Welteji in the World Cup Athletics in danger to refusing doping test
11.07 am: The Ethiopian top athlete Diribe Welteji threatens to miss the 1500 meters at the World Cup athletics in Tokyo. The Independent Integrity Unit AIU has requested the Court of Sports Arbitrage Cas to exclude the athlete from participation because it refused a doping test. The Athletics Association of Ethiopia, however, has acquitted and registered Welteji for the global title fight, which starts on Saturday.
Welteji won silver in the 1500 meters two years ago at the World Cup in Budapest. She is also world champion on the English mile on the road. This season she ran a personal record of 3.51.44 in the 1500 meters. Only the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon ran faster. The title defender sharpened the world record to 3.48.68.
The AIU reports in a press statement that the CAS is expected to make a decision before the start of the series on Saturday at 12.50 pm Dutch time.
Venezuela and Peru Defend national coaches after missing the World Cup
10.35 am: The football associations of Venezuela and Peru have fired their national coach. Both countries did not manage to place next year’s world championship in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Venezuela, led by national coach Fernando Batista, lost 6-3 to Colombia on Tuesday and thereby lost seventh place in the South American qualifying pool to Bolivia, which can now participate in the play-offs.
Oscar Ibanez has to leave at Peru. He is held responsible for the worst World Cup qualification ever for that country. Peru finished as the penultimate and scored only six times in eighteen World Cup qualifying matches.
WEDNESDAY
Protest Surinamese Football Association after racism at Duel in El Salvador
11.21 pm: The Surinamese Football Association (SVB) will submit a formal protest to FIFA and Concacaf football unions following racist expressions to players during and after the away match from the World Cup qualifying series against El Salvador. Surinamese media report that.
Important victory Suriname in World Cup qualification marred by racism: “Why do they call” Negroes “and” monkeys “to our players?”
After the 2-1 duel won, national coach Stanley Menzo and defender Shaquille Pinas were already complaining about it. “Why do they call” Negroes “and” monkeys “to our players?” Menzo wondered during the press conference. Pinas said it has heard it too. “Let no misunderstanding about that. It happened and this is not possible.”
The SVB has condemned the racist expressions in a statement. “During the competition, members of our national selection were confronted with discriminatory chants, including the repeated use of racist insults from parts of the public,” the newspaper quotes true time. “Such behavior does not belong in football and not in society.”
French goalkeeper Mandanda (40) ends career
8.43 pm: The French goalkeeper Steve Mandanda has ended his career. The 40-year-old former international was without a club after his contract with Stade Rennes was not extended last summer. Mandanda became best known as the keeper of Olympique Marseille. For that southern French top club he came out 613 times, where he kept just under two hundred times the zero.
“I had to take the time to accept it, because it’s not easy, but yes, I’m stopping it,” he told Sportkrant L’équipe.
Mandanda kept 35 times in the French national team. In 2018 he was a reserve goalkeeper behind Hugo Lloris when France won the world title at the expense of Croatia. He had been kept Rennes with Stade Rennes since 2022.
Boxer Weerheim misses medal at World Cup in Liverpool
8.32 pm: Boxer Gabriella Weerheim did not succeed in reaching the semi -finals in the class up to 57 kilograms at the Liverpool world championships. The Colombian Valeria Arboleda won on points from 20-year-old Rotterdamse. The jury was unanimous: 5-0. With a win, Weerheim had already been certain of at least a bronze medal.
Weheim had made a strong impression in Liverpool until Wednesday. Both in her opening party against the Azerbaijani Aynoer Mikayilova and in her party from the eighth finals against the Spanish Jenifer Fernández Romero, she convincingly won with a unanimous jury decision.
With Weheim, the last Dutch participant disappeared from the tournament.
Football players PSV without a chance at Rosenborg
8.05 pm: After the Champions League, the football players of PSV must also miss out on participation in the European Cup. In their first game with Rosenborg in the first preliminary round of the second European club tournament, the Norwegian women on their own field were clearly too strong with 3-0. Next week is the return in Eindhoven.
Rosenborg came in the lead in the 15th minute. Rebecka Holum was able to shoot from close by after the PSV defense defended sloppy. After more than an hour, the home team doubled the score. Now Ine Strømstad Berre tapped the ball from close by after again hesitant performance by the Eindhoven team in the back. Fifteen minutes before time, Oline Brekke Fuglem headed out of a corner.
In the second preliminary round of the Champions League, PSV was eliminated by Manchester United and therefore moved on to the qualifications for the European Cup. Ajax takes on Sturm Graz in the same tournament.
Olympic snowboard champion Anderson (34) back on the slopes
8 pm: Two -time Olympic snowboard champion Jamie Anderson makes her return after three and a half years. The 34-year-old American won gold in both the Games of Sochi (2014) and that of Pyeongchang (2018) in the Slopestyle section.
Anderson announced on Wednesday to participate in the World Cup competitions next winter, in the run -up to the Winter Games of Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Anderson stopped it in 2022. She focused on her family and now has two daughters. Barely half a year after the birth of her youngest daughter, she joined the American Snowboard team that is preparing for the World Cup in New Zealand. It starts in less than two months in China.
“I don’t know where it comes from, but I am super motivated,” Anderson said in a statement from the American skiing federation. “As always, I will trust and improvise on my intuition. It will probably be a chaos to travel with a family of four people, but I am looking forward to it.”