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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.”